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– JESSICA – Starts her new job at New York Presbyterian doing Cancer research today. Congratulations Jess!

– WEEKEND – On Friday after work I had a bit of time before having to meet Jess. I walked to the Union Square Barnes & Noble and spent a half-hour poring over glossy photos of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Big Book With Three Pages for Every Year of Rock History Since 1950.

Well, I’m embarking on my next blitzkreig novel-writing project. This one will be a Zombie story, estimated length: 80,000 words, to be completed in the next month.

ZOMBIE ASPECTS:
My research is not extensive… I’ve brushed up by reading Max Brooks’ The Zombie Survival Guide and by watching or re-watching the four Romero Dead movies.

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A century later, postmodernism would find itself obliged to posit various ways of undermining those ideals of self-legislation, forcing the arts back into their uncomfortable social contexts and foregrounding their intersections with “popular culture.”

– YESTERDAY – I spent the morning cleaning and doing financial junk, and then most of the afternoon watching zombie movies. I’ve now seen the official George Romero canon, and feel more-or-less equipped to start my zombie novel. More on that soon.

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The noblest acts of mind would be those resisting the triumphant bourgeois order by positing forms of spiritual activity that neither fell back on religious superstition nor curried the favor of the newly dominant audiences.

– YESTERDAY – Got home from work, did some work, has a nice dinner with Jess (salad and tomato soup followed by wine and fondue) and watched Wes Anderson’s Bottle Rocket.
On other fronts, it’s supposed to rain across most of the northeast today, the Tigers lost (again) to the Yankees, but the Pistons are still barely holding on.

Nobody ever comments when I talk about the music I’m listening to, and besides, I don’t know sufficiently little that any assertation is somewhere between risky and a shot in the dark.

Now: What can you tell me about this?:

I chose the Maurice Denis Visitation mainly for its color and immediacy. I remember in 12th grade I was reading a cheap Bible and illustrating the margins as I went. Before Joseph was abducted and taken to Egypt, I drew a discarded pizza box and a stack of Rocky and Bullwinkle videos.

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That concept of modernity proposed much more individualist and stylized versions of Enlightenment lucidity which might resist its mythology of progress, its commitment to empiricist and utilitarian values, and above all its affiliations with a sensationalized and superficial popular culture.

– FIRST – Have you checked out the comments action on this blog yesterday and this morning? I realize this is probably just a brief burst of early summer feistiness, but it’s absolutely wonderful. I’ve just been schooled by Milligan and alan1 and rioted over by Monty Hall.