Lunchtime Love

Solitary Xiaoda Xiao

Lunchtime recommendation: At Guerica, Xiaoda Xiao: Prison Paintings, and earlier piece, Nixon’s Nose. Post and paintings by Xiaoda Xiao, the activist, painter, violinist, and author of The Cave Man, and the forthcoming book The Visiting Suit: Stories From My Prison Life Xiaoda Xiao is a former political prisoner, sentencedat at …

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The Last of the Scapegoats

Pia reminded me that Robert McNamara died. I’m not as well schooled on the Vietnam era as I am on other things, though I know more about it than most people my age, if only because I find it more interesting than shopping for Jim Choo’s — they are out …

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Waiting For A Rainbow

It rained heavily earlier this evening. The Sun’s brilliance, relentless during the ten minute deluge, would have prompted a search for my level 5 sunglasses had they been in my bag. Rushing home from a myriad of tasks I scanned the sky only briefly for the anticipated rainbow. Of the …

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Women’s Week Continues with Octavia Butler

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The week prior to break, a break I’m on as of a few hours ago, careened slightly out of control, consequently I’m later and with less than I had hoped for. I hoped to do a women a day, in retrospect a lofty thought for the kind of week I …

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Notes on Twilight and Other Civic Duties

While your chillin with the hot chocolate after your five mile run deciding if you really want to stand in line for a movie from a series of books geared toward adolescent girls, girls whose limited fantasy revolves around doing it with a vampire (the thinly disguised bad boy, different …

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Je Ne Sais Quoi and The Usual Sunday Night Agenda

I heard something breathing outside my window last night. While hearing deer breathing/snorting late at night, as they congregated on the lawn, was not uncommon in my old home it’s not something one would expect in this small city. It’s quite unlikely a large group of deer would take a …

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