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NOM Iowand
The NOM people have a link where you can write to the Iowa senators. I'm not sure I'll send from their website, since you have to give your address, but I did draft a letter, since it's so fun that you can edit theirs--here's my twisting of it below--you can edit it yourself here ( Read more... ) -
Watchmen
Okay,
this might be a **SPOILER ALERT**,
but maybe not. If you've read the novel, you'll get this.
Isn't Ozymandias' entire character based on a misreading of the poem? So, he's the smartest man in the world, but somehow literary criticism is beyond his ken ( Read more... ) -
Poetry 2
popebuck1 pointed out Whitman in my last post about poetry, and really, how could I leave out Whitman, the great and mostly likely gay king of American ecstasy? Fred Hersch has a great piece/song cycle based on Leaves of Grass, and this particular section I now can't hear except to music (at least the bolded parts that he set to music)--
I am he that ( Read more... ) -
Blossom
Oh, sad. Blossom Dearie has left the building.
I saw her at Danny's Skylight Room in Danny's Grand Sea Palace on 46th in 2001. So wonderful. -
Valentine's Day Poetry
I'm not a fan of Valentine's Day, but it put me in mind of this poem by ee cummings, which is probably my favorite poem ever, notwithstanding my strange HS Freshman obsession with The Hollow Men and later love of Auden (who knew he had his own society?), being the gay. This poem, though, just gets me (and I have to admit, yes, I was introduced to ( Read more... ) -
Clogs!
The Clogmaster is coming to town! Yippee!
This is like the guy in NY who used to come in from Hong Kong once a year, take measurements, and then make fitted shirts for $35 a pop. How nice to have things that fit, huh? -
Interviewer
I think this is like that 5 questions meme that was going around (was it 5?), but this is in response to the Interviewer meme that I volunteered for. And check out the recent profiles about this year's Supporting Actress crop. They're really good ( Read more... ) -
Nobody Loves a Fairy
Today I thought "I'm forty". Not dramatically, but more like, "huh" and a small "eep". And then this song popped into my head ( Read more... )
