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Vanishing Point: Don Draper and the Desert of the “Real Thing” | uncomplicatedly
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Vanishing Point: Don Draper and the Desert of the “Real Thing”. May 19, 2015 at 8:23 pm Posted in no-self. Smile, smile, smile . . . Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth. – Jean Baudrillard,. Series finale opened with an unexpected sequence of images: a dry lakebed, a car zooming by, and Don in dusty goggles behind the wheel. “We just. I now believe that Don left the room at McCann not because he. Know someone is individually — person to person,” to invoke the epis...You are c...
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Shirley Jackson’s Unsettling Freedom | uncomplicatedly
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Shirley Jackson’s Unsettling Freedom. June 27, 2014 at 3:37 pm Posted in fiction. In October, I decided on a whim to read Shirley Jackson’s. The Haunting of Hill House. 1959): because it was “in my period” (20th century American), because it was written by a woman, and because it seemed appropriately “Halloweeny.” Since then I’ve been on a minor streak: a few months ago I read. We Have Always Lived in the Castle. 1963), and I’ve just finished. The Haunting of Hill House,. In particular provoked shocks of...
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Revisionist Tragedy: Luhrmann’s Gatsby and the Knight of Faith | uncomplicatedly
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Revisionist Tragedy: Luhrmann’s Gatsby and the Knight of Faith. May 18, 2013 at 11:52 am Posted in fiction. I liked Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby. As he climbs hopeful and starry-eyed up the pool ladder, only to be shot in the back and to fall backwards in stunned slow motion. After he’s dead it’s revealed that it was only Nick on the phone, worried about Gatsby. It had been a long time since I’d last read The Great Gatsby. This is nearly the opposite of the scene in the movie — not only does no ...
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The Blank Caught Fire | uncomplicatedly
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The Blank Caught Fire. August 7, 2013 at 11:40 am Posted in personal. I realized this morning that I haven’t yet told this blog about my new online poetry project,. The Blank Caught Fire. It started in April as a National Poetry Month project, and after succeeding at writing 30 poems in 30 days (! I’ve been continuing it at a more leisurely pace. It’s a collage poetry project, where my source material is my partner’s current online writing project,. The Blank Caught Fire. Is based on a single page of.
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“I Don’t Know When You Are Going to Read This”: A Love Letter to My Love Letters | uncomplicatedly
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I Don’t Know When You Are Going to Read This : A Love Letter to My Love Letters. June 19, 2014 at 10:59 am Posted in love. Friends, we are so lucky to be loved. Let me be clear: I am engaged to be married to the man without whom I could not imagine myself. It’s not that we finish each other’s sentences, it’s that together we form whole thoughts and concepts that are bigger and better and funnier and crazier than anything either of us could have come up with alone. There is an episode of. Kids these days ...
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Closing Time: Reflections on the Broadway Diner | uncomplicatedly
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Closing Time: Reflections on the Broadway Diner. July 21, 2014 at 1:28 pm Posted in love. This morning, the town of Red Bank, NJ, and everyone who grew up in or near there woke up to the news that the Broadway Diner had closed. Well, my time went so quickly, I went lickety-splitly. Out to my ol’ ’55. Pulled away slowly, feelin’ so holy. God knows I was feelin’ alive. And now the sun’s comin’ up. I’m ridin’ with Lady Luck. Freeway cars and trucks. Stars beginning to fade. And I lead the parade. There̵...
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JC!: September 2006
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The fact that I suck at research means that I'm pretty much guaranteed to be a shitty/useless librarian. If any of you actual students out there can find something of use, let me know. I'm freaking out way too much about this dumb paper. My streak of bizarre good luck continues! 1 Find copy of Final Fantasy VII for $4 at Half-Price Books. Someone bought my game for $85. Now I totally have a game budget! Good thing, too, because there is, of course, a lot of excellent stuff coming out. Okami,.
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JC!: July 2006
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Going to NY for a week. For a real vacation; couple of days in the city and then some days in West Oneonta visiting Mary's grandmother. Rad. Gonna do some stuff. May not include internet. Takin' mah powers away. Was probably porn for the guy who created/starred in it, but for the rest of us non-insane people, it's just another hilariously awkward, stilted YouTube video. There's no nudity or anything, but it would be humiliating to be caught watching this anyway. Updated 01.something.2007. So I got a job.
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JC!: February 2006
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I thought that my two-letter name would only generate boring results on the Cyborg Name Decoder. Linked to, but I was spectacularly wrong. Check this shit out:. I was going to say that this thing reminded me a whole lot of a similar item I saw on The Brunching Shuttlecocks. Back when we fashioned internets out of mud and sticks, but a look at the Brunching home page reveals this decoder to be the work of the very same Lore. Responsible for much of that site's content. How nostalgic! I mean, I'm not as mu...
