What looks to be a solid wooden door separates the vestibule of our new home from the dining room. When we first toured the home, we noticed the doors only to say how richly colored hey were. When I toured … Continue reading
When Michelle and I first moved to Pittsburgh, we spent a long time on Craigslist looking for a place to live. But we quickly found that the majority of Craigslist was run by two or three main companies: Forbes Management, … Continue reading
A) 2006 – 2011 The summer of 2006 was the first best summer of my life. It marked the first time I was ever allowed to write in a book. I was, in fact, encouraged to write in books — the near … Continue reading
The Sherman reading got me thinking about what kind of books I feel okay defacing. Most any book I buy, I deface with my thoughts, unless it’s an art book or something pricey like that. Library books, though, sometimes stop … Continue reading
As soon as I saw this I thought of you guys:
I had a little problem when I began drafting this signment. See, the thing is, I did the readings and suddenly there was marginalia everywhere I looked. And I wanted to write about it all. It doesn’t help that I … Continue reading
“…spamming is the project of leveraging information technology to exploit existing gatherings of attention.” – Finn Brunton, “Introduction: The Shadow History of the Internet.” Today, walking home from Crazy Mocha, I realized that I needed to check my mail, a … Continue reading
Before reading part of Joe Austin’s “Taking the Train” this week, I had never thought to consider graffiti as a highly developed modality for writing or communication. This seems strange, given that it surrounded me, growing up, on the highways … Continue reading
As perhaps only the women in this class may be aware, the women’s bathroom on the third floor of the Cathedral of Learning has a stall filled with Harry Potter graffiti, and/or (I’ll argue later) marginalia — so, mixed genre … Continue reading
…their traces struck me not as desecration but as potential sources of evidence. —William Sherman (Books & Readers in Early Modern England 123) 1 For this first story, I have nothing to show you. This is a memory, brought round … Continue reading