"Puppet wrangler? There weren't any puppets in this movie!" – Crow T. Robot
The New York Times on the Olsen twins:
Skinny girls with blank expressions and seemingly little inclination to speak have fascinated American culture for so long that their proliferation now, in magazines like Us Weekly and In Touch and shows like “The Hills,†seems less a modern scourge than a historic inevitability.
Last week. This week:
Same as it ever was. Good luck!
I’m actually enjoying these old episodes of Doctor Who. (I’m currently listening to the commentary on the “Arc of Infinity” DVD, of all things.) But the fact that a lot of the episodes just aren’t readily available for rent or online — there was a massive YouTube purge a month or two ago — is really sort of annoying.
“Art is opposed to nothing but falsity.” – Paul Auster
Now, I look at this essay (PDF) I wrote in my senior of college, ostensibly about Paul Auster’s novel Leviathan, and I see a few decent ideas comically overwritten — and, in at least one instance, cribbed from work I was doing in another class that semester — but what I don’t see is a truly in-depth analysis of the novel, much less anything that somebody would want to use as a teaching aid for the book.
And yet apparently somebody wants to. An English teacher in Paris (and fellow Penn State alum) sent me an message through Facebook, asking if he could use my text in some of his questions to his students, who are now reading Auster’s book. And while I’m still dubious about the whole thing, I’m happy to let them get whatever they can out of it.
I’m tempted to re-read Auster’s novel. (After reading his latest a few weeks ago, I could use a reminder of a time when he was good.)
Aquatic leeches aim for hidden pockets and crevices: dip your head into leech-infested waters, and the segmented, toothy worms may slip up your nostrils and make a home of your nose.