Out of Place in Suburbia

I’m pretty boring, really. White, female, middle-aged (eek!), middle-class, married with children. I shouldn’t have any trouble finding a place where I fit in within our social structure — in fact, I’m fortunate to occupy a privileged place there.

Ugh! I remember the time i was learning division.

We had a data table in with the top row and the left most collum was filled with 1 to 10. We had to divide the numbers on the top with numbers on the left, and we had to cross off the squares in the division with were imposible. I honestly thought that the teacher was a moron…

An Idea Whose Time Has Come

The following passage, from the great Victor Hugo’s Ninety-Three, is heart-stopping. A library containing three sweetly sleeping children is slowly being enveloped in fire, while from across a ravine, their desperate mother looks on, frantic — and helpless. I have watched my…

James Bond and Voyeurism

In From Russia With Love

“Ideology is then abstract and false thought, in a sense directly related to the original conservative use but with the alternative knowledge of real material conditions and relationships.” (Raymond Williams, Keywords A Vocabulary of…