Round Two.

Do you ever find yourself wondering what I do with my free time? I didn’t think so. But now you want to know, don’t you? Sometimes I do productive things. And other times I do things like this:

For context: Jim Groom shaved his hair off this week, and is now the proud owner of a spiky head. You can see the haircut here.

(The first step is admitting you have a problem.)
After a tiring evening of assorted geekery, I found myself engaged in conversation with a friend. The usual kind of late night conversation. Languid, wandering, tangential. And full of unexpected thoughts that eventually inspired this post on my film blog.
But what about this inspiration? Suddenly I found myself on fire. It took me completely off guard. Surprise! It’s four in the morning, and one minute I’m half awake, ready to collapse on the couch, and the next minute I’m up and engaged, …

I have a friend. Actually, I have more than one, but this particular one is special. We both started out as psychology majors, then made the switch to English. And we both have an intense passion for film. I’d never really analyzed this before, and perhaps it was the tangential late night mentality, but I suddenly wondered if this was significant.
Why?
Is there a connection between these variables? Or just coincidence?
What is it about film that draws us, specifically, in?
Film is a combination of the two, which is why we find …

Submit to Spindle, a new online arts journal run by five students from the University of Mary Washington. Spindle’s special adviser is Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Claudia Emerson.
We accept poetry, prose, art, photography, graphic design, music, film, video art, animation, dance, theatre, performance art, craft work, jewelry, fashion/costume design, and textile art.
Visit our website at http://www.spindlejournal.org/ for submission guidelines.

So here’s my book cover for My Year of Meats. Enjoy!
(The Japanese writing behind her is an assortment of chapter headings from the original text of The Pillow Book, something that both female protagonists are influenced by.)

Filched from my Asian American Lit blog. Interesting how Uncanny Valley just keeps turning up. New Media Studies, the recent adaptation of Beowulf, Asian American Literature… perhaps this is an issue that will become increasingly relevant as our technology advances. Is it time to re-address the issue of replacement? Can people celebrate art while feeling threatened?
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I can’t believe that nobody has posted about this before now, but hey, more fun for me! Asian ball-jointed dolls are a fascinating phenomenon, and their popularity is now widespread in this country as well. …

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