Spent afternoon reading through fasicle rather than doing my work.

I keep not finishing books. And then I've got this somewhat rule that I shouldn't write about something until I'm done with it. I'm thinking I might do a month where I finish books. Usually the not finishing has more to do with something like taking it on a trip and then only getting part way through it and then coming home and getting over taken with work.

But on recent trip to Norway, instead of watching that movie about Sandra Bullock as a CIA or FBI agent who enters beauty contests, finished Mahmoud Darwish's Memory of Forgetfulness. I think this book got carried with me on at least two previous trips. Interesting and clear read. The content has a lot of references to stuff I'm not that smart in and despite the detailed footnotes from the translator I sometimes felt lost. Good for insight into living in a place while bombing goes on.

Marcella Durand's The Anatomy of Oil. Beautifully done.

Also read most of Sianne Ngai's Ugly Feelings. Got half of a final chapter left to go on this one.

Lee Tonouchi, Da Kine Dictionary.

i like the collectivist gesture (the dictionary is a collection of words submitted by various people and then collected by Tonouch).

some stupid part of me wants a more serious version of it. with etymology. it bothers me the way some words get marked as hawaiian or whatever but english words don't get marked as english. i'd like to see more japanese/chinese/korean which must be there more than it shows up in the word lists. i think i wish he had worked with a linguist and supplemented the submissions with his or someone else's work. i wish there was some attention to what is continental slang entering into pidgin and what originates as pidgin. wish he had done some of the OED sort of work where you get usages from written texts. etc. but that would have taken so much longer.

but when it comes down to it, i'm really fond of lee. and i like it that he does these crazy projects where others fear to go.

I'm so fucking behind. Too much travelling. Too much editing.

Today read Patrick Durgin's "Gilles Deleuze among the New Americans: Toward a Practical Plurality of Indeterminacies or an Imitation Poetics."

Also Steve Evans's "Field Notes" in the Poker 6. Moving on to Moxley article in a few minutes. Stephanie was talking about it earlier today.

Read with devotion while on way to Boulder and back Albert Memmi's The Colonizer and the Colonized. I had never read it before. Having overly intense moments of identification to positions one is twisted into in colonial situations from living in Hawai'i. Beautifully clear prose. No quotations in entire book. I adore it.