Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
High school hierarchies and the attendant etiquette dilemmas are the closest I have ever come to the world of Anna Karenina.
Workers are tearing down a red brick building a block away. Salon's employees are oohing and aahing by the window. Reminds me of the powerful, awesome last pages of 21 Dog Years by Mike Daisey.
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the spam.
I had a contented Christmas with the Whitney/Richardson clan down in Bakersfield, CA. We exchanged pleasant gifts and put up with Gretel, a German Shepherd dog who is enthusiastic. I read Philip Pullman's The Broken …
Reading Douglas Coupland's All Families Are Psychotic. It so engrossed me this morning that I missed my Muni stop. Once I watched Tartuffe at San Joaquin Delta College and the program praised Molière's economy of …
Wesley Clark talks about his spiritual beliefs. He's regularly attended a few different churches in his life. Right now he considers himself a Catholic, but doesn't attend a Catholic church. ...One night I walked out …
Oresteia and Pratchett's Small Gods are alike in that they both propose a more rational, constitution-based relationship among gods and humans. Sort of. I want to see both plays in the Continental Divide sequence/cycle/set/wave/particle in …
A year late, I got around to typing up my hands-wrung-over introduction to a Garrison Keillor event. Good evening to you, ladies, gentlemen. We welcome you to this evening's event. Thank you for coming, since …
Pretty tired. When I was in eleventh grade, I asked my wonderful English teacher, Sam Hatch, to name his favorite novel. He considered and answered: Dostoyevsky's The Idiot. A few years ago I tried to …
Andrew Leonard saw me reading Beyond Fear while eating lunch and proclaimed that I am such a geek.