Frisbees
I got sort of obsessed with two stacks of frisbees on Laura & Mark’s back deck. The dirty, bright plastic disks contrasted so starkly with the half-green, half-dead grassy expanse behind their house. This was one of my favorite shots. There are more.
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current book: Nearly halfway through with The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. The book itself might be nearly perfect. My problem is that I don’t have a deep or inherent connection to comic books, and I really really really want that to better appreciate this book. I’ve long been fascinated with the American idea of the superhero, especially Superman, but I’ve never really taken that fascination into any serious study of comic books. Kavalier & Clay is, so far, a rich and expansive fictional exploration of the beginnings of the the comic superhero in the 1930s. I just want to love it more, if that makes sense.
current music: Neko Case, Live from Austin TX. LOVE IT. She does a bunch of songs from her first album, Canadian Amp, which was the only album to her name when I saw her on my birthday years ago at the now-defunct Volcano Room in Indianapolis. My girl-crush on her grows and grows. Up next, a few CDs I bought at Waterloo Records yesterday: Spoon’s Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, The Spinto Band’s nice and nicely done, and Jamie Lidell’s Multiply.
current socks: Yesterday I wore my new fair isle SmartWools in a lovely brown and green design. Today, relatively boring red SmartWools with an abstract snowflake design. But boring won’t matter in a few hours when the temperatures drop from 45F to 5F. Can’t wait for that.
Posted 29 January 2008
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Love this photo. Like rustic brightly colored upside down dinner plates. It always comes back to food for me.
Kavalier and Clay. Fantastic book. Went on a Chabon binge before the move.
And totally agree about the wishing I knew more….
As well as not having a comic book penchant…