Hey, Philadelphian readers — anyone else going to hear Tempesta di Mare‘s concert this weekend? (Here’s the notice about it that caught my attention.) Barring any unforeseen circumstances, I’m planning on going to the Saturday night concert at St. Mark’s. C’mon, it’s free! And speaking of music in churches, perhaps this is the result of […]
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The stack of readings and assignments I have due tomorrow and Thursday? Done, all but for the last five or so pages of a chapter from Thomas Mann’s* Library Research Models that I didn’t quite finish on the train. (I’m finding it surprisingly engrossing. The bit I was reading on the train elucidated why encyclopedias […]
I wish I were in London so I could see the British Library’s London: A Life in Maps exhibit. But the site they’ve created for it is well worth a visit even if you can’t be there in the flesh. I especially like the way they’ve linked their images to a Google map of present-day […]
My classes this quarter are Information Resources & Services II and Professional and Social Aspects of Information Services. I’d heard good things about the latter last term, and now I see why. The professor uses the mildly terrifying pedagogical device of randomly choosing four class members to stand up and talk for a few minutes […]
… if it weren’t late, and I hadn’t just gotten home from class, and I didn’t have to get up early tomorrow morning: The first two weeks of the winter term, and why my classes are shaping up to be really good Pan’s Labyrinth, which I finally saw and highly recommend An idea I had […]
Because I’ve got a bit of writer’s block today, here’s another poem from the commonplace book. Some years ago, a friend who shared my fondness for Frank O’Hara’s poems pointed this one out to me. "It’s really kind of a perfect poem, don’t you think?" she said, and I read it and had to agree. […]
I didn’t realize it was National De-Lurking Week until today. (It’s the first week of Drexel’s winter term, and I had classes tonight and yesterday night. Consider this post a stand-in for the writing I’d be doing if I weren’t also printing out articles and scrambling for textbooks.) So, those of you who’ve been lurking, […]
It was freakishly warm all day yesterday, up to near 70 in the afternoon, which, in Philadelphia in January, just seems wrong. I could feel the rational part of my brain, the part that says "Something is seriously out of whack with our climate, even if we can blame this particular winter on El Niño," […]
Wow, after what seemed like a long cinematic drought, there are suddenly lots of movies I want to see. I caught Volver on my last day of vacation; though I wouldn’t quite put it among my all-time favorite Almodóvar films (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, All About My Mother, Bad Education), I […]
I have an idea for a short story, but if I wrote it, it would probably turn out as a really lame ripoff of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere. Plus I can’t think of a plot. So I’m hereby offering it up to anyone who wants to have a go at it, if anyone reading this is […]