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07/06/2004 Archived Entry: "What I'm Doing"
What I'm Doing
Reading The Wind Up Bird Chronicle. Ooooh. A novel I like.
Reading Nedra Reynolds' Geographies of Writing. Hmmm. I'm interested in place and writing (particularly Detroit), but so far I'm not getting much out of this book. She can summarize other writers on either place or issues of the visual (some texts I'm not sure belong here), but what is she bringing to the table that I don't know yet? The chapter on the flaneur feels a bit flat. Rather than tell me a little of what Benjamin says about the flaneur (and she completely leaves out the Baudelaire book, touching only a tiny bit on the Arcades), show me how the student today can or is a flaneur. A lot missing regarding the flaneur and the digital as well. See Sirc. See a bit of what I wrote. How do collections work when we write with place? How do collections work in the cyber as place?
Building a compost pile (pointers from Edbauer).
Watching the second season of the Sopranos (better late than never, eh?)
Wondering how I can get some unripe olives so I can do my own curing.
Praying the Heat don't trade Caron Butler
Wondering how my cat manages to smack her lips to indicate she's hungry.
