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Spring and All
I'm beginning to smell springtime coming through my windows. The birds seem busier. The cats clamor to be allowed out. But our deciduous trees have yet to bud. They're still dung heap gray. But any morning I'll look out my bathroom window, see the flecks of green and think, "Uh oh, I've got the doom of another Mississippi summer to reckon with ( Read more... ) -
Maybe this is a better way of blogging?
Tough week on me physically. The past three weekends, I've either made overnight trips (to Memphis with Leanne, to Gurdon alone) to places where there were too many interesting things going on to work. Or I flat out blew on moping and dithering. So this week I had to grade around 50 papers that have been ranged in their files in a cardboard box ( Read more... ) -
Writer's Block: Robotic
Tom Servo from Mystery Science Theater 3000 -
Christopher Hitchens on Hannity & Colmes about Rev. Falwell's Death
Hitchens is wrong on the Iraq War, but when he's right, man it feels good to root him on.
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I finally found my cell phone!
I went through every pair of jeans this evening prior to sending those quarters into the machine to unleash the regular wash cycle. But what do I see at the bottom of the heap, as I'm lifting out the last pair of damp denims. Yep, my $140 cell phone! Beautiful ( Read more... ) -
Been sick and about to get sicker . . .
I knew I'd regret shaking so many hands during finals week ( Read more... ) -
Robyn Hitchcock -
One of my favorite songs right now. -
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There's a woman-child up in Saskatoon whose livejournal The Science of Awesomeness I want you all to add. She lost a hard-drinking but much-adored dad last month and is now leaving the job she has had in a fabrics shop. Her writing voice is playful, surreal, Anglophiliac, sometimes cuttingly funny and rich with those diamond glimpses of honesty ( Read more... ) -
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The Virginia Tech Guerilla angered me for another reason just now. It turns out he fancied himself a soldier in the class war. He says in the videos he sent to NBC that what set him off were the privileged kids with their gold chains, their trust funds, their cognac and their vodka, their debaucheries. I can hear Rush Limbaugh already. "You ( Read more... )