What sorts of things should be done festina lente ("by making haste slowly")? I have it in mind to write something with that title, but my original concept is just not working out for me ( Read more... )

Resolved: Shippy adventure tales about space pilots can only be improved by inclusion of references to Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Seriously, though, doesn't part of "Renascence" remind you of a rocket launch? Specifically this part:

But, sure, the sky is big, I said ( Read more... )

Someone took photos at some recent location filming for Fringe. Spoily! ( Spoily comment )

O Flist, I've found myself watching some Northern Exposure episodes of late, and I'm contemplating a complete (well, complete through the first six episodes of S6, anyway) rewatch. Anyone feel like joining me? (P.S. If you like quirky, charming, intelligent, unexpectedly moving dramedies, now would be an EXCELLENT time to discover this one!) I' ( Read more... )

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Made a Wiki Walk over to incandescens's journal today, and found that she posts marvelous poetry by many different people all the time. I really like quirky, but not to the point where it stops making sense, and it's like incandescens can read ( Read more... )

All right, gamesiplay wrote this epic post about "perfect" poems, and now I have to navel-gaze about that for a while. A perfect poem is different from a "favorite" or "best" poem, though for me there's significant overlap. The working definition that she came up with is that "it has to do with some kind of intersection between an idea that affects me ( Read more... )

Matt Wertz
Red Meets Blue. Not, as I thought at first, a love song concerning a Republic and a Democrat, but catchy and pretty nevertheless. (The lyrics about red and blue are fairly nonsensical, though.)
Everything's Right. Catchy. Catchy, catchy, catchy. It makes me want to choreograph a dance that includes a lot of leaps and acrobatics. ( Read more... )

( Very possibly my new favorite Boland poem )

Along with finishing Midnight's Children, I renewed my acquaintance with Edna St. Vincent Millay today. Although, yes, I'm writing my thesis on Boland, and I've always loved Yeats, Millay might actually be my favorite poet. Well, tied for first, anyway. I always think of the latter half of my teenage years when I think of her, because I ( Read more... )

Fifteen books (and/or plays) you've read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes.

1. Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (also Ulysses)
2. Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio
3. Bujold, Barrayar (also perhaps Shards of Honor and A Civil Campaign)
4. Steinbeck, East of Eden
5. White, The ( Read more... )