– POSTMODERNISM –
I am not ignorant of the fact that I’ve really dropped the ball on this discussion in the last couple weeks, having only posted a few sentences, and I don’t think I’ve commented in quite awhile either.

Evidently not only will one’s various junior high romantic entanglements drop out of high school and make a mess of their collective lives, but even one’s early celebrity crushes, seen on the Disney channel at the hazy age of eight, will plummet from the heights of fuzzy hip hop positivity to the depths of nü-skank aesthetic.

– ADRIFT POST –
Thanks for your comments and suggestions!

– WEATHER –
The high front that has been slowly rotating across the nation will finally give way to a trough on the west, bringing relief inland from the Pacific coast.

These people are too stupid to be alive.

Why on earth wasn’t his class ring on her finger in the first place? There is a plausible answer to that question; it involves the two of them being frisky (so much for the innocent early days of Rock and Roll).

– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Beatrix Potter, Marcel Duchamp, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

– STATE OF THE WEEK –
Indiana.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
Where would you like to see the 2016 Summer Olympics hosted? (If you’re from Chicago and you list Chicago, list at least one alternative… not to hate on Chicago or anything, it’s just I know how half of you are likely to go here.)

I want to exploit you.

Not really, but I’ve been spending the last eighty minutes revising (for the nine millionth time) the first page of my novel/thesis project Adrift in the Mainstream, and it’s one of those situations where I’ve dissected and reassembled the damn thing so many times I feel completely unable to track it.

This project is an informal discussion of modernism and postmodernism, ultimately to be applied to the larger Gothic Funk debate. A more detailed description of the project is available here. PLEASE ADD YOUR COMMENTS AND JOIN THE DEBATE:

Paragraph 5, Sentence 6:

In this context, modernist idealism seemed a tepid evasion of the work, and the pleasure, of engaging that alientating bourgeois culture.

– JULY – is Blueberries month.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Alexandre Dumas fils, Gary Gygax, Juliana Hatfield, and Emily (who probably doesn’t read this blog).

– LINK OF THE WEEK –
Bud to Blossom: Last week, Sumara stumbled into our conversation on Dead Man’s Chest.

– TIGERS – In Las Vegas betting circles, the Tigers have been calculated as the team second most likely to win the World Series. They’re just behind the Mets, which means they’re effectively expected to lead the American Series. Of course, Nevada doesn’t have a team to root for, so that comes in to play (doubtless).

Lest I look back on this thing in a year and think I wasn’t paying attention to what Jeff Danziger calls “the beginning of World War III.”

Gemma has some worthwhile thoughts on the subject.

Like so many issues (see Dead Man’s Chest below), the ability to take a truly informed stance on an issue is outstripped by the number of issues that compete for a truly informed stance.