Abstraction

http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/010999.html

What? Oh, that? No of course I'm not talking about that. It's just totally abstract.

House

Anyone want to live in the other half of our duplex?

Warning: I get snarly if you pull up the weeds in the yard. Other than that, we're nice.

8-P

Just imagine it like this, only with you + me and Rook and Moomin.

http://www.lensculture.com/pepe.html

CREEPY!!!!

bleach night!

head shaving and roots bleaching night!



had a "hard cider" aka "wine cooler" aka "this is for wusses, where's the vodka and ginger ale"

told best bit of story with "But YOU'RE okay, you have really great upper body strength" and hysterical giggling to Zond-7

Rook made dinner (turkey meatloaf and i think rice?) and I am about to eat some!

Moomin and I got to the chapter where Black Beauty gets bought by a kind sick man but the ostler is a thief and steals the oats. Explained how "corn" actually means oats. Moomin refused 2nd chapter as it was 8:55 and even rounded up from 8:30, there might not be enough time and he really should go to sleep. I asked him how he would be naughty someday. "Ummm... I won't be." "No, really, will you take the car keys and go zooming off? Or what?" "Um..... hahahah... um, mom?" "Hey what if we finish that book on Julia Butterfly Hill?" "I sort of already finished it the other day." "AHA! NAUGHTY!"

I highly recommend the book on Julia Butterfly Hill if you have an environment-saving child who needs encouragement in techniques of naughtiness which I believe may be essential to later developing good habits of civil disobedience.

#1: The House of Bondage: Octavia Victoria Rogers Albert

A while ago I was looking something up on blackpast.com and started browsing their encyclopedia of biographies. Came across Octavia Victoria Rogers Albert and ended up ordering her book, The House of Bondage, or, Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves, first published in 1890.



Rogers tells the stories of her neighbors and friends who came out from under slavery in the Southern U.S. She adds in commentary and some interviewing. The prefaces and introductions alone are enough reason to buy this awesome book as they list out books by black women in the 1800s and explain the thought behind this book series - The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth Century Black Women Writers. Here is a great place to start with some narratives of life on Louisiana plantations, of preaching Protestant sermons and hymns against orders from Catholic masters, of later reuniting & proud parents crying as their sons and daughters graduate from college... Very intense.

The entire Schomburg Library series looks good. They're small pocket books and nicely bound & printed.

I recommend you add to this: "A Voice from the South" by Anna Julia Cooper, which explains intersectionality of gender, and race so well and, fuck, she quotes Madame de Stael and just generally rocks. And "The Value of Race Literature" by Victoria Earle Matthews.

They go well together!