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Category Archives: Philosophy
Catch-Up Blog from Visalia, CA and Musings on “(Dis)Grace Under Pressure” by Role/Reboot Author Lauren Hermanson
Yet again, life seems to have interfered with blogging. I have two half-written blogs, one on Marin County and one on the 4th Annual Veuve Clicquot Will Rogers Polo Classic, but since my last blog I’ve seen Alan Alda and … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Lifestyle, Literature, Philosophy, Politics, Relationships, UCSB, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
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Preliminary Notes on David Shields’ “How literature saved my life”: Reading and Swimming my Way through Labor Day
It a blissfully quiet Saturday morning in Santa Barbara at J’s condo. I arose at 6:30AM because that’s just what I do unless I’ve been up until 1AM or later, and made coffee to sip on the upper deck. I … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Literature, Philosophy, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged Adam Phillips, Borders, Boundaries and Frames, David Shields, Harvard English Institute 1992, How literature saved my life, Kathryn Hellerstein, literary criticism, literary theory, Nancy Miller, psychoanalysis
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Part I of NYC/Cape Cod Trip Blog and Week in LA (Dance, Blue Jasmine, Flat Tires, Bank Incompetence, PMS Lethargy and Reconnect with Childhood Classmate)
My ambitious writing hopes for the past few days were foiled by a tire blowout on the 101 freeway in Westlake Village, midway between LA and SB. I was lucky to get over to the outside shoulder from the left … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Fashion, Film, Lifestyle, Literature, Philosophy, Relationships, School, St. Augustine, Travel, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls
Tagged Barrington, Blue Jasmine, Cate Blanchett, country clubs, James Bond, Landmark Cinema, luigi jazz dance centre, nyc, RI, Sammy Davis Jr, Something's Gotta Give, upper east side, Wianno Club, woody allen
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A Banner Week in NYC: ChristinaNoel & The Creature, Cabaret Cares’ Help is on the Way, Ben Vereen Laguardia Tribute, Cape Spin!: An American Power Struggle, and Friday Night Tea and Rest to Recover
It’s been a whirlwind week of cabaret, music, dance, food and fortuitous meetings. I won’t blog about it all tonight but wanted just to report on what–apart from two beastly hot days and then a flash flood warning yesterday–has … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Food & Wine, Lifestyle, Literature, Music, Philosophy, St. Augustine, Television, Theater, Travel, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
Tagged aesthetics, Ben Vereen, Broadway, Cabaret Cares, Cafe Ronda, Cape Spin!:An American Struggle for Power, Charles Taylor, ChristinaNoel and the Creature, critique of judgment, Fig and Olive, francis roach, German Idealism, hama, hegel, kant, Laguardia High School, Laurie Beechman Theater, luigi, Magic to Do, modern dance, new york city, phenomenology, Pippin, Principles of Psychology, Romanticism, Studio Maestro, Theater La Tea, william james, yelp
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Reflections on Relationships and the Relinquishment of One’s Own High and Pop Cultural Investments, or The Challenges of Living a Life of Ideas Outside the Academy
Usually Ollie prefers the ottoman on which I’ve photographed him numerous times but the sun is so brilliant and warm streaming through the window, he decided to lounge about on the hardwood floor. He often sunbathes on the upper … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Fashion, Film, Food & Wine, Philosophy, Relationships, Television, UCSB, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
Tagged CT, depression, dresses, graduate school, Grey Laswell, grey's anatomy, happiness, literature, money, Morning Glory, music from Grey's Anatomy, new jersey, new york city, parents, relationships, Suits, Tadashi Shoji, tutoring, wealth
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Fun at the Garden Street Academy Holiday Boutique, Donald Marguiles’ Coney Island Christmas at the Geffen Tonight, and Reading Ambitions for 2013
Another rainy day in Santa Barbara but I don’t mind a bit. After a banner Saturday (minus swim) which began with the first professional cleaning of my apartment since February and a warm, wonderful afternoon at Garden Street Academy’s Holiday … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Fashion, Health & Beauty, Lifestyle, Philosophy, Relationships, UCSB, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged afghan whigs, Augustine, autobiography, Christmas, Coney Island Christmas, David Holmes, Donald Marguiles, Donna Leon, edith wharton, Faiths of the Founding Fathers, Garden State Academy, Geffen Playhouse, greg dulli, Hanukah, Jewish Journal, john lithgow, Lisa Duncan Carrillo, memoir, morgan library, porter abbott, reading, rescue me, selfhood, subjectivity, Teresa of Avila, Teri Garr, the weekly standard, theory, theory of autobiography, Virginia Wolf
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Why Posing Nude and Doing Porn Aren’t Equivalent: Amy Biviano’s “Women of the Ivy League” 1995 Playboy Shoot vs. Duke Student’s Porn Career (with Thoughts on Feminism and Feminist Scholarship)
Ed. Note: This is a revised blog from 16 months ago. I was moved to rewrite it in part because my last blog from CA about Gloria Steinem, like the blog about that nitwit feminist writer in Oregon, did surprisingly … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Literature, Philosophy, Politics, UCSB, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
Tagged Amy Biviano, beauty, Cielito, class, class distinctions, class warfare, divorce, donna haraway, elizabeth heckendorn cook, facebook, feminism, feminist criticism, gender, graduate school, grey's anatomy, John donne, julie carlson, katherine philips, money, nudity, Occupy Wall Street, Playboy, rescue me, Ruth Bernard Yeazell, sex, sexuality, the 1%, Women of the Ivy League, Wordsworth
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“The dear woman is having an orgasm over a bracelet: Get her a man!” [Meditation on Money, Inheritance Tax, and the Deeper Aesthetic Pleasures of Jewelry]
My eccentric, literary, retired lawyer/economist FB friend, sailing around the world and currently cruising the American Samoa, does not understand many things in life. He has done everything from climbing tall mountains to biking long distances to riding champion dressage … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Fashion, Lifestyle, Philosophy, Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged aesthetic pleasure, bernard williams, diamond nexus labs, ethics, Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, inheritance tax, jewelry, kant, orgasms, poverty, psychology of money, sex, Swarovski, third critique, yale
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Happy Sunday Night from the Palisades: Friday at the Roosevelt/Public in Hollywood, Robot and Frank at Landmark Theaters, Studio 64 Bar Method in WLA [Full Movie Review of Robot and Frank]
Note: the final two-thirds of this blog contains a detailed review of Robot and Frank, though I do not reveal the ending. I think one can read the review as I have left it and still enjoy the film, unless … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Food & Wine, Philosophy, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged aging parents, alan turing, artificial intelligence, frank langhella, james mars den, john searle, landmark theaters, liv tyler, philosophy of mind, public kitchen, roosevelt, sci-fi, studio 64, susan sarandon, upstate new york
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Victorian Chick’s Philosophy of Yelping (LA, NYC, Santa Barbara) and Remarks about Wasted Political Energy on Facebook
I. Yelp as Vehicle for Bestowing Praise on the Worthy. My Austin friend who gave me the title for last week’s prose ode to Groupon–”Food Stamps for the Upper Class”–inspired this blog as well. I have 9 reviews thus … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Food & Wine, Health & Beauty, Literature, Philosophy, Politics, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged anger, denial, diamond nexus labs, political incivility, political wasted energy, ugly divorces, yelp
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