tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473142Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:17:09 +0000pop culture, nabokov, literature, colombia, wasted talent, wasted time --return home by clicking <a href="http://www.fulmerford.com">here</a>http://www.fulmerford.com/strobe/fulmerlog/fulmerford@gmail.com (fulmerford)Blogger103125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473142.post-8923061341434042156Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:17:00 +00002010-01-28T09:17:09.216-08:00Geo F TrumperQuestionable AnglophiliaAziz AnsariR. Kelly I love Geo F. Trumper's sandalwood soap, and ditto for the packaging, but even so the slogan in the back ("Trumper's shaving requisites for the discerning") and some of the copy reminds me of Achewood's Mr.Teal Computer. (And of course I realize that one's parodying the other, so it's a little like being all, Hey, R. Kelly's totally doing Aziz Ansari doing R. Kelly! But awesomeness sometimes http://www.fulmerford.com/strobe/fulmerlog/2010/01/shrovis-bishopthorpe-soap.htmlfulmerford@gmail.com (fulmerford)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473142.post-559224021380818793Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:46:00 +00002010-01-25T13:46:15.660-08:00Hi there! I'm neck-deep in the dissertation, so I'm using this blog as a quick, temporary repository for all sorts of Nabokov material (the stuff that would normally go into the site). The hope is that, since it's all small bites, I'll be less lazy about posting stuff. So yes: less lazy, more frequent.http://www.fulmerford.com/strobe/fulmerlog/2010/01/fulmerford-site-updates-but-not-on.htmlfulmerford@gmail.com (fulmerford)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473142.post-147184691686999046Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:09:00 +00002009-03-07T10:16:49.847-08:00So a while back I wrote this thing for McSweeney's as a short, imagined monologue. It is now not so much imagined: It's its own piece -- different from what I would have imagined (I was thinking more the quiet, choked outrage of a very shy person, and this is flashier, also mostly (and smartly) paraphrased) -- but it's still pretty neat that anyone bothered. I'm with commentator Garuntun in http://www.fulmerford.com/strobe/fulmerlog/2009/03/lead-singer-is-distracting-me-is_4432.htmlfulmerford@gmail.com (fulmerford)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473142.post-7371239893238048858Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:09:00 +00002008-01-29T09:41:56.039-08:00NYC!So flying off tomorrow to New York for AWP (I'm presenting in panel S111 should you want to stop in and say hello). New York! New York! I love New York. I love how many of the wonderful things I read have the town's name on the inside, in the copyright page, or right on the title (as in Times or Review of Books or Er). And I love the giant space the city has occupied in fiction, movies, http://www.fulmerford.com/strobe/fulmerlog/2008/01/nyc-so-flying-off-tomorrow-to-new-york.htmlfulmerford@gmail.com (fulmerford)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473142.post-5326696034590338027Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:01:00 +00002008-01-21T09:26:49.863-08:00Seņor Don Veneno Over the winter break, while the networks covered the escaped San Francisco tiger mauling, we spent the better part of our news grazing for updates on the Colombian hostage release situation. It was confusing enough to begin with, then grew incredibly more confusing, with the families being flown to Venezuela, where Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez accused the Colombian http://www.fulmerford.com/strobe/fulmerlog/2008/01/se-don-dinero-over-winter-break-while.htmlfulmerford@gmail.com (fulmerford)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473142.post-3903544869469302335Sat, 24 Nov 2007 18:54:00 +00002007-11-24T11:48:40.103-08:00Thumbs Up The semester's coming to a close and not a moment too soon. We are all aware of the dangers of obsessive study. Moreover, we are also aware that there's been far too much moping going on--and that fun as that is, it's the kind of thing that should perhaps be administered in way tiny doses. Doses tinier, at any rate, than the ones presented here.So. Some additional complaints: (1) I http://www.fulmerford.com/strobe/fulmerlog/2007/11/thumbs-up-semesters-coming-to-close-and.htmlfulmerford@gmail.com (fulmerford)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473142.post-7191830251095836469Fri, 16 Nov 2007 07:30:00 +00002007-11-15T23:38:38.017-08:00Arms OutstretchedI wrote this bit a few days ago: Somewhere, in some parallel universe, there's a dictionary of cumbersome words for cumbersome feelings. In this dictionary there's probably a word for the weeks where you're feeling slightly off all day, from morning to night, and where all the things that give you (I mean, by the way, me) comfort have been slightly tweaked, so that everything youhttp://www.fulmerford.com/strobe/fulmerlog/2007/11/arms-outstretched-i-wrote-this-bit-few.htmlfulmerford@gmail.com (fulmerford)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473142.post-8680415796884881204Wed, 04 Jul 2007 19:44:00 +00002007-07-04T12:45:03.634-07:00And the CV's been updated. Yes.http://www.fulmerford.com/strobe/fulmerlog/2007/07/and-cvs-been-updated.htmlfulmerford@gmail.com (fulmerford)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473142.post-361531884122096349Wed, 04 Jul 2007 18:45:00 +00002007-07-04T12:00:32.417-07:00Less Abstruse! Less Commentary!Many thanks to John Feith for his absolutely wonderful video/song, and for his offer to make "Waxwing," his song, the official song of Waxwing, the Vladimir Nabokov Appreciation Page. And so it is done. "Waxwing" is Waxwing's official song! See also Hailey Wojcik's terrific ukulele-based "Nabokov's Butterfly." Those two will be added to NaboPop soonish--Friday at http://www.fulmerford.com/strobe/fulmerlog/2007/07/less-abstruse-less-commentary-many.htmlfulmerford@gmail.com (fulmerford)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473142.post-3132065571825452155Mon, 25 Jun 2007 04:27:00 +00002007-06-25T08:58:34.890-07:00Bound by Symmetry So yes: disaster averted. I photographed the first on my way to the Clark County Library. Then, when I came back (ten minutes later) it had been amended. So apparently lobsters are not coming. So lately it's all been about sad. It's not a constant sadness, and it's not even the sort of sadness that's even close to unique. It's pretty much everyone's sadness, at one point or http://www.fulmerford.com/strobe/fulmerlog/2007/06/bound-by-symmetry-so-yes-disaster.htmlfulmerford@gmail.com (fulmerford)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473142.post-3368647164794738908Tue, 08 May 2007 21:25:00 +00002007-05-08T14:42:11.263-07:00Also: Lunch is for Closers Only. And for Pool Ducks. My phone has a camera, and so I am taking pictures and putting them up on Flickr. As are you. As is the world. Hi! And hello, ducks! They've been at the apartment-complex pool for a few weeks: they are getting fat on everybody's bread, mine included. They're getting so they'll shun inferior bread, which is eaten by an entourage of blackbirds http://www.fulmerford.com/strobe/fulmerlog/2007/05/also-lunch-is-for-closers-only.htmlfulmerford@gmail.com (fulmerford)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473142.post-2687823868227643322Sun, 06 May 2007 19:07:00 +00002007-05-06T12:13:13.529-07:00Quick Like a Bunny Post Before Rushing Off to See Spiderman 3So some updates. In Nabokovilia, new entries for a math textbook, Claire Messud, Gary Shteyngart, and an updated entry for Dan Simmons. In Nabopop, new entries for Game Theory, Kicking and Screaming, and (coming soon) Lost.http://www.fulmerford.com/strobe/fulmerlog/2007/05/quick-like-bunny-post-before-rushing.htmlfulmerford@gmail.com (fulmerford)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473142.post-115592828014183885Fri, 18 Aug 2006 19:00:00 +00002006-08-18T12:22:13.820-07:00Sneak PreviewThe Waxwing site went without updates for a whole freaking year. I was lazy. Och. But I've just added eleven entries to Nabokovilia: Isaac Adamson, MC Beaton, Lawrence Block, Christopher Bram, Richard Brautigan, Andrew Lewis Conn, Barbara Kingsolver, Arthur Phillips, Anne Rice, Katherine Weber, and Irvin Yalom.Later this afternoon: three updates to NaboPop. Will update the What's Newhttp://www.fulmerford.com/strobe/fulmerlog/2006/08/sneak-preview-waxwing-site-went-without.htmlfulmerford@gmail.com (fulmerford)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473142.post-115379698324822422Tue, 25 Jul 2006 03:05:00 +00002006-07-29T10:41:30.860-07:00Disgruntled Vegans      Las Vegas is a place for the very angry, the very disgruntled, and those who choose to express themselves via all sorts of physical objects and writing utensils. (The first note was one of several stapled to a post--each handwritten with the exact same angry message. Whoever wrote it clearly preferred angry repetitive handwriting to the convenience of angry photocopying. http://www.fulmerford.com/strobe/fulmerlog/2006/07/disgruntled-vegans-las-vegas-is-place.htmlfulmerford@gmail.com (fulmerford)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473142.post-114313062039914013Thu, 23 Mar 2006 16:03:00 +00002006-03-23T08:20:31.973-08:00The Bear-Trap of a Warm EmbraceThere is far too much to do & so forgive this incredibly cursory, likely mispelled post, but I figured if you're here & you're reading you are--God knows why--curious as to what's been going on. So what's been going on is this: I've been writing up a storm, and reading buckets, and doing all sorts of things to keep up with the PhD, which is both a thrill and a treathttp://www.fulmerford.com/strobe/fulmerlog/2006/03/bear-trap-of-warm-embrace-there-is-far.htmlfulmerford@gmail.com (fulmerford)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473142.post-114312979065862514Thu, 23 Mar 2006 15:59:00 +00002006-03-23T08:03:10.666-08:00Dmitri Nabokov, Vladimir Nabokov's son, has a blog. Your