fresh hell : sept 22

- arts | fashion: flappers, follies & feathers

• the new woman : the flapper & all that jazz (including Josephine Baker)
• the new shape : from the curve to the line -- the dramatic change in fashion during the early 20th century
• folies & follies : what are they, where do they come from and what do they have to do with fashion?
• josephine baker : who was she and why was she so fascinating?

These are still in need of some tweaking and editing but the basic information is now up. To check these out as separate pages click on individual topics or just click on arts | fashion and read them all at once.

fresh hell : sept 20

kih | arts | fashion | project runway

• mug shot chic : the latest trend in men's fashion
• repeat offenders : episode 10 -- thoughts on bringing back various designers
• stuck in the past : is it impossible to update jackie o?

kih | arts | modernism/dance/fashion

• josephine baker : a brief bio (more to come . . . )
  

fresh hell : sept 18

• kih | arts | fashion | project runway : jay mccarroll runway review ; josephine baker teaser & more!

fresh hell : sept 14

• kih | fashion | project runway : episode 10 -- this installment includes laura's triumph, the return of the repressed, another e-z sew pattern, and an insouciance & apéritif retrospective
  
• kih | letters : the french department -- kih presents a new resource entitled "pretend to speak french"

fresh hell : sept 13

• kih | letters : who in hell is kora in hell? (a description of William Carlos Williams' Kora in Hell, 1920)
  

fresh hell : sept 12

• kih | arts | fashion : project runway 10
  

- Speculation on tomorrow night's "special guests" +
- Insouciance & Apéritif (at right) are back!

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I have a Ph.D. in English and twenty years of experience working in academia as both a teacher and an administrator. My scholarship examines various intersections between literature and the visual arts. As an administrator I did advanced research development including grant writing in nearly every area of the humanities and social sciences. I also worked in medicine and in the technology industry. I now work freelance as a writer and researcher. I specialize in developing materials for presentation and publication such as teaching, lectures, and exhibits. Please send me an email if you would like to know more about my work and what I might be able to do for you.

fresh hell : sept 9

• kih | arts | fashion : project runway: 9 -- the nightmare is over -- remarks on episode 9, now with "first responders"
• kih | sciences : the dunning kruger effect
• kih | letters : kora in hell (1920) excerpts

fresh hell : sept 5

kih | arts | fashion | project runway
there's a fine line between holly hobbie and haute couture . . .
the hh chronicles
the hobbien mysteries
when hh hits the runway
circa 1974

guidelines

1. Critics and Connoisseurs

What is
there in being able
to say that one has dominated the stream in an attitude of self-defense;
in proving that one has had the experience
of carrying a stick?


2. Those Various Scalpels

Are they weapons or scalpels?
Whetted to brilliance
by the hard majesty of that sophistication which is superior to opportunity,

these things are rich instruments with which to experiment
But why dissect destiny with instruments
more highly specialized than components of destiny itself?

--Marianne Moore