June 5, 2009

Miles Curtiss for University Area Commissioner

Posted by : elenamary

My very good friend, Miles Curtiss is running for University Area Commissioner.  Those living between High street to the train tracks, and from 5thAve to 16thAve, can vote for Miles Curtiss.  All you have to do is show up, this Saturday, with either your Buck-ID, or other photo ID, or mail at one of the [...]


August 24, 2008

Taquerias in Columbus Ohio

Posted by : elenamary

I read an article and was subtly offended by it but I didn’t have a way to articulate why. I’ve been thinking about the article since I read it on Thursday. Then today while driving to pick-up a friend of mine who hangs out with a lot of hipsters, it hit me. [...]


August 17, 2008

Beauty of education

Posted by : elenamary
Filed under : art, personal

I sat with a friend who did his bachelors in electrical engineering and with another friend who is an English professor. Engineering friend was trying to convince English prof friend that solving a challenging math problem can sometimes be as beautiful and fulfilling as reading a wonderful novel. He was right, and she [...]


August 10, 2008

A Dream Lies Dead

Posted by : elenamary
Filed under : art, personal

I received The Portable Dorthy Parker, for my birthday yesterday.
I share with you a poem from the book:
A DREAM LIES DEAD
A dream lies dead here. May you softly go
Before this place, and turn away your eyes,
Nor seek to know the look of that which dies
Importuning Life for life. Walk not in woe,
But, [...]


March 1, 2008

Local Art Show, C-Note

Posted by : elenamary
Filed under : Ohio, art, personal

Zero (El-Amin Asadi) has created new art work, as he describes it, “Pencil powered mayhem”. It is to me some of his best work. My favorite piece of his is not available for viewing online but, I believe, will be up at the C-Note Art Show.
His pieces are raw and sometimes, painful [...]


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