M. T. Anderson

Oh my god this has happened to me and as a fellow childless person let me say I feel what you say here. I feel for the parents but I feel for my lumbar region even more.

My nonfiction book on Russia/Shostakovich was plagued with this problem. God bless the staff at Candlewick Press who rolled up their sleeves with me to find reasonably-priced versions of those incredible images!

I now always always fly with silicon earplugs in my ears and noise canceling headphones over them.

Baudrillard was always ripe for this kind of thing.

Spotted in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood

Two murders, right next to the Vermont Supreme Court the other night.

Every Republican president since I have become an adult has said we need no more wars in the Middle East. Every one has started one. And each of those wars has had a heavy economic, diplomatic, and human toll.

Oddly enough, a quondam editor at Candlewick Press had a husband who invented a machine that would raise cows up after tipping (or simply falling over because of sickness). She said the tipping would damage internal organs and was not a good prank.

Amen.

With you there. I love all of God’s creatures except apparently the ones with >8 legs.

That Kurtag is some good insomnia music, except it needs to go on for another three hours. Maybe Feldman’s Triadic Memories?

Bravo, Spain!

Life right now.