bitte, bitte

"... craft oriented attention to making and display could be said to owe a debt to the typically female artists exploring these genres and to the socially invested political aspirations of their work."
just something to think about, liz, when you do all your girly-ass crafts

Well, my heart begins to fly like a dove When I take a double shot of my baby's love - the swingin' medallions



i'm reading one of my favorite books again: 'Of Human Bondage,' by W. Somerset Maugham. i read it long ago when i lived in portland, oregon. i take notes in the margins of fiction books that i read, so i bought another copy to read. that way, i can take new notes, and compare them when i'm done to see a weird reflection of 'cross-country alex five years ago'. isn't that a good personal project? the book is old fashioned and stuffy but i love it.

"He honestly mistook his sensuality for romantic emotion, his vacillation for the artistic temperment, and his idleness for philosophic calm."

"It was a strange life, dark and tortured, in which mena and women showed to remorseless eyes the evil that was in their hearts: a fair face concealed a depraved mind; the virtuous used virtue as a mask to hide their secret vice, the seeming-strong fainted within with their weakness; the honest were corrupt, the chaste were lewd."

i was reading it in a coffee shop last week and some guy chatted me up about it, but he was using all these off-putting english major words and his commentary style was pedantic. i decided to tell him maugham was my favorite author, and that i liked this book because it was so wonderfully LONG [which is true], and he was like "But The Razor's Edge isn't long, and Cakes and Ale is short!" That reaction was funny to me!!!!

ok, bye!