It was one of those humid days when the atmopshere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water. Photo: Ryan McGinley, Deep Creek (Hot Springs), 2005 Quote: Jeffrey Eugenides – Middlesex
Author: JuliaThekla
My Body is a Cage
Fritz Zorn meets Arcade Fire meets The Intellectual Chaos. I’ve scribbled and drawn this during a time I felt really bad. The Jüngling had just dumped me (via text message while he was on a faculty party less than 10min away from me), I was heartbroken, I ate nothing but dark chocolate (Schwarze Herrenschokolade) and…
Genetics, Gender, and the Greeks. On Jeffrey Eugenide’s Middlesex.
Whereas I, even now, persist in believing that these black marks on white paper bear the greatest significance, that if I keep writing I might be able to catch the rainbow of consciousness in a jar. Middlesex is Jeffrey Eugenide’s second novel. After the much promising The Virgin Suicides, it was not surprising that his…
Facing your fears: The Snail-Watcher
Confession: I suffer from slugophobia. Not sure that word exists (yet), but I use it anyway to describe my very unnatural abhorrence of those slimy little bastards. Shell or no shell, slug or snail – doesn’t matter. I see one, I freeze, I panic. Molluscophobia is the proper name for it. I was scared of…
Friday Night Thoughts
A Stream of Consciousness that had to get out. Do you know the feeling when you’re lonely, when you’re desperatly longing for someone to text you, check up on you and ask you a simple “hey, what you up to?” (not the booty call kind of text). And if you do, do you furthermore also…
Ian McEwan: Black Dogs
In 1946, a young couple sets off on their honeymoon. Fired by their ideals and passion for one another, they plan an idyllic holiday, only to encounter an experience of darkness so terrifiying, it alters their lives forever. Quoth the blurb. It’s my fourth Ian McEwan after Atonement, Solar and The Children Act. When I…
Funny, Clever, And Meaningful: Watching Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Ah, Netflix and me. What an intense relationship. Netflix, always checking up on me. “Are You Still Watching You?” when I binged the first season of You must have been the freakiest question I ever read on a screen and almost as meta as Black Mirror’s Bandersnatch episode. “Yes, Netflix, I do. I still watch…
Gateau au Chocolat
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” [Charles M. Schulz] A new, rich recipe with lots and lots of chocolate, chocolate sprinkles, cacao, Lindt Lindor chocolate, cream, coffee and rum. DISCLAIMER> If you don’t wanna read the intro, you may scroll down to CHAPTER I I was sitting…
I’ve met a Gin on my travels and it was love at first try.
It’s name is White Gin. Macaronesian White Gin. And we’re a match made in heaven. But before we get to drink, it’s time for some geographical ground work: Macaronesia is a collection of four archipelagos in the North Atlantic Ocean. Vulcanic in origin, they are unique in their climate and vegetation. We gonna zoom in…
Las Salinas – Agaete’s Natural Pool Paradise
The Canary Islands – all-year holiday destination for all desires from party to nature. For me, it was my first mid/season aka winter holiday since working at the theatre (hooray!). I was in desperate need of Vitamin D, looked up not-too-far-away places and decided on Agaete, Gran Canaria, as my designated residency. Agaete is located…