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John Ashbery
A poem that communicates something that’s already known to a reader is not really communicating anything
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Good Earth Tea
I started drinking this tea while reading the Oprah Book Club selection of the same name. The book was great – dark, cynical, big themed & simply written. The tea however is even better – it makes me get all philosophical. I spend time thinking about how I interacted with people – I think about…
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Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth – Chris Ware
Absolutely amazing. This depressed me for three complete days. The loneliness, isolation, complete inability to communicate, the historical sweep, interconnectedness – everything thing about this is completely amazing. I do not know how Ware is able to do this – and one amazing aspect of his work is the post-modern self confidence of everything that…