Dear M.,
I just ate two tamales happily microwaved into melty Trader Joe’s delight, and feel fortified to write what I was going to originally try to work into my earlier post. On one of my recent library scavenging hunts, I picked up Norman Mailer’s The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing. I read it yesterday while [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Firecrackers’
The Bitch
Posted in Booooks, tagged Firecrackers, writing, boys and girls, Norman Mailer, machismo, the manfeat of it all on September 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Canada, Oh
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Canada, Firecrackers, Maissonneuve, Netflix wonders, Slings and Arrows, TV my love on September 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dear Millicent,
Let’s move to Canada. Why? While the healthcare will be nice, and we’ll have the seasons, they will be extras. The real benefit will be good television, radio, and publishing. It seems as if in Canada the arts not only matter, but they are inclusive.
My ridiculous proof for this is a TV show that [...]
Susan Boyle’s Got Balls
Posted in Spectacles, Uncategorized, tagged audience, Firecrackers, Milton, Susan Boyle, writing on April 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Dear CF,
Tonight I give you the contrarian Snuggie of blanket statements, so general it comes with sleeves:
Men are better at demanding an audience. BUT—if an audience is supplied (in teaching, say)—women go to greater lengths to please.
That is to say, I think you (and the MLA) are onto something: it’s easier to respond to a [...]
On Flirting: The Meeting of Eyes and Ayes and Is: Part I–Theory
Posted in Experiments, Uncategorized, tagged boys and girls, experiment, eyes, fantasy, Figleaf, Firecrackers, flirting, penis, sex, vagina on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dear CF,
So enjoyed your last few posts which–as it happens–coincide with what I wanted to write you about anyway: flirting. I’ve conducted a smallish experiment and am eager to share the results with you.
But first, let me agree wholeheartedly with your assessment of the sexes’ attitudes toward pizzle and cooch instrumentality. Yes! Having read figleaf [...]
Turkey Is In, No Shit
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Firecrackers, Goop, Gwyneth Paltrow, Thanksgiving, The Hater In Me on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dear Millicent,
I am sure you are familiar now with Gwyneth Paltrow’s pet project Goop, and the amount of vitriol it has inspired. Jezebel covers its absurdities quite well. Today, Gwynnie was vomitous in a helpful way: she offered a perfect example of a particular kind of annoyance that was mentioned in our earlier conversations of [...]
Schizophrenia, Hyper-Mentalism, and the Happy Puppet
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged autism, axes, Badcock, battle of the sexes, Crespi, David Foster Wallace, Fate, Firecrackers, happy puppet, hyper-mentalism, hypo-mentalism, Nature, neuroscience, psychotic spectrum, schizophrenia, the selfish gene, vagina-envy, work on September 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Couldn’t stop thinking about it.
What to make of the Firecracker’s attraction to schizophrenia as a word and lifestyle, and why did it become the writer-singer-songwriter’s passport into a different kind of world? Schizophrenia, after all, goes beyond the mere desire for altered states of mind. Yeah, Coleridge loved opium, but this exceeds drugs, hallucinations, trumps [...]
Madwomen in the Attic, Madmen in the Garage
Posted in Booooks, Uncategorized, tagged David Foster Wallace, Firecrackers, hysteria, Mad Men, Madmen, madness, madwomen, RIP, schizophrenia, vibrators, yellow wallpaper on September 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dearest Carla Fran,
I can’t help wondering if the “sensual pleasures” the ladies received as a result of their chocolate and eggs are the subject of the “grateful confidences” that gratify the Professor’s ears. It puts me in mind of the “traditional” cures for female hysteria in the 19th century, and the peculiar forms therapy [...]
The Post-Mortem
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged art, authenticity, Calvinism, crush, Firecrackers, hipsters, Juno, loveship hateship courtship marriage, Napoleon Dynamite, pretension, salt on September 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dear one,
How to explain the death of a powerful crush? Curiously enough (or not curiously at all), I too talked to a beloved mutual friend about firecrackers, only in a romantical connection—-namely, the problem of love/hating them.
The Firecracker (Male) is exciting. He takes you to unexpected places and shows a different way [...]