Category: surprisingly good uses of my time

• The New Year

  First, this post owes a big debt of gratitude to Kelli Russell Agodon. A few months ago, Kelli tweeted about “the old days” when poets blogged widely and regularly. I, too, missed that spirit of community, and in the tweets that followed from others, a movement took back its shape, and many, many poets committed…

  Charles

  January 3, 2018

  blogging, books, poetry, poets, stuff i love, surprisingly good uses of my time, the past, time management, writing practices

• Another reason I love Mary Gaitskill

  She was twenty-five. I was thirty-three. She was already editor in chief of a venerable avant-garde press, a veritable circus of caged monsters and their stylish keepers. She spoke with a combination of real confidence and its flimsy counterfeit. Monsterless, I barely knew how to speak at all, and what I could say was timid…

  Charles

  June 2, 2009

  authors, favorites, fiction, surprisingly good uses of my time

• How to Please Me in Just a Few Easy Steps

  The start of a new TV season is always a time of reflection for me as I contemplate what my time-wasting needs are and which shows will likely last long enough to earn my unfettered devotion. I consider several factors when choosing my shows, because I hope we’ll be together for a long time. It’s…

  Charles

  September 18, 2008

  pleasing me, surprisingly good uses of my time, television

• I Know What You Did Last Weekend

  Last night I paid money to see a Lindsay Lohan movie and I didn’t even regret it. I Know Who Killed Me seems to want to be your typical revived-sniff film along the lines of the recent Captivity: young girl in trouble, is tortured by an unseen man for his enjoyment, etc. But it takes…

  Charles

  August 14, 2007

  film theory, Lindsay Lohan alerts, movies, reviews, surprisingly good uses of my time