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– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Beatrix Potter, Marcel Duchamp, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

– STATE OF THE WEEK –
Indiana.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
Where would you like to see the 2016 Summer Olympics hosted? (If you’re from Chicago and you list Chicago, list at least one alternative… not to hate on Chicago or anything, it’s just I know how half of you are likely to go here.)

I want to exploit you.

Not really, but I’ve been spending the last eighty minutes revising (for the nine millionth time) the first page of my novel/thesis project Adrift in the Mainstream, and it’s one of those situations where I’ve dissected and reassembled the damn thing so many times I feel completely unable to track it.

This project is an informal discussion of modernism and postmodernism, ultimately to be applied to the larger Gothic Funk debate. A more detailed description of the project is available here. PLEASE ADD YOUR COMMENTS AND JOIN THE DEBATE:

Paragraph 5, Sentence 6:

In this context, modernist idealism seemed a tepid evasion of the work, and the pleasure, of engaging that alientating bourgeois culture.

– JULY – is Blueberries month.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Alexandre Dumas fils, Gary Gygax, Juliana Hatfield, and Emily (who probably doesn’t read this blog).

– LINK OF THE WEEK –
Bud to Blossom: Last week, Sumara stumbled into our conversation on Dead Man’s Chest.

– TIGERS – In Las Vegas betting circles, the Tigers have been calculated as the team second most likely to win the World Series. They’re just behind the Mets, which means they’re effectively expected to lead the American Series. Of course, Nevada doesn’t have a team to root for, so that comes in to play (doubtless).

Lest I look back on this thing in a year and think I wasn’t paying attention to what Jeff Danziger calls “the beginning of World War III.”

Gemma has some worthwhile thoughts on the subject.

Like so many issues (see Dead Man’s Chest below), the ability to take a truly informed stance on an issue is outstripped by the number of issues that compete for a truly informed stance.

I feel the itch.

END OF POST.

– UNDERSTANDING POSTMODERNISM –
Will be posted today at around 7 PM, EST.

– JULY – is Foreign Languages month.
– TODAY – is Rat Catchers Day.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Cody!

– QUOTE OF THE WEEK –
“Woe is me of the shilling of the armpit… It is of the form of an apple, like the head of an onion, a small boil that spares no-one.

In the end, I liked Round Two of Discussion at lot more than Round One. There’s something sexy and exciting about being challenged, to say nothing of being schooled, but nobody enjoys being dismissed. So I’m ready now to give some ground.

This project is an informal discussion of modernism and postmodernism, ultimately to be applied to the larger Gothic Funk debate. A more detailed description of the project is available here. PLEASE ADD YOUR COMMENTS AND JOIN THE DEBATE:

Paragraph 5, Sentence 5:

If the image really conveys a distinctive reality, if collage articulates a poetic logic unencumbered by discursive rationality, and if the activity of the work somehow establishes an ethos with the power to reform society, it makes perfect sense to devote oneself to the unconscious to cultivate startling, apparently random connections among particulars, to experiment with automatic writing or other strategies for disclosing aspects of that authorial presence occluded by common sense, and to insist on art as the theatrical disruption of bourgeois hopes and conventions.