Paul Attinello

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  • Ostern in Stuttgart (I)

    [March 19-23, 2008] Winterschnee (Wednesday) Snow is forecast, although it is Easter weekend (admittedly a very early Easter, tribute to the peculiarly arcane calculations the Church goes through to establish the date – look it up some time, the formula is nothing short of bizarre); and here it is – rich, heavy snow, very wet,…

  • Transitionals

    The unhappy weight of guilt around productivity has let up somewhat: since Mitchell has kindly started giving me my marching orders – literally telling me what chapter to draft next, and send it to him – and Melinda, going a bit outside the normal range of activity for a therapist, has chimed in asking for…

  • Turn of the wheel

    Fortunas turns yet again, but upward this time: finally that promotion – after three applications in a row, and only about a year later than deserved, according to my figuring. (In Britain, where money and business control have taken over academe, that isn’t bad – administrators here love to deny promotions in order to save…

  • Making oneself crazy

    … or should that be: making one’s self crazy?… In the interstices of watching these films, and scanning Joyce’s thesis so I can report on it (the airplane and hotel for her defense in Paris are already organized – which reminds me: I also need to buy a flight to Washington to attend my eldest…

  • Les nuits fauves

    I’ll admit it: Savage Nights (Les nuits fauves), Cyril Collard’s famous 1992 film about being bisexual, HIV+, and careless – by which I mean: really fucking careless: having sex with someone without telling them – is at least as exasperating as it is impressive. Does that make me a fuddy-duddy?… Lots of drama about rebellion…

  • Jarman

    In the midst of watching all these AIDS films, a left turn, sort of: before sitting through Derek Jarman’s Blue (I’ve never actually seen it with the blue screen throughout – which may hardly be necessary – but perhaps it’s a good idea to do it), I thought I would see something that didn’t require…

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