It’s here! Yay! #AcademicTarot @CoyoteAndBones
🔖 The Power of German Playwright Bertholt Brecht’s V-Effekt: Oliver Mayer discusses the connection between the January 6 insurrection and Brecht’s work with alienation.
🔖 What’s Behind the Label ‘Domestic Fiction‘?: Soledad Fox Maura writes about why we need to reconsider genre.
🔖 An old piece that the Rec Center brought to my attention: How Writing Fanfic Introduced Me To Myself.
I’ve been feeling the need to do some fun, low-pressure writing. Fic may be just the thing.
Finished reading: Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual by Michael Pollan 📚
📺 Ugh, Dr. Pulaski is the worst. 🖖
🔖 I continue to be proud of my city: Durham Moves to Protect Residents Against Natural Hair Discrimination
Want to read: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein 📚
Finished reading: In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan 📚
Putting the person back in my personal website
I kind of want to put the person back in my personal website. Not that it isn’t personal - especially my short little notes. But I’ve been thinking about this like it was A Blog, not My Blog, and it’s not a great feeling. So I do have this sort of voice in my head for Important Blog PostsTM with titles like
“My kid isn’t going to be at my dissertation defense and that makes me sad”
or
“Transformations and transitions: How my thinking is changing.”
And these are interesting things that I do want to talk about, but I don’t need to use an authoritative voice to talk about them.
Back in December I set out to get back to a freer form of blogging and then December exploded on my face in a mess that is only now really beginning to be cleaned up.
I’m hoping to change that now.
What are you up to today? I went to a SILS virtual craft circle, which was great; I’m going to have two of those a week in my life now, on Thursdays and Fridays, and I think it’s very good.
I showed my kid the first ever episode of Sesame Street. (It’s on HBO Max.) Bob was so young in 1969, y’all! Of course, many people were - my parents were teens. It’s a really solid pilot; there are some good gags. I think it’s easy to forget how funny Sesame Street can be if you haven’t watched it in a while, but it’s really good. I’ve blogged before about how it makes a great comedy school, and that was true even in the pilot.
I’ve had a migraine that waxes and wanes for over a week now. It’s not good. I think it’s a hormonal thing.
There are too many books to read.
I think that’s enough stream of consciousness for now.
And now to finish, a GIF that features two of my imaginary friends: Kermit the Frog and Levar Burton.