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12:07 PM I'm teaching English Composition I this semester at UCF. While I feel it isn't appropriate to make any comments on the class in this kind of public forum -- they'd all be positive anyway, but never mind -- I don't mind letting interested parties in on the class website.
Wednesday, August 13, 2003
11:24 AM Herein is an outstanding review of Freddy v. Jason, which suggests that while the movie will likely be awful (the critic disagrees, but his praise is too centered on elements to be drawn out of the movie, not the movie itself), it may be worth watching. Ronny Yu did a fantastic job w/ Bride with the Red Veil and made what should have been a terrible movie (Bride of Chucky) a rather watchable one. Who knows? Maybe it'll work. The problem with movies this summer is that if Pirates of the Caribbean worked, and it did, it kind of makes every bad idea seem like it may actually fly.
Thursday, August 07, 2003
9:57 PM From my Shack to Yours
I counted calories during my first year of getting in shape, nigh four years ago. It wasn't a big part of the big change, but it was significant -- mostly it was doing an hour of cardio every day (moderate walking on a treadmill), but I made sure that I stuck to less than 1,800 cals per day. Lots of those terrible Healthy Choice dinners.
Anyway, it's late at night, and I'm perusing (and kind of admiring) Ted Kaczynski's lost library list, and there it is, Count Your Calories.
So there's also a lot of Conrad and some Hardy, and there is more history than would suit my taste, and there's also that unfortunate violent streak, and a propensity for unreadable manifestos, but I do believe that readers, insane or not, politically akin or not, do share a kind of inescapable link -- we may not agree with our fellow readers, or even like them, but the bond is there. There's no escaping it.
Good night.
Sunday, August 03, 2003
8:32 AM The Telltale Teeth: Psychodontia to Sociodontia
These days I learn more slowly than expected and, since it's summer, do have a harder time waking. But I do learn. And I do wake.
Sunday: Woke up from vivid, disturbing dreams for the second night in a row. Went back to bed for bit, fussed, woke up, wrote a bit towards a story that seems to be going nowhere, made coffee, watched the CBS Sunday newsshow, designed for sixty-year-olds and hence totally suited for the prematurely senile: it ended with five minutes of hummingbirds feeding on cacti accompanied by ambient noise. Thought briefly of that Pixies song about the cactus and the dress, then tried to remember what album it came from... Surfer Rosa? Every Pixies song ever comes from Surfer Rosa.
What have I learned? I forget. I need more coffee. Oh, yes: 28 is a hell of an age, the best age so far, who the hell knows why, and people are on the whole wonderful, and good to have around.
Apropos of nothing: I've been really enjoying this thread in the Nabokov forum.
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