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| Monday, January 18th, 2010 | | 7:59 pm |
edible resolution
Instead of making new year's resolutions this year, I made a list of Things I Want To Learn To Cook. Including: -A Proper Omelette -souffles both sweet and savory -homemade pasta -Impressive Crepes; again, both in sweet and savory renditions -butternut squash soup -Vegan Soul Food - e.g. tasty preparations of collards; chicken-fried-seitan-steak; good usages of black-eyed peas; successful gravy -more and diverse breads, such as: bagels, croissants, challah, & pizza dough -curry from scratch -cheesecake - classic New York style for starters, possible followed by exciting variations (but limited by the amount of cheesecake I and my comrades can actually metabolize) -A Delicious Macaroni & Cheese and a Similarly Delicious Vegan Analogue -Matzo Ball Soup -Useful Sauces, including but not limited to: pesto, mole, white sauce/alfredo, & hollandaise Lately, I have made: Punk Rock Chickpea Gravy (Black-River-Cafe-esque) Tempeh Bacon Homemade-from-scratch Gnocchi with Homemade-from-scratch Pesto Pain Ordinaire Careme Those first three were under the guidance of the illustrious Isa Chandra Maskowitz's Vegan with a Vengeance; the fourth following Bernard Clayton's New Complete Book of Breads. Also, they are all vegan. tips? necessary additions? advice for adapting the Wisdom of OSCA to dishes I can actually serve at parties? | | Monday, January 4th, 2010 | | 9:51 pm |
bookaweek
I have been working on a private project of reading A Book (Of Some Kind) A Week since graduation, and narrowly overshot my goal, reading 32 books in the latter 31 weeks of 2009. here they are, with asterisks for the ones I really really liked and (r) on the ones that were rereads: 1. Matilda - Roald Dahl (r) 2. The Kiss of the Spider Woman - Manuel Puig 3. The Corrections - Jonathon Frazen 4. Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson 5. Jazz * - Toni Morrison 6. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight In Heaven - Sherman Alexie 7. Desert Solitaire - Edward Abbey 8. The Bluest Eye (r) - Toni Morrison 9. The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan 10. It's So You - ed. Michelle Tea 11. Daughters of the North - Sarah Hall 12. St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves - Karen Russell 13. Assembling California - John McPhee 14. Until I Find You - John Irving 15. The Marrow's Telling - Eli Clare 16. An Unspoken Hunger - Terry Tempest Williams 17. Whipping Girl * - Julia Serrano 18. Ceremonies - Essex Hemphill 19. Map of Ireland - Stephanie Grant 20. This Is Your Brain On Music - David Levitin 21. Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson 22. Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch - Dwight A. McBride 23. Giovanni's Room * - James Baldwin 24. The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse - Mabel Maney 25. Another Country - James Baldwin 26. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt 27. The Passion * - Jeanette Winterson 28. Two or Three Things I Know For Sure - Dorothy Allison 29. Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood 30. Morpho Eugenia - A. S. Byatt 31. Art & Lies - Jeanette Anderson 32. The Case of the Good-For-Nothing Girlfriend - Maybe Maney what more? what next? | | Friday, November 27th, 2009 | | 6:23 pm |
make
I made vegan pecan pie for reclaimed postcolonial vegan thanksgiving; I made a bunch of shirts with gay whales on them, and I made an etsy to sell them on: ohthehumanatee.etsy.comgay whales! vegan humanatees! all matter of subversive marine mammals! | | Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 | | 1:05 pm |
West Coast Tour
t minus 5 hours until my flight to seattle, and i have neither packed nor gotten around to putting on pants, but I do have a west coast tour schedule for y'all! Full info is at http://www.girlyman.com/showdates/ and here's the rundown: Oct. 29th, 8pm Seattle, WA Tractor Tavern Oct. 30th, 9:30 pm Bellingham, WA Green Frog Cafe Acoustic Tavern Oct. 31st, 9 pm Portland, OR Mississippi Studios Nov. 4th, 8 pm Reno, NV Studio on 4th Nov. 5th, 7:30 Felton, CA (WHOO HOO FELTON IS ALMOST SANTA CRUZ, Y'ALL) Don Quixote's Nov. 6th, 8 pm Sebastopol, CA Sebastopol Community Center Nov. 7th, 8 pm Berkeley, CA Freight & Salvage Nov. 9th, 9 pm Los Angeles, CA Bootleg Theater (NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE!) | | Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 | | 5:48 pm |
In Groton, MA, at Borofsky family residence, seated between several grosses of new cds and an elderly cat named Homer. off on a very exciting tour, partly because the northeast is a nice place to play acoustic folk shows in early autumn, and partly because of of how much I heart traveling with Po' Girl. (Last tour's escapades ended up including hula-hoop dance circles, breaking into earthmoving-equipment-training rooms, and seven-person multi-tambourine renditions of "Son of a Preacher Man" on a nightly basis.) come see Girlyman play and me run a sound board! Sep. 30th, 8 pm Norfolk, CT Infinity Hall Oct. 1st, 8 pm Somerville, MA Somerville Theater Oct. 2nd, 8 pm Portland, ME One Longfellow Square Oct. 3rd, 7 pm Northampton, MA Iron Horse Music Hall Oct. 4th, 7:30 pm South Burlington, VT Higher Ground Oct. 7th, 8 pm New Haven, CT Cafe Nine Oct. 8th, 9:30 pm New York, NY Joe's Pub Oct. 9th, 8 pm Easton, MD NightCat Oct. 10th, 8 pm Elmer, NJ Appel Farm Arts & Music Center Oct. 11th, 7:30 pm Alexandria, VA The Birchmere Full info at www.girlyman.com. sweet. | | Saturday, August 29th, 2009 | | 12:07 pm |
three words or fewer
