that this morning's mla on arthurian legends was not (if i had read closely) a presentation, but rather a roundtable? a roundtable!!!

oh, the synchrony!

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saw the poster and then the trailer the other day for a new black & white foreign period piece called the artist and the model.

i imagine next year we'll see a black & white foreign period piece called the artist and the model and the general. and the following year the artist and the model and the general and his wife and her lover. and so on, ad

"i think that there are moments where you can see the world turning from what it is into what it will be. for me, the new york world's fair is such a moment. it is a compass rose pointing in all directions, toward imaginary future and real past, false future and immutable present, a world of tomorrow contained in the lost american yesterday ( Read more... )

so i was at the grocery store last night, and although i didn't have an urgent need to buy tissues, there was an in-store cross-brand discount promotion (spend x, save y) that included kleenex. kleenex usually has some unique boxes, so i checked the selection and found a lone square box covered in fantastic owls and cursive (i was thorough, it was ( Read more... )