This is a poem I wrote for my Animating the Cyborg class. The premise is taken from a really great book we are reading in class called, Evocative Objects: Things We Think With by Sherry Turkle. The book is a compilation of essays that illuminate peoples connections to everyday objects, how certain material things can become extensions of ourselves ( Read more... )

I would like to watch you sleeping ( Read more... )

Harper: In your experience of the world. How do people change?

Mormon Mother: Well it has something to do with God so it's not very nice. God splits the skin with a jagged thumbnail from throat to belly and then plunges a huge filthy hand in, he grabs hold of your bloody tubes and they slip to evade his grasp but he squeezes hard, he insists, he ( Read more... )

Hello all ( Read more... )

PBS is airing another part of their series America at a Crossroads tomorrow about Muslim Comedians in Post 9/11 America called Stand Up: Muslim American Comics Come of Age.

Check out the website. It has a bunch of clips from the comedians. Their stories are amazing. One of the women, on top of being Muslim, also has cerebal palsey and founded a ( Read more... )

Reading Period officially ended at mid-night and as another year drew to a close, I completely the ritual by attending Cram-Jam Midnight Breakfast where I was served powdered eggs and overly seasoned hash browns by the president of the Colleges. I then promptly ran straight to the bathroom.

DROWNING. that is what I'm doing. I need to write at least ( Read more... )

Soooo incredibly funny.

Some great quotes:

IRON MAN: I love the nightlife...BATMAN: I AM the nightlife.

IRON MAN: I give people the impression I'm a jerk. BATMAN: I give people panic attacks.

BATMAN: Cause the kids these days looove existentialism.

go watch it.

Re-watching the pilot episode of Buffy for like the bazillionth time. I love the way vampires just turn to dust. It's so... convenient. Well, probably not for the digital effects team, but I mean in real life... I mean in the Buffyverse.

Ah the Buffyverse. How I have missed you!

Buffy was one of the shows that gave me messed up ideas about what high ( Read more... )

Only When I am Quiet and Do Not Speak
Only when I am quiet for a long time
and do not speak
do the objects of my life draw near.
Shy, the scissors and spoons, the blue mug.
Hesitant even the towels,
for all their intimate knowledge and scent of
fresh bleach.
How steady their regard as they ponder,
dreaming and waking,
the entrancement of my daily ( Read more... )

Introductions are the only part of a paper that really kick my ass. I can't really start work on a paper until I have a decent intro. It needs to be catchy. It needs to have an angle. Fuck the reader- I am the one that needs to be drawn in by my intro, or else the rest of the paper doesn't get written ( Read more... )