This is not me joining in the conversation about blogs as genre/medium/mode/conduit/freshly sliced avocado/the air between our ears. This is me sitting in the bathtub and reading Stories from the Nerve Bible and thinking. I’m thinking that lately my blog … Continue reading
GREENFIELD-SANDERS: Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson In prog (15:25 CST): more after class. UPDATE (20:23 CST): OK, so I’ve still only got the same partial post that I started out with. There’s just too much else that must be done … Continue reading
I’ve decided to just accept the fact that any intelligence I might have is going into my papers and presentations right now, which means that none is left over for this space. And I don’t have any time to blog … Continue reading
Alberto Vargas
I wrote something a while back in Scott’s comments about pulp fiction girls and true confessions rags. Yesterday’s post got me thinking about the topic again. Here’s what originally got me started: Scott, writing in Serious Victorianist mode about the … Continue reading
Lust is a woman, baby. Digital Pulp Fiction postcards reside here. The site also features bad boys and gay and lesbian pulp postcards, amongst a host of others. The titles of these things are every bit as good as the … Continue reading
Mostly notes to self for future whatnot: The Eugene Walter Collection resides at Auburn (as does the Truman Capote collection.) There is also an Eugene Walter Archive at U Texas Austin, which includes issues of Botteghe Oscure, which he co-edited … Continue reading
Eugene Walter with an unknown conversationalist on the set of Fellini’s 8 1/2 I took Sociolinguistics last semester from a professor who was raised in upstate New York. She moved to the South about 20 years ago, and is still … Continue reading
Eugene Walter as Mother Superior in Fellini’s Juliet of the Spirits I’ve been reading Eugene Walter’s Milking the Moon lately, instead of other things I should be working on. Walter grew up in Mobile, Alabama, served his WWII army duty … Continue reading
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Welcome to Thinkery, est. 2003. At the moment, I'm an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at Syracuse University. I'm interested in new media, historical conceptions of authorship, and human/machine agency. I write about all of that elsewhere, mostly, and keep this space for other areas of investigation about the world: namely, cooking, gardening, and travel.
