January 2010
46 posts
December 2009
67 posts
Watchkatherine:
Interesting set of interviews on Flannery O’Connor sent to me by a bookish friend.
Love her!
“I love you.
I love you more than you love me.
I love you more than you love...”
– my boyfriend, tonight (he can always lift my spirits)
WatchA great short. ’Three and a Half Thoughts’ by Khary Jones
Description:
After a disastrous date with his childhood friend and would-be girlfriend, Red Caldwell decides to escape his miseries by smoking a joint. Red is swiftly carried away from the painful memories of the evening but soon learns that escapism is not without its consequences. Adapted from Chester Himes’s early...
“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via rememo) (via sophiejade) (via thousandflowerettes) (via libraryland)
“And we thank You that darkness reminds us of light.
O Light Invisible, we give...”
“What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?...”
– Harlem - Langston Hughes, 1943 (via sexismandthecity)
This was my favorite poem and poet as a kid. Had this posted on my wall for years. I’m just now realizing this was probably unusual behavior for a 9-year-old white kid from Florida.
(via libraryland)
“When Americans talk about progress they mean “how fast I become white” … but...”
–
James Baldwin
Politics 101
queenorchidaceae:
somethingintellectual:
FEUDALISM: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.
PURE SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else’s cows. You have to take care of all of the cows. The government gives you as much milk as you need.
BUREAUCRATIC SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and put them in...
interrobangag:
Sara Bareilles and Ingrid...
8 Awesome Books By Women: An '00s Virtual... →
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via anditslove)
Before You Came
Before you came, things were as they should be: the sky was the dead-end of sight, the road was just a road, wine merely wine.
Now everything is like my heart, a color at the edge of blood: the grey of your absence, the color of poison, of thorns, the gold when we meet, the season ablaze, the yellow of autumn, the red of flowers, of flames, and the black when you cover the earth with the coal of...
WatchI met Whitehead earlier this year, and I am officially in love with him. I mean, have you read The Intuitionist? Check out his diagrams of in-verbs starting around minute 5.
You're Invited
Any DC Tumblrs should head down to the Smithsonian African Art Museum for the graduate student symposium “Locating Yinka Shonibare MBE” this Saturday from 11am-4pm. I’m interning at the museum through March and I’m so excited about all of the upcoming events scheduled. Stay tuned for the African Art Book Club selections and a double feature film event with New Wavists...
African Art Book Club - Pick No. 1
Earlier this month (Dec. 1) the African Art Book Club met to talk about Uwem Akpan’s Say You’re One of Them (2008). Here’s a brief description of the book:
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Each story in this acclaimed collection pays testament to the wisdom and resilience of children, even in the face of the most agonizing circumstances. A family living in a makeshift shanty in urban Kenya scurries to...
“I am half sick of shadows”
– Lady of Shalott (via Tennyson)
They're/Their/There.
blissed:
Not hard.
Two/To/Too.
Also not hard.
