school work

i'm writing a paper on Marjane Satrapi (here's an interview with her on npr) and her graphic novels persepolis.  i've been all about learning about iran and her books are beautiful and give us westerners a peek into the lives of an iranian family and we can realized all of our assumptions about iran are not as black and white as her illustrations.  (sound a little like my thesis)

i love love love this american life!  listen to the pod cast silly. . . 

this weeks episode poultry jam was awesome. . .
loved act 2

Kathie Russo’s husband was Spalding Gray, who was best known for delivering monologues onstage—like "Monster in a Box," and "Swimming to Cambodia." On January 10, 2004, he went missing. Witnesses said they saw him on the Staten Island Ferry that night. Two months later, his body was pulled out of the East River. Kathie tells the story of the night he disappeared, and about how, in the weeks following, she and each of their three children were visited by a bird, who seemed to be delivering a message to them. (10 minutes)

i almost always cry. . .