Yesterday I had a Google video chat with a group of Portland high schoolers who had been assigned to read and react to “Exposed” by the teacher of their Media Criticism and Analysis class. As a graduate of Montgomery Blair High School’s Communication Arts Program, which included many classes in Media Literacy that are directly [...]
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So I am having sort of an orgy of my worst Internet tendencies because I’m about to go totally offline — no phone or electricity even! – for five days starting Friday. In the interest of Getting It Out Of My System I made a Formspring.me page, where people can ask me anonymous questions. I [...] Cooking the Books — Episode 4 — Jami Attenberg from The Awl on Vimeo. It’s not hard, we know, but I still think that my mastery of the art of losing is uniquely impressive. Whenever I buy or am given any big-ticket item, I lose or break it almost immediately. With rare exceptions, any big expenditure on my part turns out to be a mistake or a waste, usually [...] Instead of lying here in bed at dawn compulsively composing then deleting mind-emails to personal heroes that will strike the exact right tone of non-cloying self-effacement and non-obsequious flattery that will move them to consider blurbing (awful word) my book, I thought I would write about my dinner, and some other things I consumed yesterday. (A [...] My little brother who lives in Asheville stayed with me all last week. Asheville is only 690 miles away from New York City but it’s not just physical distance that comes between me and my brother; having him around reminded me constantly that I spend so much of my time caring about and knowing about [...] “is to stop getting caught up in my own thoughts, cause I’m like way too introspective, I think … but what if not thinking turns me into this really shallow person? I better rethink this becoming less introspective thing.” (via Bennett) |
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