Kyle Beachy's Blog, page 11
February 17, 2009
Barneys, Nobility
At 5:30 tomorrow evening I will stand somewhere inside the Barnes and Noble at the corner of State and Jackson in downtown Chicago, and I will read. The Chicago Reader already knows as much. Will…there…be…a Starbucks there? I presume yes there will. Also, I have offered my current students a tiny little bit of extra credit if they show up. So if you see them, be sure to ask how DeLillo’s uses of “aura” in WN differ from Benjamin’s, and have them provide four examples NOT including the barn scene
A Presidents(’?) Day Miracle
Today during my morning dog walk the beautiful dog and I were approached by a thuggish looking sphere of a dog, a little muscle factory of pit bull, and my first instinct was, “No way you! Back! Keep your thuggish jaws and cock away from my beautiful pure beautiful dog!” But then I saw that the thug bull was actually playful and nice and without collar or testicles. So we made friends and walked on and he walked along with us and was made happy, this one, and his tongue flopped and I began to wo