excitement over this event may be proportional to your Nabokov fixation, though clearly mine is pretty significant, so that any Nabokov- and Nabokov-family-related news is cause for celebration.http://www.fulmerford.com/strobe/fulmerlog/2006/03/dmitri-nabokov-vladimir-nabokovs-son.htmlfulmerford@gmail.com (fulmerford)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473142.post-113272089185370949Wed, 23 Nov 2005 04:37:00 +00002005-11-22T20:41:31.866-08:00Why I Love the Gilmore GirlsBecause the tambourine dude from Dig! just popped in for a cameo. And also for Lorelai and Rory. For inappropriate reasons. (Also some approriate ones.)I'm flying to Orlando! To see the girlfriend! Tomorrow! The plane takes off from Las Vegas, lands in Chicago, and then I run run run to another plane that will eventually land in Orlando. Woo!http://www.fulmerford.com/strobe/fulmerlog/2005/11/why-i-love-gilmore-girls-because.htmlfulmerford@gmail.com (fulmerford)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473142.post-113044231284654776Thu, 27 Oct 2005 19:29:00 +00002005-10-27T12:51:29.286-07:00OnTod Goldberg on Las Vegas. (Also: 5 Rules. 5 Rules Redux.)Gleaner on Las Vegas.Paolini (in KNPR) on Las Vegas. (See also We All Live in Las Vegas, available via Amazon.)Michael Dear on Las Vegas (11/9).Michael Chabon on Las Vegas.Fez in Las Vegas.http://www.fulmerford.com/strobe/fulmerlog/2005/10/on-tod-goldberg-on-las-vegas.htmlfulmerford@gmail.com (fulmerford)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473142.post-112932937593032230Fri, 14 Oct 2005 22:34:00 +00002005-10-14T15:40:38.513-07:00Las Vegas Ephemera http://www.fulmerford.com/strobe/fulmerlog/2005/10/las-vegas-ephemera.htmlfulmerford@gmail.com (fulmerford)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473142.post-112448373921087897Fri, 19 Aug 2005 20:34:00 +00002005-08-19T13:35:39.216-07:00There are updates to the Nabokov site! Also: I am alive and well in Vegas.http://www.fulmerford.com/strobe/fulmerlog/2005/08/there-are-updates-to-nabokov-site-also.htmlfulmerford@gmail.com (fulmerford)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473142.post-112111776801485923Mon, 11 Jul 2005 21:26:00 +00002005-07-11T14:36:08.020-07:00Lo,I have liberated books! Selah!I am eBaying items! Buy them, if you dare!I am moving & low on funds & sending out an A.P.B.! Hello!http://www.fulmerford.com/strobe/fulmerlog/2005/07/lo-i-have-liberated-books-selah-i-am.htmlfulmerford@gmail.com (fulmerford)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473142.post-112075729359110849Thu, 07 Jul 2005 17:10:00 +00002005-07-07T10:58:34.446-07:00Last Month in OrlandoI am leaving at the end of the month, and if you happen to be in the Central Florida area, and you happen to know me, and you want to say goodbye, please please e-mail my girlfriend, the lovely Becky, light of my fire, lighthouse of my soul, at rebekah.lane@gmail.comfor there is apparently a thing going on where I get to see all of you. And I really want to. I'm already http://www.fulmerford.com/strobe/fulmerlog/2005/07/last-month-in-orlando-i-am-leaving-at.htmlfulmerford@gmail.com (fulmerford)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473142.post-111988953670677267Mon, 27 Jun 2005 16:14:00 +00002005-06-27T09:31:10.816-07:00Like a Summer RainSo I am flying to Vegas on the 28th, moving for good, leaving Orlando, and still trying to negotiate the logistics. I'll be flying with a hamster, in a hamster- and FAA-approved portable carrier. Because apparently this doesn't work.There is the matter of finding a cheap studio apartment near UNLV, since I don't drive, or to find a roommate who is okay with only a semester-long http://www.fulmerford.com/strobe/fulmerlog/2005/06/like-summer-rain-so-i-am-flying-to.htmlfulmerford@gmail.com (fulmerford)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473142.post-111478894510804461Fri, 29 Apr 2005 15:13:00 +00002005-04-29T08:48:40.566-07:00A Convergence of HamstersMy girlfriend gave me hamster as a graduation present a year and half ago. We have named her Molly, because we thought he was a she (he is not but, giant testes aside, who cares? so he is a she) and while I have not really done much in service of this blog, writing only the occassional jumbled missive while rattling from one class to the other, but never really doing http://www.fulmerford.com/strobe/fulmerlog/2005/04/convergence-of-hamsters-my-girlfriend.htmlfulmerford@gmail.com (fulmerford)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473142.post-111446801854492555Mon, 25 Apr 2005 21:50:00 +00002005-04-25T15:26:58.546-07:00So.So I taught my last class at UCF and will be teaching my next-to-the-last class at Valencia, and found myself realizing that I will be missing my students, and that I for the most part enjoyed the experience, all of which is pretty unexpected. B/c mostly I am ready to go. Which as it turns out is what I'll be doing in a few months. I've been accepted places, and have made an official http://www.fulmerford.com/strobe/fulmerlog/2005/04/so.htmlfulmerford@gmail.com (fulmerford)0