A friend has had plans to move to Pennsylvania this weekend, but some of the technicalities got screwed up. The Partner and I will now be joining her on this adventure–although it will be a short trip with us returning on Sunday. Expect plenty of pictures.

Erykah Badu (feat. Lenny Kravitz) — Back In [...]

The Partner contracted some sort of head cold from work and brought it home especially for me! In between blowing my nose and hacking up phlegm, I’m currently attempting my third go at the second square of the blanket I’m knitting:

The first time I repeated a row I shouldn’t have and was not too [...]

Prince — Kiss
Le Tigre — Dude. Yr so crazy
Frida Hyvönen — You Never Got Me Right
She, Sir — I Love You, Blowtorch Eyes
Celia Cruz — Yo Vivire (This is one of the best renditions of “I Will Survive” that I have ever come across. I love the way she rolls her r’s.)
The Faint [...]

One of the seven books I’m reading right now is Gender/Body/Knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing, edited by Jaggar and Bordo (1989). If you like feminist theory, cultural studies, and philosophy, this text is for you. I’m juggling other books at the same time, so I’m only near the end of the [...]

One of these weeks I shall attempt to get back to posting regularly. Obviously this was not the week. Nor any of the weeks in the month of June for that matter. I’m going through a strange spell where I’m not quite sure what to do with myself. What I do [...]