Well, if having her sign her book Reading Lolita in Tehran counts as having met her. I read the book back in June, and was absolutely captivated, and kept it in the back of my mind to see her speak if it ever become remotely possible. And then I found out she was [...]

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Tagged:Azar Nafisi, culture, lectures

Just to say, school really gets in the way of movie-watching. So expect pretty pathetic review recaps for the next couple of years, apparently. Even the films I did watch, I seem to have been highly distracted while watching them, so I hesitated to even mention them, but I did anyway. So [...]

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Tagged:Closely Watched Trains, Gandhi, High School Musical, Shopgirl, The Last Kiss

One of these days I shall have a lot to say about adaptation. Unless I burn myself out first on the paper I’m writing about Jane Austen adaptations. But I expect I shan’t, because adaptation is one of the few subjects I find endlessly fascinating.
Anyway, one of the more amusing review vignettes I [...]

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Tagged:criticism, Jane Austen

Okay, I know St. Louis weather is freaky. But I thought Texas would be a little more…stable. Yesterday? Must’ve been 90 degrees. Walking to school and back twice used up two shirts, lets just put it that way. Then today, I start to walk outside, and get hit in the face [...]

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This could be a neat opportunity. *files in brain as post-graduation possibility*

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Noooo! Stop remaking Hitchcock films, people! That way lies badness!

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I fail at cooking.
So I’m doing Hamburger Helper, right? Simple, right? Just brown the beef, throw in the noodles and sauce mix, simmer for 15 minutes, right? Well, to start with, I had frozen the beef a couple of weeks ago. Planning ahead (!), I put it in the refrigerator yesterday [...]

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No, not for the libraries here. For the ones in St. Louis. Seriously, folks, St. Louis has one of the top library systems in the country, and I already knew that, but my attempts to locate a copy of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1963 GROUND-BREAKING FILM Contempt in Waco has really made me appreciate St. [...]

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Tagged:library, St. Louis