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wet for Blog Action Day
It is Blog Action Day 2010 today, and the topic is water. Right now, almost a billion people on the planet don’t have access to clean, safe drinking water. That’s one in eight of us.Unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation cause 80% of diseases and kill more people every year than all forms of violence, including war. Children are especially ( Read more... ) -
So hey
I am moving into a new house on Monday! Which is actually my old house, newly renovated. After precisely 359486458 years of picking out wallpaper and floorboard and fireplaces I can relaaxxx and stop dreaming about carpets. I have spent so many weekends looking at wallpaper, I swear I know how exactly Charlotte Perkins Gilman felt.
I am also moving ( Read more... ) -
cummings and Goings
The poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople-- it's no use trying to pretend that mostpeople and ourselves are alike. Mostpeople have less in common with ourselves than the squarerootofminusone. You and I are human beings;mostpeople are snobs. Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to mostpeople? Catastrophe ( Read more... ) -
Earth: She had saved it!
You know, it's weird that I can't stand science fiction these days* considering I used to write stories like this when I was nine:
When aliens came to Earth, they wanted to make mankind slaves. They drained the clouds out of the atmosphere, then drained that too. Then they sucked up the sea and opened the hatch in space. This left Earth at their ( Read more... ) -
Happy Winterness
In which I present to you the top five holiday songs of ever.
1. My Chimney - DJ Riko featuring White Stripes
2. Little Drummer Boy - Bing Crosby & David Bowie
“Hello. I’m David Bowie, I live down the road.”
3. The Christmas Song - Pretty Balanced
“Fuck the daisies. I want Christmas, now.” This band is now known as The Alphabet. For the mp3, leave ( Read more... ) -
Nostalgia
Nostalgia comes from the Greek "nostos" for "return home" and "algia" for pain. The Oxford English Dictionary defines it as "a form of melancholia caused by prolonged absence from one's home or country or a severe homesickness." But can it be solved by going home? Does the feeling of homesickness ever go away ( Read more... ) -
Corsetina
I've been experimenting with strict poetic form today-- the corsetina. It is very restrictive (which is what you'd expect with a name like corsetina, really) and perhaps writing while watching Dude Where's My Car didn't make it any easier.
The rules are on Juliet Cook's site but I obviously misread them, having only written one-stanza poems. But ( Read more... ) -
Student papers
Let me tell you about The Mishaps of Jennifer Lee.
I don't know why I get so angry about that one column in The Stag. She's not a threatening character. She's just a latte-swigging platinum credit-card-weilding screaming clear area with a wig on* and I'm sure the writer has good intentions. Just... god.... I loathe that woman ( Read more... )
