This week’s question, tersely fished from the mind of The Wonderful Mojave66: What were your five favorite classes in College (or in the highest educational institution you completed), and why? This, for some people, might be an easy question. Most of my friends in college seemed not to like many of their classes. For me, though, it’s a tough one. Five years of undergrad, two more years of grad school coursework, and in general, I found I enjoyed more classes than I disliked. I suppose it’s like for some people who get asked, “What are your five favorite books?” It’s …
Month: July 2004
Metrosexual Politics? and Running Mates, Literally…
I think this whole “metrosexual” thing happened after I left North America; I spent my last few years there cloistered deep in academia, but it was literary academia and I’m sure someone would have mentioned this at the first available namedrop of Eve Kosofsky Sedwick. But I can’t recall hearing the term till after I’d come to Korea. Anyway, I’m quite sure that many Americans will cringe or get riled up seeing this, but I found Parag Khanna’s article, “The Metrosexual Superpower”, pretty interesting. According to Michael Flocker’s 2003 bestseller, The Metrosexual Guide to Style: A Handbook for the Modern …
Potato Slices on My Shoulders. And They’re Not Falling Off. (Thin Sliced. )
Well, having arrived back in Korea a week ago, having noted the slight growth of my gut, having that weird uneasy feeling of laziness begin to creep into the whole of my body, I have been making an effort to get back into some kind of better shape than I am… Why I have thin-sliced pieces of potato on my shoulders, well, that’ll all be clear in a bit. Bear with me. So I began to cycle, a few days ago. It was inevitable, really. As soon as the heavy rains stopped, it was just a matter of time and …
Where I’ve Been So Far
In my opinion, this is far from enough. create your own visited country map or write about it on the open travel guide I’m only counting places I remember. Having been born in Malawi, or been carried through Europe as an infant, doesn’t count, to my mind.
Finally, Honest Political Verse
A very biting sestina: John Ashcroft and Tom Delay Pretty Much Suck Ass via Blog of a Bookslut.