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01.24.07
- I love living in a place that has an Art Shanty Project. The world needs more artistic ice fishing houses.
- I loathe living in a legal system and cultural economy where Kahle v Ashcroft is finally dead. I’d write more about that, but I can’t really say anything that hasn’t been said before. Let’s just reiterate that until there’s an orphan works provision in Title 17, our cultural heritage is screwed.
- I predict that this semester’s reading will involve a ton of diss stuff plus a bunch of John Irving and A.S. Byatt. I read The Cider House Rules in the midst of a bunch of other stuff over the break and right now I’m halfway through Trying to Save Piggy Sneed. A Prayer for Owen Meany and A Widow for One Year are waiting on the shelf. I’ll order more Byatt soon: Elementals and The Djinn in the Nightengale’s Eye.
- You want to see New York Doll, the Arthur “Killer” Kane documentary. Really, you do. Even if you’re not a fan of the Dolls or rock history. It’s not a New York Dolls documentary, which is what I was expecting. Instead, it runs through the necessary background on Arthur and then focuses on his conversion to the Mormon Church, his job in the LDS Family Research Library, and his decision to regroup with the remaining Dolls in 2004, right before his death. The interviews, which are split pretty evenly between the usual suspects and church members he was close to, are remarkable. And Arthur himself is remarkable in many ways, both as a subject and as a person. I cried at the end, and I don’t cry at movies.
- Note to self: You may have thought you were lightly sprinkling the Five Spice powder in last night’s stir fry. In the future, remember that “sprinkling” takes on a whole new definition, proportionately speaking, when Five Spice is involved.
