Tag: Helen Castor

During the Renaissance, cabinet of curiosities came into fashion as a collection of objects that would often defy classification. As a precursor to the modern museum, the cabinet referred to room(s), not actual furniture, of things that piqued the owners interest and would be collected and displayed in an aesthetically pleasing manner. Collectioun of Cunnynge Curioustes is my 21st century interpretation of that idea.
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Writing

The Lisa Chronicles

1998 March 23  Music: Soothes the savage beast September 21 hi! my name is suzie (homemaker) September 27 talk about the passion September 28 shiny happy people September 29, 1998 i’m da man October 1 slack October 2 big sister is watching you October 3 fixed memories October 5 smart, sexy, fabulous October 6 fun with quick cams October 7 management reserves the right to change without notice October 14 logitech mouseware October 15 unable to locate the installation log file October 20 this one goes out to the one i love October 24 i’ve got the knack! October 27 black metallic October 29 definitions 1999 January 3 beautiful dreamer January 12 Five months from today… January 17 amazon bitch queen

January 18 pussy galore January 20 skool January 23 still breathing January 24 Make yourself at home! Clean my kitchen. January 26 A hard-on doesn’t count as personal growth. January 30 Don’t bother me. I’m living happily ever after. January 31 Do I look like a fucking people person? February 7 tax time February 8 wired, se7en, and me February 14 strange currencies February 21 sick February 26 keep clear March 1 happiness March 6 tainted love March 10 balls March 12 voices trapped in yearning March 17 save me the waltz March 18 new style March 30 fsck April 15 astrix love May 2 sex/purity/soul May 6 eyes like coins May 10 redux May 28 pain (makes me beautiful)

Ephemera – Prose Companion to The Lisa Chronicles

• the death of wm. s. burroughs

Reading

She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth by Helen Castor
(Amazon | WorldCat | GoodReads | LibraryThing)
Status: Currently Reading
First heard about on the BBC History podcast when they interviewed the author, Helen Castor, and I had been looking forward to reading this for ages. Like many titles that specialize on European history, this came out in the US nearly a year after first published in the UK. It is now available in paperback and ebook in addition to the hardcover in the States. It also has an accompanying one-off TV series that is also available in the US on DVD which I’ve seen and is very good.
While I adore the topic Castor covers, I had a problem with her presentation of the TV series in which it is a little too dry, a little too academic-y, and a little too author centric. Although very well versed at the topic in hand, she’s very staid when she presents. I had hoped the book wasn’t going to be in the same vain and unfortunately it is.
This is not to say She-Wolves is not an entertaining read because overall it is, but it is to say I am 25% in and with a subject area that has more drama, violence, romance, and intrigue that could rival any fictionalized TV show, and I’m puzzled at how Castor can almost make it almost a snooze fest. I’ll give a more indepth report later once I’ve finished the book.

Watching

Weekly watching: Reign, Dracula, Project Runway All-Stars, Breathless, Atlantis, Masters of Sex, Elementary, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Sleepy Hollow, Survivor,  Boardwalk Empire, Doc Martin, QI, Peaky Blinders,  Sons of Anarchy,  The Vampire Diaries
What have you read/watched/listened to this week?
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