so with my free time i've been looking at grad schools for...bum bum bum...education ( Read more... )

will foremost and heretofore be thrown gallantly to kate beaton.

want obscure historical comics? napoleon getting fat over cookies?

yes you do!

andrew

so the last post made me start thinking: why do people dislike poetry? why do people LIKE poetry?

so i put this question out to the public:

why do you like poetry?
why don't you like it?

what brought you to poetry in the first place?
what's the story behind you hating it?

interesting to know...

andrew

people who don't appreciate poetry, and call it shit. you can not appreciate poetry and leave it alone, but calling it shit is another thing. i suppose everyone does this to some sort of art or some sort of thing. you may not say it, but you think it. i know someone here thinks that something is shit -- what say you? john cage's music? 3'43 ( Read more... )

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...not funny at all? or secretly hilarious. you decide.

andrew

victoria, thanks ( Read more... )

despite my love for dc, i have recently had a strong pull towards springfield. i remember when the education question in longmeadow was big big in high school, and i was pretty up into that scene, i loved the political activity, at least. then we got gay marriage rights a few years back. historic. we've got a lovely area. it's just that ( Read more... )

is it bad that i've been really nostalgic lately? coming up along the last post, my nostalgia has recently eaten me up and as soon as my energy goes down from being at school (whose (is that the right possessive?) environment i really love -- easy-going classes, decent and great students, and really nice colleagues) i start to get homesick and a ( Read more... )

i had a terrible attack of home sickness. after a long, long time, i finally felt how much i missed the US. i always say here how much of a gringo i am, that i'm way loyal to my own country, and that i miss it and all...but it's forced to say it, cause it's what people are expecting. it's true. but meh ( Read more... )

my friend haley's written in the philadelphia inquirer online a little somethin interesting...

question: are we the generation that's really gonn' help out? my idealism says yes. anyone else's?

andrew