virtually yours | love and friendship in the computer age

How to write about this without being supremely bored or boring is the challenge, because although I could fill volumes on the topic of human interaction in general as have for many writers, particularly on the subjects of love and friendship, it seems that it’s all been said before and that there is nothing unique left here. Yet the newest form of human engagement always struck me as preposterous and yet intriguing and until recently, I did not have any first hand experience with the internet relationp, that is, the idea of meeting people online and forming so called “real” relationships with them.
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/04/02/113545.php

Penn's Right

Where have I been living? Obviously nowhere on this earth because I wake to find that Sean Penn is one of the best actors I’ve seen in recent years and I mean this sincerely. Oh disagree if you want, but I’m serious and likely you all know this and I’m again the odd man, or odd woman, out. This fact struck me after seeing his performance in both Mystic River and in 21 Grams. (link to read more...)
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/04/10/141147.php

the edge of reason | has Bridget Jones lost the meaning?

I always had a fondness for the first Bridget Jones film, Diary of Bridget Jonesliked the book by Helen Fielding and thought the film adaptation excellent and as true to the book as anyone could want. Bridget, in many ways, was every woman. She was perfect in her imperfections, slightly overweight, slightly squinty eyed, slightly neurotic, a bit man obsessed, yet expecting true love and yet at the same time, not immune to a good shag on the side herself, but at the end of the day, we all knew that Bridget loved Mark Darcy – select link to read more...l
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/04/27/182710.php

Blogcritics.org: pleased to meet me | down the rabbit hole and straight to hell

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the use of medication and whether or not I really need it for these darned seizures of mine, and this annoying epilepsy, for I have to tell you, it seems to me that I am a heck of a lot more productive when I am off of this medicine and that I write more coherently, more intelligently, and just plain more, and while I am well aware that quantity should never be sacrificed for quality....more>>>
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sadi ranson-polizzotti - tant mieux articles - the chrysalis factor | lolita & now voyager

Why is it that I turn to Now Voyager again and again and certain books like Lolita. I suppose we all have our favorite reads and our favorite films, and though Nabokov is certainly my favorite author, Now Voyager though , it may be a great, old Hollywood production, is also one of the hokiest films I have ever seen. Still, the film holds and as I watched recently I couldn’t help but see the surprising similarties between the two stories – between the nymphet and the spinster aunt, both stuck in their cocoons and both subjects of the tyranny of others. ...more>>>
sadi ranson-polizzotti - tant mieux articles - the chrysalis factor | lolita & now voyager

sadi ranson-polizzotti - tant mieux articles - in the looking glass | the real you

I recently discovered a thing that is perhaps known to the rest of mankind but was previously unknown to me, which is that we are never just one self, but more, we are an amalgam of selves. Oh, yes, I mean of course I knew we all had different “sides” as I’ll call them – our social side, our good side, our sweet side...more>>>
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Blogcritics.org: Woolf's Long Hours: Virginia Woolf's Temporal Lobe - sadi ranson-polizzotti

Say what you will, but it cannot have been easy to be Virginia Woolf, and having learned that she “suffered of fits” as the language goes, a thing I know a little something about, I find myself empathizing all the more.
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booksquare - sadi ranson-polizzotti takes a long, well-considered look at adultery in literature...

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sadi ranson-polizzotti - tant mieux articles - ted hughes | why birthday letters

I always felt sad for Ted Hughes.

Even in death, he cannot find peace. There are still groups of people who hold Hughes, and Hughes alone, accountable for the death of his wife the poet Sylvia Plath. If only life were so simple. More >>>
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auntie sadi's advice for girls

auntie sadi's advice for girls
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sadi ranson-polizzotti - tant mieux articles - why wax me Barbie!

I remember years ago ago to seemed when women had some degree of bodily hair and wore it proudly.
sadi ranson-polizzotti - tant mieux articles - why wax me Barbie!

blue sunday

blue sunday
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the mean reds or the real blues, depending on who you are.

pau azucar

pau azucar
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taking the veil 3

taking the veil 3
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Blogcritics.org: living language | learn french again

Raise your hand if you were forced to take a language course in school – you know, the usual Spanish or French, and if you were in a better school district, Italian, Latin, German and even Chinese as my son just told me was offered.
Blogcritics.org: living language | learn french again

Blogcritics.org: grieving and surviving | on my word

Grief is never easy, no matter what your religious beliefs. The idea that your departed, your quick and your dead may wind up sitting on a cloud one day with fairy wings and a halo all sweetness and light is nice, but it isn’t really the same thing as having them here, with you now in this moment in which you can live life together and hold onto them for dear life and never again take that person for granted, because you know you did, and though you hadn’t meant to, now it’s too late. More>>>
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Blogcritics.org: The Calling | it's your Father on the line

A friend rings today and Lord, it is good to hear his voice. My friend Charlie, who went from being a New York editor extraordinaire and is now a Midwestern priest -- also extraordinaire, for he is good, no great, at what he does. My, how life is odd. Imagine going from publishing literature in New York and hanging out with the likes of me and people like me who talked about work in translation far too often and far too vehemently, who smoked too much, who wore too much black and generally took the whole publishing scene far too seriously. Not say that it isn’t important. It is. Perhaps it is that we took our role and ourselves in it too seriously, for after all, we were editors and as such, we determined what the future reading of tomorrow - who would be big, who would not. However, don't blame me for Brett Easton Ellis, please. More >>>
Blogcritics.org: The Calling | it's your Father on the line