Tired (More Links and Half-Thoughts)
I got back into town last night and haven't quite recovered from the month-long trip. I'm trying to get my apartment cleaned up, groceries bought, laundry done, etc. Oh, and tons of academic work, too. I'm just sluggish. Ah well. Maybe blogging some quotidian thoughts and occurrences will help.
A good friend of mine at home was ranting about these ribbons on people's cars that are arranged so that the text, "Support Our Troops," is horizontal. "Yeah, I sure am glad they made it so we can see the text horizontally. I wouldn't have been able to read it otherwise. Seriously! People can read all kinds of ways: Diagonally, vertically, backwards even!" Indeed it is ubiquitious. Here in Minnesota too, I've noticed. Is there some special reason to stick it to the car that way that I'm not aware of?
The Blogora might switch to Drupal. How hard is it going to be to import the MT archives? Anyone have firsthand experience with that?
When I went to the office to check my mailbox, I found the 2005 reprinting of the 6th edition of the MLA style guide. I guess as it's a reprinting, they didn't make any changes or addenda, but I looked for any mention of citing weblog entries and comments anyway, but didn't find any. I know there are improvised ways to do it, but I'd like to see weblogs mentioned in the actual guide.
Computers & Writing Online is in full swing! Be sure to comment!
I just finished reading Franny and Zooey for the first time. That's got me a little drained, too. The whole time I was reading it, I was thinking that it would have made a great movie, maybe still would. What do you think? Thora Birch as Franny, or possibly Christina Ricci? Tobey Maguire, or maybe Joaquin Phoenix as Zooey? Speaking of books, I never did take that trip, so I didn't listen to those books -- actually, I listened to exactly half of The Picture of Dorian Gray just driving around town (my Oxford World's Classics edition has 224 pages. I looked, and I'd listened up to page 112), and now I have to read the rest. So far, my literature consumption since the beginning of May includes:
- The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
- Passing, Nella Larsen
- Jazz, Toni Morrison
- Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger
- and half of The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
Not bad, huh? I should get back to research-related non-fiction though.
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Franny and Zooey
I can't picture F&Z as a movie, even if Salinger would allow it, which of course he wouldn't. I've always imagined it as a three-act play. I'm not sure how to handle the move from the station to the restaurant in act one, but apart from that, there's very little change of scenery, and movies have this need to move around more. Besides, I like plays set in bathrooms. Of course, in a movie it would be easier to get away with having Buddy narrate.
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Yeah, it certainly occurred to me that the only reason it isn't a movie is that Salinger wouldn't allow it. I agree that it would work great as a play; I had thought about that too.