I steer clear of any novel that gets billed as a “meditation.” I’ve seen “moving meditation,” “elegiac meditation,” even “angry meditation.” To me, this is code for: Run! There’s no story!
Chance, to me, had a kind of absolute logic to it. I revered it more than I did actual logic, the kind that was built from solid materials, from reason and from fact. Anything could be reasoned into being, or reasoned away, with words, desires, rationales. Chance shaped things in a way that words, desires, rationales could not. Chance came blowing in, like a gust of wind.
— Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers.
darienlibrary replied to your post: Every Friday afternoon the library screens a movie…
I played Wanderlust for our patrons almost a year ago and I still get complaints. Movie they loved though : MIDNIGHT IN PARIS.
Every Friday afternoon the library screens a movie in it’s auditorium for seniors. My coworker, who selects the film for each week, just sent out an email noting that not many “good movies” are scheduled to be released on DVD this July, and asked if anyone had recommendations. It would be a great idea if I suggested he show the senior citizens Spring Breakers, right?
I feel changed. Like, say my mind is a sweater. And a loose thread gets tugged at, pulled and pulled until the sweater unravels and there’s only a big fluffy pile of yarn. You can make something with it, that big pile of yarn, but it will never be a sweater again. That’s the state of things.
— Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers.
Some A+ hockey from the Islanders tonight. I haven’t been this excited about a team since the 2006 Dillon Panthers.
Even though it’s playoff hockey time, I am in fact still reading stuff. Mainly during commercial breaks.
I’m excited to share a little iOS game I made called Dots. Let me know what you think. <3
Grab it here: http://nerdyoctopus.com/dots
Guys, this is my new favorite game. Just spent my whole lunch break playing it instead of reading the book I was planning to start.
Well, everything is always complicated, and I’m not here to turn you off critical thought. Follow the money, if that’s your deal. Sometimes, though, it’s worth spending a little more time with the basic thing that just happened before you go squiggling off into the stratosphere. An NBA player just came out. If that’s not brave, why hasn’t it happened before now? To me, the most moving detail in Collins’s essay was that he wore no. 98 this season in honor of Matthew Shepard, the gay University of Wyoming student who was tortured and killed in 1998. This was a private symbolic act carried out in public. It suggests both that Collins has been thinking about what gay kids go through in America and that he spent this season getting his mind ready for this moment. In other words, whatever your angle vis-à-vis complex media metanarratives, Jason Collins is a person, and he just did something that was hard for him to do, and that thing will help other people. That’s what matters here. That’s what happened. You don’t have to have a Nike campaign to be brave. Be proud of the guy. Be happy.
Cat Barometer: I can tell how warm it is outside by how long my cat is, and the humidity by his fluffiness.
Today: 70s, dry.
Someone please translate this idea into a Weather Cat app for my iPhone.
Grabbed some Blue Bottle between program sessions, because if I’m going to a library conference in San Francisco, I’m going to do it with good coffee.
