"nonfiction: Prose that is factual, except for newspapers.

creative nonfiction: Prose that is true, except in the case of memoir.

memoir: From the Latin memoria, meaning “memory,” a popular form in which the writer remembers entire passages of dialogue from the past, with the ultimate goal of blaming the writer’s parents for his current psychological challenges.

novel: A quaint, longer form that fell out of fashion with the advent of the memoir."

more here: http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/10/0082197
By Chris Offutt, from “Excerpt from The Offutt Guide to Literary Terms”

Claire

Claire, originally uploaded by Rocketships, Jellyfish.

Satellite Heights

Satellite Heights, originally uploaded by Rocketships, Jellyfish.

Zach

Zach, originally uploaded by Rocketships, Jellyfish.

Lovelies

, originally uploaded by Rocketships, Jellyfish.

Ben

Ben, originally uploaded by Rocketships, Jellyfish.

yes, flickr posts already. someone is avoiding real work.

FIVE

count 'em, five. new photo albums up on my picasa. all pictures taken with my baby (D80).
picture include: apartment antics, steph's birthday bbq, impromptu roomie portraits, and recording studio and rooftop pictures taken today of claire's friend ben's band, Satellite Heights, in Brooklyn.

check them out! nicer flickr edits to come soon.

From Hanging

From Hanging

From Hanging

From Satellite Heights- On the Roof

From Satellite Heights- On the Roof

language is everywhere!

colloquium topic! current events! more!
(some new yorker pieces about the role of words/language in politics )

lately, talisa has been:

Dutifully keeping up with her news feeds (perhaps better than with her friendships? she can't even seem to keep up with the ones in the same city as her. Maybe some pruning needs to be done--with the feed, not the friends--how does she have over 200 new items on her Google Reader every morning? ), feeling informed and overwhelmed, trying to seek refuge in more than just Sarah Palin jokes (who would have thought Les Parapluies de Cherbourg could be laugh-out-loud funny? Certainly not Catherine Deneuve. But it absolutely is. Just make sure you watch it with Duke.), wondering how her brain keeps functioning given colloquium/rationale preparations and Ulysses, and mostly, living in that strange college universe in which the phrase "All I do is ______." can be filled in with any of these words: sleep, stay in, go out, have fun, go to work, go to school, homework, hang out with my roommates, miss my roommates, bum around, drink, smoke, procrastinate, etc. and still be completely true.

also, capturing herself with 1.3 hp pavilion megapixels:

side note: south africa, for any one who's curious.