February 2008
64 posts
“…blogging is is just the apotheosis of the personal essay, the logical heir to 500 years of work by proto-bloggers such as Montaigne, Charles Lamb, G.K. Chesterton, Dorothy Parker, and E.B. White.”
—Sam Anderson, New York Magazine, in a review of the book Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks from The Wild Web, an anthology of blogs, including a retelling of Homer’s epic The Iliad by a 32 year-old neuroscientist writing on his lunch breaks. Ah the wonderful world of blogs.
Thom Yorke heads Big Ask campaign to cut down CO2 →
guardian.co.uk
Radiohead’s Thom Yorke doing his bit for the environment. Trying to lessen his carbon footprint makes touring a headache, he says.
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Jean-Philippe Delhomme's website →
jphdelhomme.com
It’s always funny to find your friend in cyber space. I was just reading Sarah from Colette’s guest blog on the NY Times and she mentioned meeting the “legendary illustrator Jean-Philippe Delhomme!” Check out his website. I think his work is fantastic, and he is such a humble, funny person. He is moving to New York for a year with his whole family, starting in the fall.
I thought about Mom tonight. She must feel as though she is losing her mooring. She fears being cast adrift once Dad is gone. He has been her constant companion and caretaker for nearly 60 years. The only time they separated was when she took us children to America on her own thirty years ago. But then, she knew that somehow Dad would make it out of Vietnam and join her eventually. I remember at the refugee camp in Guam, everyday she would wait for the bus bringing the new arrivals. She scanned the faces of the new refugees, hoping to find Dad, or someone she knew whom she could ask for news of him. Most of the time nobody had any reliable information to tell her, but she never wavered in her belief that he would find his way to her, which he did miraculously. And now he is really leaving her. I don’t know whose anguish is greater, the one leaving or the one left behind.
Why the media will hound the girls - but leave the boys alone →
guardian.co.uk
Good article on the culture media’s obsession with girls gone wild. Vanessa is right about setting up better role models for our girls. I’m all for your Girl Crush, Vanessa.
“I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, rend the hardest monuments of man’s pride.”
—William James
Spent a lovely evening at Vanessa and Simon’s. The kids made pizza. Vanessa introduced us to Carolyn, who is lovely. She is opening a shop/gallery in Greenpoint in a couple of weeks. Best of luck to Carolyn’s and Vanessa’s projects.
