The Lower Middle-Class vs. Subalterns

More from the trenches. In response to a comment about “making it” as the child of a single-teacher family and working as a medical student, I wrote:
“I’m not rich, didn’t come from money, and yet I am going to make it.”
It’s hereditary lower middle-class, though. My situation is just about dead-on, but while I’m working [...]

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An Argument for College Financial Aid [against] Idiots with Access to Laptops

I was pretty taken-aback reading the discussion that followed an article on the college financial aid system in the USA Today. The argument from a surprising number was essentially that “the government doesn’t exist to pay for your education” and “gee, think of that, having to earn the money to pay for school before attending,” [...]

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Fav. Bookslut on the Inauguration

I have been busy, but I wanted to point you to Colleen Mondor’s thoughts on the inauguration which I thought well-spoken. Having moved just recently from Michigan to rural Florida (Starke in Bradford County), she has already learned what I am first encountering – that is, really, the disparity between theoretical and first-hand social knowledge. Okay, maybe that’s sorta highbrow, but [...]

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[It's spelled F-L-Y] Lit.

So. For one reason or another I just began drawing comparisons between flies in literature – you hear true — something-or-other sparked this engine (buzz-buzz-buzz), but what matters, honestly, is the horror that I’ve stored enough of this slag in readily available memory to even write this crock. I thought I’d share.
From the most recent [read: [...]

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Yevgeny Zamyatin[-and-Mirra] / Evgenii Zamyatin[-and-Clarence]

I’ve wound-up brooding on my purchase of the Penguin Classics We, rather than the Mirra Ginsburg mass-paperback. The novel was pretty comfortable in obscurity until, I think, relatively recently, when it roiled-up in english departments when professors discovered it was first an inspiration to 1984 and, second, wonderful. However it was read in Russian, Mirra Ginsburg anglicized [...]

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Capital-”a” Artist, or so I think.

 
The Jonathan LeVine exhbit of James Jean’s Kindling is all-up after the link. His Toy Maker and Swans are great; Les pointed out that it was all intestines and fallopian tubes. Oh, yeah, James Jean worked a little bit on the Fables comic, which is why I followed a string of links in his direction.

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Some Idle Time with Old-SciFi Tabs & Benjamin Button

Kage Baker launches the first in a series of looks-back at early SciF[l]icks with the Le Voyage dans la Lune. Fun and, really, pretty insightful, what with its iconic mutation from fairytale to sci-fi and whathaveyou. And I had a shameful LoL at the caption to the wounded-moonman picture.
the wounded Man in the Moon bleeding like [...]

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