DC Does Davis
Or is it Davis Does DC?...
A few weeks ago, not three blocks from my house in little ol' innocent Davis, CA, bandits broke into a bank armed with shotguns and proceeded to escape with a bag of loot. Unfortunately for them, the clever tellers had stuck one of those explosive ink devices in the bag with said loot and the whole plan was ruined. While the plan failed, Ozzie and I felt the attempt to make us feel at home was clearly a success.
I recently went to a party with some of the older psychology graduate students at Davis. One woman was there with her brother, and after a few minutes of conversation, we found out that both of their parents are clinical psychologists, which seemed perhaps a slight sore spot for the two of them. The brother quipped, "Don't ring any bells." We laughed and laughed! "You don't know what we'll do," replied the sister.
Favorite Word of the Week: phantasmatical (if anyone can define it, please let me know (Dan?)...dictionary.com isn't helping).
A few weeks ago, not three blocks from my house in little ol' innocent Davis, CA, bandits broke into a bank armed with shotguns and proceeded to escape with a bag of loot. Unfortunately for them, the clever tellers had stuck one of those explosive ink devices in the bag with said loot and the whole plan was ruined. While the plan failed, Ozzie and I felt the attempt to make us feel at home was clearly a success.
I recently went to a party with some of the older psychology graduate students at Davis. One woman was there with her brother, and after a few minutes of conversation, we found out that both of their parents are clinical psychologists, which seemed perhaps a slight sore spot for the two of them. The brother quipped, "Don't ring any bells." We laughed and laughed! "You don't know what we'll do," replied the sister.
Favorite Word of the Week: phantasmatical (if anyone can define it, please let me know (Dan?)...dictionary.com isn't helping).
posted by Aaron @ 12:32 PM
1 Comments:
At 10:10 PM,
Dan said…
Eek, sorry to hear about the bank robbery. Sounds like something that could only happen in the small towns of yesteryear. The good old days, if you will. Was a woman in a dress tied to nearby train tracks? Did the fuzz spot the perps from the town's hot-air balloon? It’s a good thing their mis-deed was foiled by that clever ink device. That’ll learn ‘em, yessir.
So, phantasmatical, eh? Obviously it’s related to phantasmagoria, which is a word most people have heard, but phantasmatical sounds a bit clunky, even for that wacky word family. Why not phantasmatic? Or Phantasmical? Anyway, you’re right that the online dictionaries don’t tend to include the word, I think because it’s antiquated. Several online sources stated it simply to mean phantasmal, which, along with phantasmic, is an adjective, meaning: “of, relating to, or in the nature of an illusion; lacking reality” (they both have the same meaning and are synonyms…I suppose the word was split a la my previous point?).
Anyway, I assume this came up relating to your critical theory class, as I see you’re now doing Judy B’s Melodramatic Repetition and Gender Performative, which is, I’m assuming, psychoanalytic/Lacanian-based. In terms of identity, there is always an illusion taken as the real, or something to that effect, yes? I have no idea what melodramatic repetition is, but it sounds very fun!
Did you have a film festival this weekend? If you, following your syllabus, watched or re-watched The Shining and haven’t yet seen the re-worked “trailer” that’s all over the internets right now, it’s a real gas: http://www.ps260.com/molly/SHINING%20FINAL.mov
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