Monthly Archives: February 2011

One reason to say something out loud is to start seeing it everywhere. Had a conversation with Jacqueline Waters a month or so ago that enters my mind most days.  One of the many things we talked about was the … Continue reading →

Tomatoes, garlic. I struggle with whether to get close to people here. If it were about figures in a landscape. Want to stay at arm’s length. The neck tattoo on a sun-burned neck reading ‘redneck.’ It’s the echo in my … Continue reading →

Having no time, dreaming letters and posts in the hall: 1 – Post about A Megaphone 2 – Post about A Megaphone, The H.D. Book, and the hidden as the “boringly obvious.” Why we need to say obvious things.  Ask … Continue reading →

The Brunini* Family Recipe INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE (found with fruit cake) This is not a fruit cake.  Do not serve this cake to people who like fruit cake – they may be disappointed and fail to appreciate it.  Do not … Continue reading →

At the Labor Day event, Lara Durback gave me a copy of her ZINECHAPBOOK. At the event, we were trying to learn how to talk about, as the organizers put it, “our struggle to do two jobs, that is, make … Continue reading →

“Pervading Benjamin’s writing about history is an awareness of the all-too-human propensity to forget the past and in so doing to look away from the truth of oneself; to be fascinated by the image of a symbolic other that is … Continue reading →