Comments on guardedly optimistic: a few thoughts

This will, unfortunately, sound pretentious: I use...

2006-10-23T21:34:00.000-04:00

This will, unfortunately, sound pretentious: I used to like to read Nabokov short stories while listening to hip hop mix tapes very loud. I don't think this qualifies for low-culture/high-culture contrast, because I'd argue that certain hip-hop transcends that distinction.

Okay, that did sound really pretentious.

So that's why you race home after every workshop! ...

2006-10-21T12:02:00.000-04:00

So that's why you race home after every workshop! Your secret is out...I mean, it's safe with me.

I guess it all depends on how you rate "low cultur...

2006-10-20T12:05:00.000-04:00

I guess it all depends on how you rate "low culture."

I kind of think NIN and Jim Rose are high culture in kind of the same breath that going to a Williamsburg art gallery opening on a Friday night could be construed either way.

That rocks, Ileen.

2006-10-20T10:43:00.000-04:00

That rocks, Ileen.

I think you have me beat for one evening on a week...

2006-10-20T09:54:00.000-04:00

I think you have me beat for one evening on a weekly basis, but for a one-time event this comes close. In the early 90s I went to a book reading by Martin Amis that was very intellectual in nature. It was in a great old bookstore before the chains ate NYC. From there I went straight to MSG to see Nine Inch Nails in concert. The Jim Rose Circus opened for them. As someone on stage lifted 30 pound weights with his testicles, I remember thinking back to a scant hour before when I was listening to a lively debate between Mr. Amis and someone else in the crowd about the current political scene.

You HAVE to tell me who it is. Email me if you don...

2006-10-20T00:43:00.000-04:00

You HAVE to tell me who it is. Email me if you don't want to post it.

i have a friend in vegas whose husband is an ex-u...

2006-10-19T17:14:00.000-04:00

i have a friend in vegas whose husband is an ex-ultimate fighter. everywhere they go, she's constantly telling dudes, "that my husband will kick your ass," which can sometimes be a problem for him. but most of the time, it's amazing how many guys will step off once they hear what he was, or how many women will step up. that's why i am now training.