Monthly Archives: September 2007

[Note: new caegory of blog posts -- "feh." This is just me airing random rancor. So feel free to skip this post unless you enjoy that sort of thing.]  Two new things annoy the crap out of me. And since … Continue reading →

An interesting post over at Purple Motes about a street poet. Not a poet reciting his poetry on the street, but selling it sheet-by-sheet. Interesting. Sometimes–depending on the occasion–when I’m asked, "What do you do?" I answer, "I’m a poet." … Continue reading →

Passing    "thanks." the word eaten by wind as I hold the heavy door turn to catch a whiff of brunette and hazel and grey wool and iPod young young young slight and slightly curved for less time than it … Continue reading →

My folks bought my son the boardgame "Sorry" for his birthday earlier this month. Dan and I took it out the other night to play… and could not find the instructions. Well, the English instructions. The ones in Spanish were … Continue reading →

Interesting discussion going on over at Terra Nova about the idea of academic tenure vs. business acumen. The idea that a tenured professor is necessarily a good teacher is as laughable as the idea that a VP is necessarily good … Continue reading →

Dry   When the ocean fled we were left with many dead fish. That Wednesday (Thursday in Japan) when the seas just up and ran the fishermen in fallen hulls had one or two good raking days of harvest. Bloated … Continue reading →

Another fine post (a bit aged; my bad) from Purple Motes, this time about the decline in literary reading in the U.S. The news comes from an NEA report, "Reading at Risk." The short version is summed up by the … Continue reading →

A couple different blogs in my stream have pointed me to the Conservapedia. The blog posts make for some fun reading; the consensus seems to be that the Conservapedia is real — i.e., the whole thing isn’t a hoax — … Continue reading →