The stallion cat. He was the biggest and bravest cat of them all. All the other cats on the farm wanted to be just like him. His name was Butch McWhiskers. He had traveled to Italy where he made a brief cameo in The Bloody Chamber (a highly under/over rated piece of British literature that is essentially the repackaging of and retelling of classic ( Read more... )

The car slides sideways

cones

signs

lights

a child

nothing is spared

The squeal of the tires makes everyone turn their heads and stare at the vehicular landslide careering through the intersection

Then the tires blow The sidewalls giving way Air pushing through the rubber sun dried and worn out ( Read more... )

Jerome McGann

“Contemporary text theory, in the arena of literary scholarship, founded itself on the idea of authorial intentions…. [From Parker] This process [of creation which is specific to every literary work] may become diverted or corrupted in many ways, by the author or by any number of other agents” (41).

McGann bases much of ( Read more... )

So, allow me to first say that I am doing one of my somewhat random music scans and my little external is up to nearly 35K.  I think that 34,575 is a rather impressive number if you ask me.  I wonder what else I can find to put on there?  I am almost through all of my cds...almost.  Anyway, running has taken a spot on the backburner because of ( Read more... )

I am no stranger to irony.  Irony are the wonderful little things that remind me how wonderful the world is in all of its mysterious contradiction.  I am never at a loss of amazement at how simple and complex the world can be all at the same time.  Today for instance, I was looking for room 348 in the building where I have all of my classes.  I ( Read more... )

I really wish I could say differently, but this empty feeling is quite haunting.  I can't shake the feeling that something is missing from my life.  Even when I spend days caught up in a river of bliss, there is still that nagging feeling in the pit of my stomach that something is askew.  A view askew.  I've been struggling with staying on schedule ( Read more... )

I need some new ideas for tags.  I'm havin a hard time commin up with things that would actually be worth it.  Any ideas?

There should be a holiday where the entire day is devoted to NOT using cars. Mucinicpal vehicles could turn, I guess. But I think it would be cool if everyone was forced to walk or transport themselves by some way other than cars. Hmmmm. This thought deserves some development.

Around lunch time, I gradually deleloped a burning feeling of disconent.  I then proceeded to spend the remainder of the day thinking about how much I really want to be in an altered state.  This has definitley been one of those days where I just want to release it all, forget about it, and lose myself to the sweet seduction of altered ( Read more... )

As I sit in-front of my computer, contemplating what I am going to write about, a thought popped into my mind ( Read more... )