I really wish I could get away from poetry. It would really save me so much trouble. And yet ( Read more... )

The man sat there and looked at the screen. That was his only job, to sit and look at this screen that was so preposterously too big for him that he had to look out the wrong end of the binoculars. Every few seconds he would shout an order, and the others would scurry to carry them out. At least, at first I thought they were instructions, but ( Read more... )

Also, Julia said "Bye bye, Uncle Sam" so clearly today and of her own volition. Maybe it's about time after a month or two of coaxing and bribery, but I'm just happy.

"I do much wonder that one man, seeing how much another man is a fool when he dedicates his behaviors to love, will, after he hath laughed at such shallow follies in others, become the argument of his own scorn by falling in love: and such a man is Claudio. I have known when there was no music in him but the drum and the fife; and now had he ( Read more... )

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I started writing tonight with a totally different object in mind, but after I got through about a page of that, something hit me, and the idea kind of took hold, so I'm going to write about that instead. Don't worry, what I wrote about other stuff will be posted eventually, and I'm sure it'll be something of a letdown when it comes out if you're ( Read more... )

Interesting happenings tonight. Bagged my first non-chipmunk on the road, totally unintentionally as well. Hit me a possum. That was something ( Read more... )

Nothing is so good as driving the miles from Five Corners in Clinton to 495 in Boxborough, especially when it's a beautiful night with a beautiful sunset. But most especially when there is no one on the road and the air is perfect and you can blast With or Without You (or any song you prefer really) and sing your lungs off. Those are the best

Ok so addendum. Reading the poem out loud helped. It's better than I thought. But it ends with a thud and I don't like that. Grr...

Have you ever heard Debussy's "Claire de Lune"? I think it is the third movement of his Suite Bergamesque. Something like that. It's one of the most famous pieces of classical music, and I think definitely the most famous piece of impressionism. I think it was played near the end of Ocean's Eleven, when the guys are staring at the Bellagio ( Read more... )