Monthly Archives: August 2011

textual analysis…what’s not to love?

Posted on August 31, 2011 by rustichello

Blood and Sand has so far (we have seen season one and a short prequel series called Gods of the Arena, season two is expected shortly) depicted Spartacus’ journey to the point he leaves Capua at the head of his … Continue reading →

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cool as kim deal

Posted on August 14, 2011 by rustichello

Ambition is a funny thing. When you’re young ambition is a marker of difference, individuating us from each other. The combination of self belief and forward trajectory is how difference is marked because there isn’t anything else: no achievements worth … Continue reading →

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put me back on my bike?

Posted on August 12, 2011 by rustichello

Yesterday I was asked my opinion of a poem. That doesn’t happen very often, indeed I don’t think about poetry very often. But there I was trying to figure out what these sixteen or so lines might be about or … Continue reading →

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the loss of emotional iridescence

Posted on August 2, 2011 by rustichello

A long time ago I read a beautiful essay by Teshome Gabriel about returning to Ethiopia to visit his mother. In that essay he describes being given a series of gifts by his mother: a cup, a photograph and a … Continue reading →

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