Glynnis Ritchie

Photos: Minoru Kaburagi for IT POST MAGAZINE Stylist: Tom Van...

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:24:00 -0500

Photos: Minoru Kaburagi for IT POST MAGAZINE
Stylist: Tom Van Dorpe

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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:05:37 -0500

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Mad Men photos by Annie Leibovitz from Vanity Fair.

Ever the sentimentalist

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:41:55 -0500

cbk:

Me: I’m just saying, very few people think about their relationships in terms of the potentially devastating sacrifices they’re making in order to be with that person.
My roommate: You should write Hallmark cards.

Dear AT&T,

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:48:29 -0500

It would be lovely to

call you and reach someone in less than twenty-five minutes,
call you without your automated answering services hanging up on me,
or be able to speak to the first service representative who answers instead of being transferred once or twice thereafter only to be placed on hold again.

And, you know. If one day I could call you *once* about a problem in order to have it addressed, instead of three, four, five, or six times, I would be very impressed, especially if in addressing the initial problem, your service representatives did not create two or three new ones in error.

Sincerely, exhaustedly, exasperatedly, and without much hope,

Glynnis

“Periodically Triple” - Yo La Tengo

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:20:39 -0500

“Periodically Triple” - Yo La Tengo

It still has the names on all the boxes! Handwritten, too. On...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:26:05 -0500

It still has the names on all the boxes! Handwritten, too. On the side it says it’s from Carlisle, PA, 1959.

Today I went to an estate sale and brought home a piece of post...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:21:53 -0500

Today I went to an estate sale and brought home a piece of post office. Now I finally have some place besides old suitcases to store my letters and stationery, once I get it clean. Also, I finally own a piece of post office. It’s not quite as extensively awesome as say, the full-sized, gold-framed-window, 100+ box wooden post office facade that’s for sale at the antique market in Wetumpka, Alabama, but, you know…baby steps.

The entire Beatles back catalog is now set to release in...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:18:21 -0500

The entire Beatles back catalog is now set to release in digital format Dec. 7th on a 16gb flash drive shaped like an apple. The price: $279.99. Both FLAC and 320kb MP3 formats will be included.

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cbk: sblack: Lauryn Hill - Doo Wop (That Thing) I think Lauryn...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:03:20 -0500

cbk:

sblack:

Lauryn Hill - Doo Wop (That Thing)

I think Lauryn Hill is one of the coolest people to ever walk the face of the Earth. This video! This video!

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill should be canonized as one of the classic feminist texts.

Word.

Last night's dinner party

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:51:00 -0500

Fall salad with roasted beets, cinnamon cranberry chèvre, pears, toasted walnuts, and vinaigrette

Butternut squash risotto

Fesenjan

Key lime pie with twice the lime juice and sour cream topping

Thanks to everyone for coming to eat!

I’m about to trot off to the local jazz dive for some...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:02:50 -0500

I’m about to trot off to the local jazz dive for some music after Tuscaloosa’s “First Thursday” — our once-a-month art night here in town. But before I do, I want to hold myself accountable. There are so many exciting things to talk about! Here are a few I want to get to:

This guy. Whose signed books I’m holding. He gave a really wonderful talk tonight before a show of his work on campus. Any NYers out there that are interested in seeing it, he’s got a show coming up near you.
Kjeld Ejstrup, a Danish man who recently was part of an art show without realizing it.
The South and what I think about it these days.

Happy Guy Fawkes Day, y’all. Let’s burn stuff!

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:02:29 -0500

Happy Guy Fawkes Day, y’all. Let’s burn stuff!

GPOYW. Even with the housing situation beginning to settle,...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:14:00 -0500

GPOYW.

Even with the housing situation beginning to settle, things are busier than ever! I owe you major updates, but don’t have many tangible things to show for it yet. I’m involved in lots of new projects that are beginning to come together all at once, which means that most of my time outside of class that’s not devoted to school work is still spent working. Here’s the run-down:

The awesome news is that I’ll be graduating in May! With a double major, at that: Media, Communication, and Culture (through the interdisciplinary program here), and French. I’ve already begun work on my senior project, which investigates the American South as a culture, the idea of geography informing identity, and how all of that has manifested itself through my family history. We’ve been in Alabama (mostly in the same city) since right after the Civil War. Don’t know how just yet, but there’s some kind of book/album that will come out of it.
Speaking of graduation and next semester, here’s the class line-up so far: French phonetics and linguistics, French literature (something 17th c.?), cultural anthropology + lab, Photo 418, and a one hour for-credit internship with Slash Pine Press. Slash Pine will publish a chapbook (handmade) in the spring, as well as organize a poetry festival.
Post-graduation plans? I’m trying to get back to France for the summer — for the Cannes Film Festival as an intern, but perhaps back to Paris thereafter. Maybe to get certified to teach French, maybe just for a quick visit and a little tooling around town to see friends. All still very much in the works, nothing solid yet. Hello couch-surfing and 99-centimes-baguettes!
Then to New York? Question mark? If I can find full-time work I will jump on it, but based on what other grads have been experiencing, full-time work means waiting tables, which doesn’t much lead anywhere but waiting in the other sense. So I may apply for more/other internships to get more experience and shove my foot through some doors. I considered grad school, but waiting on all my transfer credit to come through from abroad meant I lost a lot of time. Then, you know…there’s that other bit about not knowing what I want to commit myself to just yet. The smorgasbord goes something like: MLIS, MFA in book arts, art/rare books conservation, museum studies, interdisciplinary art, linguistics. Oh, the future. What a mystery you are.
I’ve got a new gig redesigning a site and publishing exhibition catalogs/photography anthologies for a project here in town (more on that later). I’m taking on a book project of my own, as well; I’m assembling a portfolio of the photography I generated during the year I lived abroad, and have a small budget from one of the colleges here at UA. I’ll be printing with Blurb.com, a self-publishing service, and I’m anxious to see the results and print quality. Do any of you have experience with Blurb’s photo books?

"I once tried to come up with a definition of art. Always a risky enterprise. But the best I could..."

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:14:06 -0500

“I once tried to come up with a definition of art. Always a risky enterprise. But the best I could come up with was: create an arbitrary set of rules, and then follow them slavishly. You set up an idea of what you should and you should not do, and then you strictly adhere to it. You try to develop a world view or an aesthetic, however you want to describe it. Maybe it’s even an idea of rectitude.”

- Errol Morris, speaking about Walker Evans’ work.

The Case of the Inappropriate Alarm Clock (Part 5) - Errol Morris Blog - NYTimes.com

David Sedaris on Letterman (via livedangerously)

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:09:39 -0500

David Sedaris on Letterman (via livedangerously)

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Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:08:09 -0500

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Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:55:04 -0500

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Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:45:45 -0500

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“Tangerine” - Led Zeppelin

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:31:03 -0500

“Tangerine” - Led Zeppelin

No way! I’ve always wanted to be this Magritte painting...

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:10:58 -0500

No way! I’ve always wanted to be this Magritte painting for Halloween, but have never gotten around to it. Looks like my friend Philip that I met last year in Paris beat me to it.