voncookie | June 11, 2010
On the recent flight to Hometown, NJ from Liberal Paradise, I discovered a few very interesting things: It can take me upwards of a half an hour to read ONE POEM, even if it’s a poem I’ve read dozens of times before. A HALF HOUR!!! WTF?!?! Those same poems, again, even if I’ve read them [...]
voncookie | December 12, 2009
11:15 a.m. My grandmother things I’m done with my dissertation. She thinks I’m Dr. vonCookie. I didn’t have the heart to explain to her about the difference between “graduation” and “filing.” I got the feeling she was disappointed in me. Why? Because when I walked in the door, she called me “doctor”; I didn’t have [...]
voncookie | November 29, 2009
Let’s imagine a situation in which a student says that a literary symbol is the rough equivalent of 1 = 1, where 1 is identical to 1 and ONLY to one. Now let us imagine a situation where a person who has studied the subject for a significantly longer period of time– the teacher –disagrees [...]
voncookie | January 16, 2008
Tonight I watched a film adaptation of Federico García Lorca’s 1934 play Yerma, and all I can really say is: ¡Ay! (And not in a good way…) Yerma is part of the Rural Trilogy, comprised of Bodas de Sangre (1932), Yerma, and La casa de Bernarda Alba (1935) (about which I wrote an entry last [...]
