“A generation shaped by Vietnam must remember the lessons of Vietnam: When America uses force in the world, the cause must be just, the goal must be clear, and the victory must be overwhelming.”
New Orleanian Blake Bailey reviews Julia Reed's Katrina Memoir, The House on First Street for the NYT:
As for Reed’s Katrina experience — well, strange to say, it made me rather nostalgic for my own. (I’m reminded of what Percy said about the weird gaiety of disaster.) Like Reed and her husband, my wife and I gave a dinner party the night before evacuation, and the next day we wondered what to do with the garbage...
Is Greater Than is a pretty cool online zine. I skim most of the articles, but this one hit a very special secret place in my heart. My heart that owns 52 lipsticks, each of which is a varying shade of one color:
But there is another, hidden allure to beauty products. That allure lies in the heady world of woman to woman bonding, a social phenomenon that often takes place in the context of beauty.
And I had a really really hard time picking a favorite children's book quilt:
Every teacher and pre-service teacher enrolled in Dr. Bergeron’s undergraduate and graduate Children’s Literature courses at the University of Miami makes a child-sized quilt-top inspired by a piece of quality children’s literature. Then, Dr. B quilts their projects and the quilts are displayed at the Lowe Art Museum.
I spent my weekend lost in the world of comic books and graphic novels (yes, I read those too).
Warren Ellis is just never afraid to go there. And it doesn't really matter what there we're talking about. Sometimes I feel it's a bit too much for my - ahem! - delicate sensibilities. Okay, mostly I just find it all a bit more depraved than I really need. Planetary, however, sucked me into a story where, while I may not understand completely what is going on, I am on this journey with Elijah Snow and the rest of Planetary to uncover the secret history of the world.
Minx is a girl-friendly division of DC comics that puts out digest-sized one-shots with girl-centric themes (and is there a way I could have had more hyphenated words in the previous sentence?). The reviews have been mixed overall, but the large variety of titles available (from comics heartthrobs such as Andi Watson, and Brian Wood, and YA girlcrush Cecil Castellucci) at least attempt to guarantee there might be something for everyone. So far I've read 4 of the offerings with mixed reviews of my own. Of course, DC could possibly...maybe increase their girl readership by, I don't know, dialing down the fanboy inspired cookie-cutter female body type? However, at least DC has a female superhero in their Big Three (that would be Batman, Supes, and Wonder Woman for those who don't care enough to ask). Marvel has....[crickets].
Hope everyone had a good weekend. Aside from reading comics, I gave myself a happy by (you guessed it) buying Hot Fuzz. Oh yeah. Oh, and watching an okay LOCI wherein I finally get used to The Beard, but wonder what the wardrobe department is trying to tell us by having Bobby wear that same striped shirt week after week.
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Ah, comics. It's ages since I read one.
That part of your heart that owns 52 lipsticks of the same shade should have coffee with the part of my heart that owns 24 eyeshadows that are all varieties of brown. I think I'm going to like that zine.
The beginning paragraph of this made me laugh. Though I must admit it's hard to go through everyday life and NOT constantly be reminded.
I made a color chart on index cards to keep track of my nail polish.
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