January 2012
5 posts
Keep hoping machine running. →
For the new year, I’ve decided to revive some old habits—foremost among them the act of writing on paper. This is not that. But in my experience writing just begets more writing, so it’s likely that…
December 2011
6 posts
Computers, cocktails. →
Last night D and I watched Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970), a charming technothriller in which a Scientist makes a supercomputer, the US government hooks up all its missiles to the…
Dreamin'. →
Typically transparent anxiety dreams all night: university presses have started up for-fee self-publishing lines to supplement flagging sales, and, having no word on the status of my manuscript in…
What babies are for. →
This is a question that, as you might imagine, has been on my mind lately. Fortunately, this excellent TED talk by Alison Gopnik has largely answered the question for me. In short, babies are for…
Give a dog a bone. →
D bought Daisy this gigantic, meaty, brontosaurus-sized bone at the pet store this morning. She’s been working on it all morning. She didn’t even want to abandon it to take her walk. Then, a few…
treats →
Here we are. →
Remember that time I got pregnant and stopped updating the Procrastination Salon? Since firing this thing up, I’ve managed to procrastinate fairly regularly through all kinds of things—dissertating,…
November 2011
7 posts
“Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is...”
– George Saunders (Thank you, wait-what? & devilduck)
October 2011
10 posts
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I love Bon Iver’s cover of The...
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sulking →
September 2011
7 posts
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My lazy unconscious. →
Last night I dreamt I had the baby and it was a girl and it was evil. It was like two days old and it wouldn’t breastfeed and it could talk and it kept demanding pizza. I couldn’t get it to keep its…
this is rolling →
August 2011
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Tipey typey type. →
You will never guess where I am, so do not even try. I am on an heirloom pig farm in the middle of nowhere, New York. My being here is due to my parents, who, in addition to bringing me forth into…
How my husband ruined my unhappiness. →
So D has this theory about a certain trend in representations of hardscrabble American life that he has called “miserablism.” It is best articulated in his review for the Arkansas Times of the…
July 2011
4 posts
HEY →
Remember me? Things have been busy around here, hence the neglected Salon. Book revisions (blerg); D got a job (YAY); reading my way straight through the entire extant Song of Ice and Fire; and,…
roofers →
June 2011
10 posts
Chinese Male Cheerleader Brings It On →
Here’s a video of an unidentified male cheerleader performing a dance routine at China’s Shandong University. There are several female cheerleaders in the video, too, but you won’t notice them.
“One of my responsibilities as Commander in Chief is to keep an eye on robots....”
– President Obama talking to the National Robotics Engineering Center at Carnegie Mellon. (via juliasegal)