And the toy blocks I cannot wait to get my hot little hands on. I can’t wait to see these in my classroom!

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 [...]

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 [...]