I spent the last week or so reading Howling Near Heaven: Twyla Tharp and the Reinvention of Modern Dance, by Marcia B. Siegal. Not that I'm a dancer. (I did want to be one when I was young, but when you live out in the middle of nowhere, and it's the 1960s, dance lessons are nowhere to be found.) For a while now, though, I've been interested in ( Read more... )

As Vermont follows the wettest July on record with an attempt to be even damper in August, I found this in Sherman Alexie's "Sixty-One Things I Learned During the Sonics' Trial"

53. Do you know why Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

Anyone out there want to join me in dancing until the sun shines ( Read more... )