Do Not Enter The Tea Room

Around Christmas 1995 a friend came to visit me in my newly married, presumably happy, life in Michigan. We went to a museum where we saw an exhibit of a Japanese tea room. Outside the display was an attempt to describe this exhibit. It started with something like: “Within the tea room, one feels loneliness which penetrates into the marrow of one’s bones...” and ended with the caution “Please do not enter the tea room”. I laughed out loud. If you don’t get it, you probably should leave.

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

gavel fixation

Is it me or does it seems like there is a disproportionately large number of pictures of new US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi holding that damned gavel? Who's got the gavel fixation? Her or the press?

3 comments:

WinterWheat said...: Hmmm... I haven't noticed that. Will have to look. One of my grad students, after reading research showing that female athletes are always shown with husbands and babies and wedding rings and whatnot to prove their heterosexuality (and submissiveness to a man), remarked that the press seems to be doing the same thing to Nancy Pelosi. Sure enough, in a recent issue of Time-I-think-it-was, every damned picture of her showed her with (a) husband, (b) daughter, and/or (c) baby grandchild. *rolls eyes*; January 10, 2007 8:58 PM
Meow Meow said...: I really don't care for Nancy. Thank you for picking up on the whole "woman in charge" aspect. Her title is cool, but move on already!; January 10, 2007 9:58 PM
Anonymous said...: What exactly is meant by "move on already"?; January 13, 2007 9:44 AM