As a native English speaker, I can say with a hand on my heart that my grammar is crap. I was never taught the inner workings of my language until I was forced to in order to attain an English teaching certificate. Now, I can’t get enough of the scientific dissection of the language; but […]
Lessons on Joy from Carnival
La Plata, Argentina — On a crisp and cloudless, pre-autumnal night in the beginning of March, a little less than a week after Ash Wednesday and the close of Carnival, we stroll under stars that poke through the orange haze of the cities’ light pollution and the towering Eucalyptus trees lining the walkways of El […]
The Esthetics of Holler
Dark, small, confined place. One spectator to enter the performance space. Female voice saying the text using different rhythms and degrees of volume. Words and sentences can be repeated at random. Different ways of screaming at random. Intermittent video projected images (of anything, preferably home movies) on various fluid surfaces, at least […]
POSTMODERN LITERATURE:
BECKETT AND MORGAN – TWO PERSPECTIVES ON POSTMODERNISM It may be that some rough beast will slouch again toward Bethlehem. It may be that some natural cataclysm, or extraterrestrial intelligence will shock the Earth into some sane planetary awareness of its destiny. I have no prophecy in me, only some slight […]
Sports, Destruction, and Community
The Saints didn’t make it to the SuperBowl again this year. New Orleanians are used to disappointment, and sadly, we’ve also gotten used to living among the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina and the flood. While we look forward to Mardi Gras, we can’t help but wonder if Chicago fans will again engage in riotous […]
History of the World – Part II
As you will remember from our previous chapter of “The Mid-Western History of the World”, just over seven thousand years ago Adam and Eve were deceived in the Garden of Eden by the theories of the evil serpent Charles Darwin and his corrupt, British sense of humour. Their indiscretions were punished by the Lord who […]