Tom & Alissa

I have little to report. I’ve been busily working, going to class, reading, brainstorming, and all that. I just don’t have much else to say. Tom has been busy working long days. We come home at night and talk about all the things we’ve heard, read, and seen that day in politics, culture, the arts, and the economy. The world is swirling about madly and we are watching, thinking, and processing together.

So in the meantime, here’s a bunch of links I’ve been piling up:
• I ordered a few tealights from Dirt on Saturday, because they are $1 apiece and I like variety, and I like to burn soy candles since they don’t release the same kind of harmful things into the air as regular candles. I ordered A Fresh Start, All-Nighter, Nitty Gritty (the impetus for the order), and Apple a Day (made mostly of actual apples!).

• From More Intelligent Life: Meeting Marilynne Robinson. Not your typical author profile.

• Full-length videos from the Slow Food Nation conference, including Wendell Berry, Alice Waters, Carlo Petrini, and Michael Pollan.

• Sorted Books art.

• Saturday is apparently the Second Annual Gowanus Harvest Festival, which looks not only pretty cool but also helps to dispel the myth that city people don’t care about this stuff (and yes, I realize I pointed toward a Wendell Berry video two points earlier).

• Why literary readings are so excruciatingly bad, useful as I’m trying to plan programming for IAM.

• Looks like movie people will have work next year, hurrah!

• Lastly, the University as arts patron.