A woman's body, with its thousand and one thresholds of ardor-once, by smashing yokes and censors, she lets it articolate the profusion of meanings that run through it in every direction-will make the old single-grooved mother tongue reverberate with more than one language...

Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and codes, they must submerge, cut through get beyond the ultimate reserve-discourse, including the one that laughs at the very idea of pronouncing the word "silence", the one that aiming for the impossible, stops short before the word "impossible" and writes it as "the end."

--helene cixous 'the laugh of the medusa'

So I should be working harder on this than I am, but I promised myself I'd get to it. Right now I just wanted to update quickly and say that although I chose cixous for my paper, well her and derrida... I'm not exactly tearing through her writing and finding a lot of analytical work. The woman means what she says when she advocates contradictory statements about language. It seems, at this early stage in the game, that my understanding of her is that through a system of hegemonic sublation women have been repressed in their sexuality and their writing, forced to participate in a masculine system of writing that does not work in the same logic that ecriture feminine (feminine writing) does.

It's worth exploring. And so I'm off, to gather my mosquito netting and dress my elephant... let exploration begin!

There I was surrounded by people looking more like each other than they do like me.
I wonder if jesus went to parties like this when he was in college.
Himself a young man hoping to hit on some rich jewish princess,
...score himself some latkes.
Probably.


its a good thing that im not a star, you don't know how lucky you are.

there are some real gems in the world.. but more often then not all you get is fools gold

i won CSI the board game tonight. I dont even really like board games. But hey, what wouldnt i do for christina? i mean really? =-)

yeah so this picture is really cute... i am such a sucker for the 'bad' guy... you tramps!

 

hmm pre-arranged marriage at it's finest?  

I know you I walked with you once upon a dream... Sigh, so here I am on this miserable day playing around with disney pictures when there is work to be done. But perhaps that is the very best time for them. It would be kinda kool to sleep in a room like that... however I don't quite look that peaceful when I sleep, no would I enjoy being practically outside. What if someone evil came in and kissed me-- LIKE SHREK! OH god. That'd be terrible, I mean- Mike M is funny and all, but I liked him much better as Austin Powers, and I still wouldnt want him kissing me in my sleep. Creepy. Alright time for lunch... enjoy you're 'gaze'. 

You Are a Liberal for Life

For you, liberal means being compassionate, pro-government, and anti-business. You believe in equality for every person, and you consider yourself universally empathetic. Helping others is not just political for you ... it's very personal too.

What political persuasion are you?

who knew?