This Week in the Mercury
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Books Readings Tonight
Posted by Alison Hallett on Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 2:48 PM
The most historically significant hangover of my life is starting to lift. Last night was amazing. And now, back to your regularly scheduled...
Tonight at Powell's, Ed McClanahan reads from his memoirish O the Clear Moment, a collection of short pieces in which the Calvin Trillin-esque writer reflects on his idyllic small-town childhood, the ways his life has been shaped by the women he's loved, and that one time he got crabs from a Mexican girl. I liked it quite a bit, read my review here.
1005 W Burnside, 7:30 pm
Oregon Literary Review's monthly First Wednesday reading series tonight hosts poet Daniel Shach-Mills, artists Johnny Wow, and Oregon Book Award-winning author (for The Jump Off Creek) Molly Gloss, who's up again this year for her novel The Hearts of Horses.
Blackbird Wine Shop, 3519 NE 44th, 7 pm
And in the Tron, Paula Begoun is reading from Don't Go To the Cosmetics Counter Without Me, her consumer guide to cosmetics. And should you doubt for even a moment that picking the right moisturizer is Very Serious Business, allow me to note that the book is in its seventh reprinting and clocks in at 1362 pages. What was the last 1362 page book YOU read?
Powell's at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills, 7 pm
More books listings here.
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(my belated reaction to last night)
I'm really happy Barack won and can hardly believe that he did so in such a landslide fashion. It shows how demoralized and cynical I'd become over the last 8 dreary years.
I support universal healthcare. I do not want Roe v. Wade overturned as I see abortion as a woman's issue that the government should not be involved with. I'm also hoping Obama will begin to shape America's position in the world in a new direction - away from imperialism and all the bad karma we've been putting out into the world for so long now (Example: when Pakistan and India nearly went to war several years ago, the U.S. weapons industry sold fighter craft, munitions etc. to BOTH SIDES - this tells the world that all that matters to us is profit.) In order to accomplish this, we need to let GO of our need to be the world's only superpower and to dominate everyone else. You may think that's crazy, but I'm not listening to your cynical "nothing's going to change, and nothing needs to change" viewpoint any more. Because we're going to lose the position of world dominance whether we want to or not. It's already happening. History has proven time and time again that empires don't last.
EMPIRES NEVER LAST!
I'm both excited at the prospect of Obama's presidency and fearful of the way the deck is stacked against him - so much negative karma which he didn't put into the world but will have to take responsibility for and deal with. But he exudes confidence, and that makes me confident for him. Here's hoping that better times are in store, and the age of cynicism and regression that basically set in at the end of the 60s and has plagued us ever since may finally be on its last sickly legs.
~TLT~
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