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What are you Reading? -July
Jul 26th
With all the traveling, I’ve been able to finally devour some of the books that have been on my reading list for forever. Below are my most recent picks.
I was assigned Treat Me Like Dirt to review for VenusZine, otherwise I’m not sure I would have picked it up. I’m not a big music reader, and fantastically, this book is anything but. It covers the history of Toronto punk through oral tellings, so you can taste the grit of the streets and the characters of the people are so over-the-top but still feel real. I interviewed Liz Worth for VenusZine.com if you want more info.
My caffeine-inclined barista friend, Sarah, has been trying to push Box Office Poison on me for some time. I finally had a chance to get to it, and absolutely loved it. The story of post-college life in NYC in the late 90’s, it’s as much a time capsule as it is the same story of self-reflection, loathing, and love that is universal.
I read Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
a few years ago and really enjoyed Mary Roach’s research style with her running tangents, footnotes with personal observations, and of course the actual subject matter. So I have been meaning to get to her next work, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Sex and Science. I’m still in the beginning of it, but thus far it is as engaging as Stiff even if it is a little more self-involved (she frequently is roped in as a subject for sexual studies, and I find her own neuroses about them less entertaining than irritating). Her examination of the studies and evolution of sexual science though is so much fun.
To add some weight to my fluffy summer list, I’ve started another longstanding untouched book on my shelf, White Noise. I don’t read a lot of literary fiction like I used to, so it’s nice to get back into the deep end of the pool. White Noise is truly a superb work of fiction, darkly funny, quietly tragic, and slightly outlandish in an ordinary way. Again a piece that is as applicable today as it was when it was published in the 1980s.
What’s on your summer reading list?
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Words with Weight – July 19th 2010
Jul 19th
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” – Roald Dahl
This is my new mantra. Whenever I feel down or overworked or worst of all, Bored, I have this pasted on my mirror to remind myself to look for magic in my life. When I do, I always find it.
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Words with Weight -February 10th
Feb 10th
I’m so busy trying to tie up thing at work today before my Ice Hotel trip, so this is our first guest post for Words with Weight sent in by JoDee Jetton
Two quotes-
#1- lives over my desk – every desk – I’ve moved it countless times – it is my most favorite an oldie but a goodie
“Talent is a long patience, And originality an effort of will, and intense observation”- Flaubert- ahhh… the French gotta love ‘em.
#2- even older- but pretty cool – I keep this one in sight and it is often scrawled on my bathroom mirror in wipe off marker- my favorite method to place words to live by in my face- this is such fun ’cause it’s in Latin- and its always cool what people think it means- and what interesting character observations can be drawn from what folks will tell you . “Vocatus
Atque Non
Vocatus
Deus A Derit” Translation = Bidden or not God ( insert Goddess, Gaia, Supreme being, Great Spirit, deity of your choice here) is Present- kind of appropriate – for this time of year – Santas’ watching- so be good for goodness sake- I kind of think of it as the “mean people suck” of philosophy, so be nice Dammit!.
And lastly my word tattoo- I know in the very cool book I saw on this subject Kanjis were discounted as literary- but mine has a pretty cool meaning- My sister was living in Malaysia- she is 10 yrs older than me – and we are pretty close- especially after my Mom passed away- I wanted a tat forever – but it’s that commitment thing- and I wanted something that would be a forever kind of statement- sooooo – probably the most important relationship in my life is with my Sister- she had a calligrapher friend in Malaysia draw up the Chinese characters for sister- always doubled since sisters in of itself means two- one older one younger- over the character for love which is how the word is written- when she was home for a visit- we took the work to a very cool shop in Denver on south Broadway called the Ink Tank- and we had them done, mine on the outside of my right ankle and hers on the outside of her left ankle – so when we’re walking down the street you can see each of ours- oh and by the way – my Chinese medicine Doctor saw it and smiled- I didn’t tell her what it meant but asked if she could read it to me- wanted to make sure it didn’t say – stoopid white girl- and she smiled at me, my sweet cultural revolution surviving acupuncturist Auntie- and said- ” It means you and your sister love each other very much” – perfect- love your blog- digg it with the biggest shovel ever- William Burroughs said language is virus ans we only exisit to pass it on – words the only way we change the world.
Send us your words and stories.
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Words with Weight – December 6th
Dec 6th
via Norma Desmond
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
Anais Nin
I know a lot of people who were laid off this week, especially in the news and media world. If you are one, know that you much loved and that perhaps now is the time to spread your wings and do things you never could have done before. I am sorry for your pain and loss so close to the holidays, and wish I could bake a dozen snicker doodles for all of you. Please accept my internet hugs.
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Words with Weight -November 20th
Nov 20th
Words with Weight -November 11th
Nov 11th
“Who told you there was no such thing as real, true, eternal love? Cut out his lying tongue!”
-Mikhail Bulgakov from possibly my absolute favorite book, Master and Margarita.
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Words with Weight -October 28th
Oct 28th
“To have ideas is to gather flowers. To think is to weave them into garlands.”
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Words with Weight -October 16
Oct 16th
“Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.”
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