so long

This spring would have been my 4 year anniversary on Blogger. Alas, it's time to move on. I'm officially switching over to wordpress. Hope you all will still visit me here. Ciao.

happy halloween

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design sponge

This is one of the most fantastic design sites on the net. Whether you're looking for trends, inspiration, or just good formatting, design sponge is the place. I'm always visiting for ideas.

betting my (fortunate) on

Jenny Owen Youngs. She is going to be mega. Major.

coming to the end

I'm making some changes to my little weblog world. They have been long coming, but I've been too busy lately. Spending time customizing and working out kinks, but I'm planning to make the move in a week or so.

on the fall road

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rust belt poets

I've been interested in what this means--to be a Rust Belt poet. It's been coming up more and more lately, and I'm wondering what everyone thinks about it. My students have been reading Mary's book and somehow we got on the topic of Rust Belt poetry, as if I knew for certain what it was and could easily define it's aesthetic qualities for an intro class. And then one of my students raised her hand and asked, "You're from that area right?" And I said yes. And she asked, "Well, are you a Rust Belt poet?" And it didn't know what to say, though I wanted to claim it--Yes, Yes I am!! Anyway, I am just curious what everyone else thinks.

sunday link

I've recently been obsessed with photographers working with the domestic. I can't turn away from Julie Blackmon's work. I wish I could afford one.

tagged

I just realized that Mary tagged me awhile back on this. I hope that I can get the formatting correct. I can't strike through, so I'll just pretend I didn't hate any of these. Here are the rules:

Bold what you have read, italicize books you’ve started but couldn’t finish, and strike through books you hated. Add an asterisk* to those you’ve read more than once. Underline those on your "To Be Read" list.

Also, I think there is a category missing--carrots around books you scanned the night before it was going to be discussed in class.


Jonathan Strange & M. Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22*
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights*
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi: a Novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey*
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveller’s Wife
The Iliad*
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway*
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius*
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man*
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein*
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath*
The Poisonwood Bible*
1984*
Angels & Demons
The Inferno*
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury*
Angela’s Ashes*
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present*
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-Five*
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye*
On the Road*
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics
The Aeneid*
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers