at the violet hour, when the eyes and back ( Read more... )

(different altogether than soundtrack to mary)

listen while you mull (you'd really need to listen on repeat unless you mull in a minute, which i can't, even)

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and if it's old hat to you, you can listen to it live from pittsburgh, with a commentary track:

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by chance, letting the chance of free association and random words guide me, i stumbled upon an author i was unfamiliar with, an author whom it appears was as remarkable and admirable a person as she may have been an author (not having had any real opportunity to investigate the latter as yet, i cannot opine). an author named helen hunt jackson. an ( Read more... )

so i was reading the original variety blurb review of mad max for perspective and saw one of the headlines along the right column was:

sofia coppola is no longerand i thought to myself, "what bizarre fate has befallen sofia that she has shuffled from this mortal coil ( Read more... )

i have to agree with the sportsguy who, after hearing chris martin and bruce springsteen sub in for an injured bono for u2, said there's an ineffable quality bono has you can't really replace. i would like to use the fray's cover of tryin' to throw your arms around the world, especially since the fray's how to save a life appeared on our first mix ( Read more... )

'zemgus girgensons leads asg vote', my initial reaction is to say gesundheit, which wikipedia defines as a response to sneezing in german. and it does appear to me that the writer has sneezed in german. grammar joke. but honestly i do love the interesting names of athletes.

i know enough about the transmission of viewpoints to know that it isn't nearly so much the strength of the viewpoint as the strength of the source of the viewpoint that matters. i'm used to having minority viewpoints on a lot of things (including, often, fairly trivial things). i'm not an evangelist. but setting aside that it doesn't fit my ( Read more... )

so this is the story. i had never heard of a birkensnake, still do not know its taxonomy (squamata, surely, but from there, whence?). but then i learned that a couple of my friends had been published in birkensnake 6. a birkensake 6, i should say, because there are 7. and i find the next bit put best by the managing editors at their website ( Read more... )