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Wonderful Mother’s Day Weekend in LA: Westlake School for Girls Reunion Lunch, Dinner at Osteria Latini and League of Their Own, and American Buffalo at the Geffen Playhouse
Summer has come to West LA. Happily, summer here bears very little relation to summer in most of the country, which tends to be obscenely humid or so hot–115 in Arizona or Palm Springs–you don’t care whether the heat … Continue reading
The “Vulgar Charm” of Mob Wives: A Reality Show Which Does Not Induce Nausea! (Posted en Route to the Cape on Bus)
Ed Note: I have a backup of blogs on Ben Vereen at 54 Below, the end of Luigi Jazz Dance Intensive and the traditional galavanting of Victorian Chick in the city but will leave those for the weekend at … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Philosophy, Television, Travel, UCSB, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged Barrington, Ben Vereen, cape cod, Carla Facciolo, cultural studies, deconstruction, Drita D'Avanzo, Essex County, geoffrey hartman, Housewives franchise, Housewives of Beverly Hills, Jacques Derrida, John Milton, John Rogers, Karen Gravana, los angeles, MA, Mob Wives, Montclair, new jersey, new york city, Nicole Miller, orange county, osterville, paradise lost, post-structuralism, Renee Graziano, RI, soap operas, Staten Island, TWice the Style, upper east side, William Wordsworth, yale, Yale English. Paul de Man
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Gloomy Monday in Santa Barbara Brightened by Lunch at Fresco and Musings on the Literary-Critical Landscape of UCSB English in the 1990s (Another Victorian Chick Ars Critica)
Gloomy gray days don’t bother me; I find them oddly comforting and generally energizing but not today. I am loving the Trader Joe’s mango Greek Yogurt, 5.5 ounces and 120 calories and will go for a big swim and … Continue reading
Posted in Food & Wine, Lifestyle, Literature, Philosophy, School, UCSB, Uncategorized
Tagged book reviews, books and arts, chaucer's books, christopher benfrey, claim of reason, cultural studies, depression, emily dickinson and the problem of others, ethical criticism aesthetics, fresco of santa barbara, grad school, henry james, in pursuit of the ordinary, julie carlson, kant, kantians, kay young, louise fradenberg, martha nussbaum, new criticism, new historicism, paul guyer, philadelphia junto, philip terzian, philosophy and literature, stanley cavell, ucsb, weekly standard, yale school of criticism
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Torrential Rain and Thunder This Friday in LA: Facebook Timeline Rant, the Clare Spark Blog, Life in the Age of Psychoanalysis
I’m at Cafe Vida in Pacific Palisades, my favorite munchkin sighting place in West LA. It’s very loud as the rain and wind have shut down the outdoor dining area and every table is occupied. I’m exhausted, having coughed all … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Lingerie, Literature, Philosophy, Relationships, School, Travel, UCSB, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
Tagged barre method, clare spark blog, cosabella lingerie, cultural studies, death gardens, depression, facebook, freud, friends with kids, greg hilton, lacan, living social, psychoanalysis, purr mission, reflex action and theism, santa barbara, ucsb, will to believe, william james
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Pouring through Books: Fun! Chaucer’s Books Post (George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, J Hillis Miller, Wars between Deconstruction and Cultural Studies…)
I am having a surreal experience. I am at J’s with his son, 7.5, and his ex-stepson, nearly 13, whose 6th grade graduation party I attended a few weeks ago. I have never slept in a house with two kids, … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Literature, Philosophy, UCSB, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged adam bede, aesthetic judgment, aesthetic response, ariadne's thread, assholes in grad school, bronte, celibacy, cultural studies, deconstruction, depression, e cook, eliot, geoffrey hartman, grad misery, identification, j hillis miller, julie carlson, kant's third critique, kay young, lit theory, new historicism, paul de man, richard eldridge, richard helgerson, stanley cavell, theory, villette, yale school of criticism
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