Up until relatively recently, this blog had a title, and the title was Scribal Tattoo. I wasn't particularly attached to the name, which is a shallow pun on "tribal tattoo": I'm the scribe, obviously, and while I'm not more tattooed than your average writer, my identity as a tattooed person goes all the way back… Continue reading Tattoos for English Majors
Category: The Internet is a Text too
Pandora’s Music Box
In 2015, when my friends were curating Spotify playlists to listen to on their smartphones, I still listened to CDs and the same three Pandora stations I created when I registered in 2009 and could only seed channels with musical concepts. One of my stations was exclusively for classical and modernist instrumentals--study music. One featured… Continue reading Pandora’s Music Box
On strong being the “new” pretty
I drafted this post months ago when the posts linked below were posted; just now got around to fleshing out the text I wanted to quote. At The Daily Dot, Anne Thériault addressed the implications of hashtags like #StrongIsTheNewPretty and #StrongIsTheNewSkinny in the context of current media depictions of so-called Strong Female Characters (with a shout-out… Continue reading On strong being the “new” pretty
More questionable interpretations of Lolita
Sometimes I start a post and then it just sits in my draft box until some relevant circumstance wakes it up and sets it free. In this case: some time ago, back when I was re-watching Scandal with my visiting friend, this same friend mentioned that she'd recently read Lolita and was blown away. Reading Lolita… Continue reading More questionable interpretations of Lolita
Elsewhere on the Internet: Writing in Public
Did you know that it is NaPoWriMo? Last year I challenged myself to read a poem every day, since I knew I'd be too busy to write so many and too shy to share. This year I made no such committment, but fortunately I follow a few poets who are churning them out, so I… Continue reading Elsewhere on the Internet: Writing in Public
Starting to like Booklikes
It took me some time to initiate this move, but I finally imported my booklist from Goodreads to Booklikes. And I am happy in my new home. You can check out my book log here: http://literarysara.booklikes.com/ For the moment, it defaults to a blog view, which is kind of funny, since I already have a blog--two,… Continue reading Starting to like Booklikes
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