By some crack in my English curriculum, To Kill a Mockingbird, skipped me. Thus, I felt some intangible responsibility to remove it from the list-of-books-I-should-have-read-in-seventh-grade. I can see now the rationale for its accolades – the cherry-picked symbolism, precocious pre-teens, an approachable primer on southern race-relations. Yes, Harper Lee handles all
For a while, it looked like Chuck Palahniuk was a one trick pony. Every novel post Fight Club followed the formula – edgy first person narration, repetitive metaphors and hooks, maybe a big third act twist. Sure, there were some gems – Survivor and Choke – but a change was needed. With Haunted
Stuff I’ve been listening to a bunch over the last month ~ Band of Horses – Everything all the time [http://www.amazon.com/Everything-All-Time-Band-Horses/dp/B000E6GBV2/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-4345451-5748908?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1179285889&sr=8-1] Originally released over a year ago, its strange I didn’
Life in the Meta Following a few bored hours browsing Facebook – traversing an endless labyrinth of digital photos, lists of movies, books, tv shows, blogs and distributed snippets of conversation – I wondered about our attitude towards privacy. There’s no denying we’re more open with our interests, our photographs