east west

it's just so circuitous

A few disturbing things have come this way recently.

One: A moving skyscraper in Dubai. I cannot get it out of my mind, but it seems to me that if this is Mr. Italian Architect's first attempt at a skyscraper, perhaps he should try to cut his teeth on something a little less animate? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7472722.stm

Two: Sometimes...the Appalachians seem so out of touch.

Three: The sole reason that one of my Iraqi students is in America is that our hospitals are advanced enough to handle what we indirectly did to him a year ago. And - now that he's here, he has to register with selective service. For what? Oh yes, to go back to Iraq, in a much different capacity than he left. We broke you, we fixed you, now you will fight for us.

Four: Dave Eggers' "There Are Some Things He Should Keep to Himself". Five blank pages does not constitute art.

posted by jessica @ 11:26 AM