Hurray for Three Day Weekends
Tomorrow is Monday and I am off! I think tonight when kids get back from BFI's I will take them to see Coraline. Went out Friday AND Saturday night and am exhausted! I am however going out to peruse the poetry section of Barnes and Noble before kids get back, and perhaps buy a new vacuum cleaner, whoo hoo, at Sears. Went out with co-workers on Friday, including the lovely Linder Loo, and ended up salsa dancing in a club called Havanna. Yesterday was my friend Miriam Stanley's book launch party at the Bowery Poetry Club. Made a new poet mommy friend, ate Korean food, and generally had an EXCELLENT time. Sometimes I really love my life! The clip below is amazing...enjoy!
Tomorrow is Monday and I am off! I think tonight when kids get back from BFI's I will take them to see Coraline. Went out Friday AND Saturday night and am exhausted! I am however going out to peruse the poetry section of Barnes and Noble before kids get back, and perhaps buy a new vacuum cleaner, whoo hoo, at Sears. Went out with co-workers on Friday, including the lovely Linder Loo, and ended up salsa dancing in a club called Havanna. Yesterday was my friend Miriam Stanley's book launch party at the Bowery Poetry Club. Made a new poet mommy friend, ate Korean food, and generally had an EXCELLENT time. Sometimes I really love my life! The clip below is amazing...enjoy!
posted by MJ at 2:25 PM
4 Comments:
Whew, I never heard Sylvia reading her own poetry, amazing. Dehumanizing. Sort of describes life in Binderland, and many other firms, I'm sure, as well as many personal relationships. I am simply blown away, Mary Beth! But she sounds and looks so old. Didn't Sylvia die young, sucide, Mary Lou? Tragic.
I had fun on Friday, it was so nice to see you. But a pax on you for going out salsa dancing when I had to go home to bed. Did G&C go dancing too?How is your own book coming along?
Sylvia Plath was 30, I think, when she died. She stuck her head in an oven. What a stupid loss. G and C did go dancing. It was all lots of fun, and kind of weird. Book is good. It was so good to see you too LL!
Wow, did you dance with G????? Was C so pissed?
How sad to think that such a talented wonderful woman killed herself. But I guess her sensitivity/depression were what made her such a great writer and role model for the women's movement? Well maybe role model is the wrong term, since she took her own life. But she was sort of a beacon don't you think? The Bell Jar is so upsetting and wonderful...
I did not dance with G! I think Sylvia's perfectly expressed anger is what made her into an icon for women, conveying a universal anger. The Bell Jar is one of my favorite books!
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