Nar has a show on saturday with the Four Eyes. In San Francisco, natch. I don't know why that sentence warrants a natch, but it just does. The Four Eyes are sort of on a mini tour because they have a show in Davis on sunday. It's not listed on their myspace, but it's at Delta on sunday.
Who has read Middlesex out there? What did you think? I don't want to make fun of anyones personal appearance, and I do like both of his books, but is Eugenides kidding with that author photo? I can't even comment on the Van Dyke (actually, is it a Van Dyke? Is there even a name for that thing besides Mons Pubis) but the turtleneck? Why not add a pipe while you're at it?
I thought it was fascinating. It's like those gender studies that were done in the 60's. Did you ever see the documentary about the male twins? They were circumsized and it was botched on one of them and this sex and gender dr convinced them to raise him as a girl, but the kid never took to it. I think in the end both twins commit suicide as adults. David Reimer, that was his name.
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I just re-read it and I definitely liked it more this time. Last time I focused more on the sensationalistic elements and read it really fast and didn't get a concrete impression. This time I really felt for Cal. I hate some of the magical realism stuff, like the Nation of Islam little subplot.
ReplyDeleteI have phantom pains just thinking about a scene from that book. You know, in my lady* place.
ReplyDeleteI think Eugenides is awesome, he writes strong characters that I end up caring for, but I will agree that Middlesex went a little overboard with the subplots.
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*honest.
A van dyke has to be connected, I believe. I think that's just a run of the mill 'stache with a touch of soul patch and a somewhat daring "I dipped my chin in hair" goatee.
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it's closest in type to the "balbo"
ReplyDeletethe thing with that kind of facial hair is that you get this gut feeling you can't trust the dude around your kids. who wants to have facial hair that makes people feel THAT way?
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