am 22. have vehicle. camped in arizona. flagstaff coffee. grand canyon sunset. long day drives. santa cruz house. packing and packing. boxes, guitar cases. drive to atlanta. day after tomorrow. stop in texas. tour in canada. get somewhere new. | | Saturday, July 25th, 2009 | | 1:18 pm |
I have a problem. I do not much like driving, ethically speaking. (I don't personally dislike the act of driving; I mean I really have a problem with the environmental and social results of burning gas to get places.) As a result, I've taken some cool steps to minimize how much I drive, like biking when I can and taking the bus around town. This is all pretty sweet: I'm in better shape, I spend more time outside on nice days, I meet cool people and the occasional wingnut on the bus. So far so good. Problem: I get fairly wigged out when I really do have to drive. In traffic especially, because I get in a tailspin about all those carbon dioxide emissions rising into the atmosphere before my very eyes, to say nothing of US foreign policy decisions along these issues. But sometimes, it's raining, or you're traveling with several people, or going somewhere the bus doesn't run, or carrying a lot of shit, or, let's say, a touring folk music group with several hundred pounds of equipment and instruments and a show 200 miles away in a a couple hours, and driving is just what's done. And even your most efficient Toyota Prius/magenta biodiesel-powered Sprinter van/whatever is still, y'know, contributing to the Big Picture. I'm starting to make daily choices based around fuel consumption (can't go to that event - it's not safe to bike there at night and there's no bus; don't want to visit so-and-so 'cause they live 50 miles away, etc.). I feel ok about this until I describe my logic to someone and they say what? I mean, I feel ok about it, but I don't love not seeing people I'd otherwise like to see 'cause it would require one of us driving. Also I will be driving across the country a lot in the future. Also yes current fuel technologies are inadequate and the transnational power relationships around them are fucked up, but what the hell do we do in the meantime? | | Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 | | 12:16 pm |
ok. so it turns out being a lighting designer for a children's production of a disney musical is not difficult. good to know. also, worth remembering: I actually love technical theater. even children's productions of disney musicals technical theater. which is funny, because I effectively spent college detouring myself out of the life plan I had in high school of becoming a big shot lighting designer or sound engineer, only to immediately start doing both of those things after college (minus the big shot part). the latest chapter in the Life Plans Saga is that I am Definitely Probably Thinking about moving to Atlanta? still? my cat has become miraculously domesticated! perhaps the opportunity to stalk Wildlife In Teh Wilderness, namely our backyard, for 12 hours a day has relieved her desire to stalk wildlife such as wind currents and/or feet. | | Monday, July 13th, 2009 | | 1:10 pm |
three things: 1. Since I desperately needed and wanted work, I posed as a Real Lighting Designer to get a lighting design job. I am not a Real Lighting Designer; I am a sound technician who has helped out on lighting hangs/focuses and stood near Real Lighting Designers sometimes. Now, understandably, the director is expecting me to produce a Real Lighting Design and do the hang and focus and program the board by opening on Friday. lawls? 2. Yesterday, cleaning my bookshelf, I found a picture of my late Democratic California Grandfather (n.b.: different from Republican North Carolina Grandfather) standing next to Richard Nixon. This picture was signed. By Richard Nixon. And utterly inexplicable. again, lawls? 3. I've been going to free skool classes/study sessions on Physics For People Who Don't Really Get Physics. (The class is actually called "Physics for Everyone.") Last night I went to a free skool shape note singing class. Overlap of attendance between Baby Physics class and shape note singing class? Nearly 100%. correlation? causation? you decide. | | Sunday, June 14th, 2009 | | 4:21 pm |
Life and other Plans
err um so I graduated from college, moved out of 147, kicked it around massachusetts for a week, came back to oberlin for a week of summer thunderstorms, audio tech cramming, and hanging out with friends and faculty, and tomorrow depart for Atlanta, GA. Here's the itinerary - if you're going to be any of these places, check out http://www.girlyman.com/showdates/ for full show information. June 19th - Santa Monica, CA Jun. 20th - San Diego, CA Jun. 21st - Santa Barbara, CA, Live Oak Music Festival Jun. 23rd - Tucson, AZ Jun. 24th - Flagstaff, AZ Jun. 27th - 28th - Laytonville, CA, Kate Wolf Memorial Music Festival I will be: driving a big red van, glamorously loading and unloading equipment, mixing the shows, and learning more about sound tech more rapidly than ever in my life. I cannot wait. | | Saturday, December 20th, 2008 | | 12:54 pm |
You asked for it
I am back in Santa Cruz - 2.5 hour emergency fuel stop in Omaha, snowstorms in Utah, 8 hour surprise delay in Salt Lake City, and one suitcase full of drenched clothes and library books nonwithstanding. way to go, aviation industry. In other news, you asked for it. This is a 10-page essay in its natural, double-spaced environment, so it's a big cut. responses, editorial comments, etc. are all welcome. ( Neoliberalism, Modernity, and Cherry Chapstick: The Sexual Politics of Katy Perry ) | | Thursday, December 18th, 2008 | | 3:55 pm |
| | Sunday, December 14th, 2008 | | 10:50 pm |
omigod you guys. revelation: Katy Perry never wears pants.
