August 19, 2019 at 6:55 am (Eavesdropping, Family, Flowers, Insomnia, Links, Philippine History)
Tags: Garden, photorphy, Sundays
The theme for the week is YELLOW.
Self was cleaning out son’s room when she came upon a box of legos. Was fascinated by the little people and their yellow heads.
The box contains all of son’s Matchbox car collection. There’s a yellow car at the very top.
My Life of the Party Rose has two colors of blooms: pink and yellow
Stay tuned, dear blog reader. Stay tuned.
March 17, 2019 at 8:50 pm (Books, Eavesdropping, Memoirs, Places, plans, Sundays, The Economist, Women Writers)
Tags: English writers, literature of medicine, London, medicine, nonfiction, reading lists, reviews
As dear blog readers can tell from the date, self has a whole pile of Economists to catch up on.
Today is Sunday and the sun is shining and she’s made good on her goal to spend most, if not all, of today reading.
She’s on the 9 February 2019 Books section, and there’s a review of a really interesting book:
Another book reviewed in this issue (though not positively, lol) is Let Me Not Be Mad, by A. K. Benjamin. Sadly, The Economist does not warm up to its unreliable narrator, but self confesses to being intrigued by this excerpt, quoted in the review:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
October 31, 2018 at 6:41 am (Books, Eavesdropping, Recommended, Surprises, Women Writers)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, artists residency, Ireland, novel, reading lists, science fiction, Tyrone Guthrie Centre
Paladin and Eliasz go “undercover” to catch Jack the Smuggler, purveyor of the (illegal) Homework Drug (Which has an actual name, but please: self is teaching on-line. Does she have time to look up things? She just keeps thinking: Adderall. Adderall all the time)
There is some really dry wit happening in the head of Paladin (who is AI). There is something really fetching about androids, robots, synths and such. Wouldn’t you agree? So much analyzing, so many surprises!
Stay tuned.
August 26, 2018 at 12:31 am (Artists and Writers, Books, Conversations, Eavesdropping, Family, Memoirs, Recommended, Surprises, Women Writers)
Tags: essay, humor, reading lists, Saturday, summer
Self’s favorite essay so far. She loves the motherly distress over the thought that her 13-year-old daughter receives dick pics from an acquaintance. The mother, a true Mama Bear, calls the boy (whose number she finds from an email on her daughter’s computer — Bad Mama for snooping! Bad!)
“Hello?” says the boy, “warily.”
“Hi! Who’s this?”
“M—-” he says, giving his name. Good Lord, this boy would probably follow a guy who said he had a hurt puppy in his car.
Anyhoo, the conversation never touches on the dick pic, and yet there is eventually a
Long pause. “Oh.”
And I think, he’s putting it together. He knows.
The mother does talk to her daughter about it, and succeeds in being very light. Trusting, you know. She lets it go. But inwardly, she can’t stop worrying. So, some time later, when she and her daughter are “on vacation in the country,” she brings it up again:
“Were you shocked when you saw the picture?”
“Yes.” She’s smiling, but she says ‘Yes’ in the same tone that she might say “Of course” or “Duh.”
“Well, what he did was send an assault, and that’s wrong, and — “
“Bye-bye.” She walks outside. She has always been a private person. She hates Talks.
And the mother is rebuffed. Again. And yet again.
The last image is of the daughter sitting on a swing: she “swings slowly, the wood making little creaking sounds like a sailboat’s mast in the sea.”
How lovely the image!
And a few sentences later, the piece ends.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers.
July 21, 2018 at 4:10 pm (Books, Conversations, Eavesdropping, Family, Recommended, short story collections, Women Writers)
Tags: Elizabeth Strout, reading lists, Saturday
Olive has been eavesdropping at her son’s wedding. Suzanne, her new daughter-in-law, and a guest are discussing her son:
“He’s had a hard time, you know. And being an only child — that really sucked for him.”
Seaweed murmurs, and Suzanne’s oar slices through the water again. “The expectations, you know.”
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
July 17, 2018 at 10:30 pm (Eavesdropping, Lists)
Tags: causes, discoveries, Huffpost, The New Yorker
The Daily Stormer is a relatively popular neo-Nazi blog, although it’s impossible to know exactly how popular. (From the style guide: “The site continues to grow month by month, indicating that there is no ceiling on this.” Also from the guide: “We should always claim we are winning, and should celebrate any wins with exteme exaggeration.”)
— Andrew Marantz, in a piece from The New Yorker’s Talk of the Town, 15 January 2018
Apparently, a HuffPost reporter, Ashley Feinberg, got sent a style guide, which is seventeen pages long. Excerpts:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
June 24, 2018 at 12:26 am (Artists and Writers, Books, Conversations, Eavesdropping, Memoirs, Recommended, Surprises, Traveling)
Tags: elections, nonfiction, politics, reading lists, Saturday, summer, travel books
Finished In the Lake of the Woods in the wee hours. Got back past 11 p.m. from the City, resumed reading and just could not put it down until she knew what became of the missing wife.
She then turned to the next book on her reading list, Travels with Charley, by John Steinbeck. She’s still on the Introduction, by Jay Parini:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
March 27, 2018 at 3:20 am (Conversations, Eavesdropping, Lists, Surprises, television)
Tags: adaptations, humor, Mondays, mysteries, Twitter
Self didn’t get to see the final episode. She’s here in Mendocino, reading tweets.
She didn’t get to watch last week’s episode either, but there were lots of tweets about CATS. Wait, what?
Then, there was almost a Twitter silence. For about five minutes. Which meant, everyone was watching and something was going down.
This evening, the tweet-storm began with something about coulottes. Sara?
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
February 15, 2018 at 11:12 pm (Eavesdropping, Family, Links, Surprises)
Tags: Cal Poly, Cee Neuner, discoveries, memories, San Luis Obispo
Self’s word is AMAZING.
Here’s a picture of something son left behind in his room. He attended college in Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo. His freshman dorm was Muir, the Math and Sciences dorm. He moved to shared housing for his sophomore year, but his third and fourth years at Cal Poly, he was back in Muir — as an RA, or Resident Assistant.
When he graduated, the crowd that attended commencement included a group of students who had all gone through Muir and had the good fortune (they said) to have son as an RA.
Excavating Son’s Room: Amazing Discovery
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
December 25, 2017 at 10:13 am (Artists and Writers, Conversations, Eavesdropping, Filipino Writers, Food and Drink, Holidays, plans, Traveling, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: breakfast, Christmas, Mondays, museums, Paris, work-in-progress, writing process
4th Floor, near Charles de Gaulle. The first floor of this building is a store that sells harps. The window stays lighted at night, and she loves to look at the harps on display.
Self was planning to walk along the Champs Elysée. She’s had a big breakfast and is now back in her room, writing her novel-in-progress.
Last night, she walked a few blocks to the Arc de Triomphe and got off this moody night-time shot:
Christmas Eve, 2017
This morning, she went down for breakfast, and eavesdropped on the other guests: they talked of reading books, falling asleep at midnight, taking a leisurely stroll.
She will spend Christmas Day writing.
(Oops, not quite. She remembers the artists in Tyrone Guthrie telling her that things do not all close down on Christmas. She looked up the Louvre. It is open today. The hotel has been asking her to let them clean her room because she’s been inside most of the last two days. So that’s what she’ll do: she’ll take the metro to the Louvre)
Stay tuned.
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