Dude!

[jlh]

roland barthes is love
brought to you by the isLove Generator

It's so random and yet so completely true! I love Barthes; reading him changed the entire way I approach not just analysis but study in general; it was the biggest "aha" moment of my academic life! Not sure about that grammar, though.

Up early to get in the car and go to Baltimore. House rather warm. Glad to have been woken from a really disturbing dream.

ETA: I am thankful for Roland Barthes for taking popular culture seriously and helping me to see how to take it seriously, and giving me the confidence to assert that other people should take it seriously, too, even at Harvard when I was just a little freshman from a lower middle class small town talking to upper middle class, well-educated "peers".

Comments

[weatherby.livejournal.com]

Well, they got it from your interests.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

It is still random. I don't think most people have noticed it in my interests. Why are you interested in high school football games? Do you have a thing for the coaches? Or is it the smell of the Gatorade?

[weatherby.livejournal.com]

No, I was trying to make my interests all autumn-related last month, and high school football games always remind me of autumn. Then I had this conversation with my friend Saku about how high school football games are romantic, and so I left it as an interest, and voila! So mine is actually quite appropriate.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

High school football games are romantic, and very fall. The two rival schools in Portland have their game on Thanksgiving morning every year. The Game (Harvard-Yale) is the Saturday before Thanksgiving. I don't really have strong associations with football, though, because my high school didn't have a football team and my college wasn't really a football school. Both were more about hockey, but that's a winter sport really.