fiddle: toy: manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination.

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I have just started reading In the Country of Country: People and Places in American Music, a series of travelogues and biographies about the people and places that originate and sustain "authentic" country music ( Read more... )

Odd pop cultural moment for me; Warning: To me, there is nothing that fails to build meaning ( Read more... )

Still looking at my psycho-social construction, in terms of class ... :

( personal economics )

I know the last two posts were long and choppy. What I was trying to do, though, was get myself down -- wings under pins under glass -- and see how I might be conditioned by my class background -- how some life options might never even occur to me, how others come like instinct, how I might choose more knowingly ( Read more... )

( up to now )

Reading "That's Revolting," being prodded by 2fruition's wonderful recent posts, and talking some time ago about this to dom_ino, I have been thinking a lot about class ( Read more... )

Tried to start the book last night. Got brambled in the habits from the last collection: overly lyrical, rural imagery cut against open-ended emotional or theoretical assertions -- a kind of ping-pong game of spare symbol acretion and personal philosophy ( Read more... )