1. Dear my students: the question about “which movement is this song associated with” was referring to a social movement. Therefore the answer is not “the movement of swaying your hips.”
2. Dear American Cinematheque: Thank you for having a Valentine’s day double bill of Baz Luhrmann films about how if you fall in love, things become horrible and then you die (poison or the consumption, your choice), which is basically consistent with my worldview these days.
3. Remember in Anne of Green Gables when Ruby Gillis had the consumption and everybody talked about how beautiful it made her and I was eleven years old and had never heard of the consumption before and didn’t know what Lucy Maud was talking about? Actually, I think it was in Anne of the Island. Anyhow, I think of Ruby Gillis every time someone dies of the consumption.
4. So Sam and I are doing this thing where we are only going to eat fresh fruits and vegetables for an entire week (STOP LAUGHING AT ME, I KNOW YOU’RE LAUGHING AT ME) because we think it will make us feel better and healthier, and I am personally hoping it makes me feel less depressed as fuck all the time. So basically we are having a week without carbs and dairy and unnecessary sugar. So, of course, today I went to Cafe Audrey to drink tea and grade midterms and this dude sits at the table beside me and proceeds to consume (and I am not even kidding) buttered bread with french fries on it. “Would you like a fry?” he said. “No thanks,” I replied, and my heart wept, for my heart loves carbs.
5. This is mostly of interest to Tanya: Apparently there is this goth bar in Downtown LA that has mod night on Thursdays? So, like mod goth night? Or goth mod night? It sounds…important.
6. Because of a conversation I had today, I’ve been thinking a lot about these things and these things, and about how I don’t understand the impulse to lie and to hurt people. It’s frustrating. It’s even more frustrating when people just get away with it.
7. Because of the Oscars (seriously) my bus stop up near the Egyptian was moved from its normal, well-lit corner to a sketchy, scary corner. Please join me in boycotting the Academy Awards to protest this injustice (not that I was going to watch them anyhow).
8. I am 25 years old and I have never owned my own car and this realization makes me feel kind of inadequate, even though I don’t even want a car. What I really want is, like, a unicorn.
9. This is my 600th blog post! Only 66 more until I have the blog of the beast. I think I will celebrate that momentous occasion by drinking red wine out of a teacup and then falling asleep in front of a rerun of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
happy 600th blog post!!
Eating only fruit + veggies is great, I promise! Make roasted root vegetables! And just put avocado on top of everything. Avocado is like butter, it makes everything better. You can also make spaghetti out of spaghetti squash. Like, seriously.
a unicorn pony?