Wear Clean Draws  (’coz there’s 5 million ways to kill a ceo)

So, to continue with my posts on Michael Pollan’s work, particularly _The Omnivore’s Dilemma_, to give a little more background, apparently when commenting on the book to Dwayne, mostly agreeing with him, I was unaware of the bee’s nest I was stepping on. As in: no idea that Michael Pollan has a zealous fanbase of […]

my spirit animal is a giraffe. yours?
Anyway, as I continued reading _The Omnivore’s Dilemma_ I became increasingly annoyed with Pollan’s romanticism. His decided tendency to insist that his experience is everyone’s experience, that as he says, eating lettuce is like getting rilly rilly close to our herbivorous buddies, deer, cows, giraffes, etc.
Here’s what I posted […]

More ramblings on the things that irritated me about Pollan’s book, _The Omnivore’s Dilemma_. In line with a lot of other “green,” “ecology,” and “animal rights” perspectives, Pollan tends to ignore the role of labor in food production. OK, so the point of his book was to trace food specifically, and not concern himself too […]

I’m going to repost some exchanges that went on regarding an editorial Michael Pollan wrote regarding food security. I’d just picked up Pollan’s book, _The Omnivore’s Dilemma_. I’d spied it on the “new” book shelf at the library and remembered that a couple of people at LBO recommended the book for our book reading group […]

“My community has a problem with homophobia, but we aren’t the only ones. African Americans are but 12 percent of the population. We have neither the numbers nor the power, given our history in this country, to disenfranchise another group. Blaming us for what is an American ill–as prevalent in, say, white Tripoli, Iowa, as […]

Dewds! I’m quite excited by this book, Francois Cusset’s _French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. Transformed the Intellectual LIfe of the United States_. It is not as fantabulous as Janet Halley’s _Split Decisions_, but it is nonetheless a terrific intellectual history of French theory as it was taken up in the United States. […]

i am supposed to be going through all the boxes we brought here from storage, repacking some stuff and organizing, as well as getting rid of what i should no longer be packratting. for instance, i unpacked a box and found some baby power, a brand called “kids” that I probably bought at discount 15 […]

hmmm. couldn’t resist. i visited amazon and this book was screaming at me to buy it, buy it, buy it. I can’t wait to read it and can only hope i have time! i finished a couple of books in the last couple of weeks and am currently reading Katherine Newman’s No Same in My […]

Absolutely nothing exciting going on. I’m just working and reading Matilda’s (AKA MAtt Bernstein’s) edited collection of essays, Nobody Passes. I’ve enjoyed it so far, though M’s distaste for academia irritated a wee bit — though I surely understand it. I guess I’ve been sheltered. I can’t imagine why anyone would think that Bernstein has […]

I’ve been reading more of Maza’s The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie: An Essay on the Social Imaginary, 1750-1850. I came upon her discussion of the phamplets that proliferated on the eve of the French Revolution. She discusses the various evils identified by phamphleteers. One was “An Essay on Privilege” by Abbé Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès, which […]