Natalia Antonova

Fairy tales (modern, ancient, in-between) go well with spiked lemonade, ale, and honey-wine. Although Gregory Maguire goes better with scotch, and I mean real scotch, none of that donkey piss that is often disguised as scotch. And Kate Atkinson goes well with bubbly. Crime novels and hybrid crime novels go well with red wine. SpivakContinue reading “Read, drink, and be merry”

Is this some artful ass-kickery I see before me?

Hell yeah it is.

Adrift in Wonderland

Hmm. These lines in particular jumped out at me: Our university is unwilling to take on the role of the guiding parent and, in the absence of an administration or student groups who aggressively push morality, some of us have gone adrift. I’m not saying that I want an administrative moral crackdown, but I amContinue reading “Adrift in Wonderland”

Thinking is overrated

But having been complimented so thoroughly by Solnushka, I turn my weary, bloodshot, slightly maniacal gaze to the Thinking Blogger award meme nonetheless. Once you are tapped, you nominate five more blogs. I’m still getting over the fact that someone out there thinks I think – as opposed to experience a series of mundane physicalContinue reading “Thinking is overrated”