It's true. I will personally mail cookies to anyone who can find a picture of Katy Perry wearing pants. the legs must be covered. must. this lends a whole new twist to my research. | | Saturday, December 13th, 2008 | | 5:39 pm |
the sun rose at 8:04 am today. you know it's winter in the northern latitudes when. shaping up to be a not-excruciating finals period. pros of life: -finals that remain are a prospectus/bibliography for honors and a 10-15 pp. paper on Katy Perry
-guess whose midwestern liberal arts college campus Girlyman will be playing at on May 1st? That's right, MINE.
-A Very Fruity Holiday Party went down in our living room last night, featuring Swedish mulled wine and elf-shaped decorations
-knee-high argyle socks
-learning to spell argyle.
-Hannukah party featuring Oberlin's on B-52 cover band on the docket tonight
on the other hand, I do have 34 library and OhioLINK items to return to Mudd by Wednesday, and it's 29 degrees out. hmm.
| | Thursday, December 4th, 2008 | | 11:34 pm |
finals project that i am stressed out and unhappy about: huge paper & revision thereof on dramatic literature, the body, postcolonialism, memory, and how not to write papers the size of russia when lichtenstein will do. finals projects i have no strong feelings about: tarting up ESL lesson plans prospectus and annotated bibliography for honors finals project that are awesome: silkscreening "Mister Hillary and hir Fabulous Fairchildren's Fruit-of-the-Month Calendar" featuring my fruitiest co-co-opers posing with grapefruits and bananas research paper on Katy Perry's inadvertently queer agenda, written as diva camp performance. hopefully. back to work, yo. | | Monday, November 24th, 2008 | | 9:09 pm |
| | Sunday, November 23rd, 2008 | | 5:07 pm |
(this is a cop-out post. It's not like nothing's happened in the past three weeks, I've just been sort of taking an interwub-break, amplified by my computer's brief-but-grave-but-now-cured illness.) have: read the entirety of Terrorist Assemblages (sample quote: "Can we keep our sense open to emergent and unknown forms of belonging, connectivity, intimacy, the unintentional and indeterminate slippages and productivities of of domination, to signal a futurity of affective politics?") thin crispy melty snow layer bagels, far away in the co-op (courtesy of ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) flyinghambo ) readings, tea lights, and silk-screened posters for tonight's Transgender Day of Remembrance Vigil 5 books from the oberlin public library's book sale, for the grand total of $2.50. including Maya Angelou, bell hooks, and Annie Dillard. this feels somehow wrong. (capitalism is working? sort of?) crampity cramps thanksgiving plans that involve seeing the fam and meeting the newlywed cousin-in-law library poetry mango ceylon black tea need: more heat, more often 9 more pages in this english tutorial essay a coherent response to Terrorist Assemblages and some basic steps towards actually doing my honors project to make posters for the fancy contradance and t-shirts for my clandestine t-shirt business life plans | | Monday, November 3rd, 2008 | | 10:15 pm |
| | Sunday, October 26th, 2008 | | 2:23 pm |
the kitten thing has vastly improved my quality of life. she like to snuggle my sleeves while I read/type and mew plaintively if I do not cuddle her sufficiently. I read Bone Black and The Queen of America Goes to Washington City, canvassed a lot and phone banked for Barack Obama, biked to and from Lake Erie, patched a flat on a street corner in Lorain, baked pumpkin and regular-wheat bread, listened to Kent State's NPR station, slept a bunch, socially-hermitted, watched "Kinsey", walked around in autumn, screened shirts and underwear, and cleaned things. that was basically my break. i feel good about it and also ready for it to be over. goals: resume & life plans; turning my honors project from a flowchart to an outline/essay proposal, saying luminous things about the postcolonial body in contemporary american drama, playing some music sometime, first snow. Current Music: sufjan stevens - illinoise | | Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 | | 6:59 pm |
omg eleven !1!! I just met bell hooks, well sort of, and she's giving a talk on place and sustainability in Finney in one hour omg omg. for reals. I'm definitely in Oberlin for fall break: I will be canvassing for Obama and silkscreening dorky queer t-shirts. If anyone wants a shirt that says "Save the Gay Whales" or "oh hai i'm in ur discourses dekonstructing ur gender binary" you are welcome to give me a shirt and I will do the rest. coffee & kitten & crooked still & dykacademic day = as it turns out, I rather like this after all. Current Music: did you sleep well? - crooked still |
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