Friday Dec 05, 2003

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if any of you are into ethnographies, i'm immersed in Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing's In the Realm of the Diamond Queen right now, and i really, really like it. i like the way she intertwines narrative into her work; an anthropologist cannot help but be subjective, so why fake it? it's yummy, post-structuralist, post-colonial, post-modern fun.

i just went to the coffee shop and they are out of Genesis Strawberry Honey Lemonade. God is angry with me.

i got to see Mei today for the first time in a while. she is the quintessential smart and funny hot girl. i hope she comes to my birthday party and watches Cubistic and i face off in a butter-eating competition.

i'm working on a poem again for the first time in weeks, but i can't get the rhythm of opium-addled Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" far enough out of my head to establish my own meter.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree :
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
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mei:
you better be telling me when your birthday party is SOON, so i can come to it! because i will be there, oh yes, i will...

*MWAHAHAHA*

*ahem*

the butter eating contest reminds me of an evening involving nearly-nude wrestling and pam (the non-stick cooking spray). i don't remember who all was involved (i was not) but that is one of the parties i'm sad to say i missed.
sparagmos:
My partner for my last ethnography in school Agnus decided she wanted to do an ethnography on the adult entertainment industry in Ottawa. Not quite the same as looking at traditional cultures which is what I often associate with ethnography but still was interesting.

Required me to hang with Agnus at strip clubs and the like for months on end, totally changed my perspective on the whole phenom.

I wish I knew about more ethnographies on modern subcultures would be curious to read some others.

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