My springtime cold lingered for a week, and I’m still clearing my throat at intervals. So I’ve been cheering myself up by reading some of Russell Edson‘s prose poems. Here are two: The Fall There was a man who found two leaves and came indoors holding them out saying to his parents that he was […]
I have a really nasty cold and have spent the better part of today at home alternately napping and drinking large amounts of tea with honey, lemon, and grated ginger in it. Browsing the archives at Cute Overload is about as much intellectual activity as I’m up to at the moment, but it has cheered […]
Look, it’s a brand-new poetic form! The Fib is the invention of Gregory K. of GottaBook, and it’s kind of like a haiku, except that it’s got more than three lines, and the number of syllables to a line is based on the Fibonacci sequence: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, and so on. (As […]
Hey, local folks — anyone thinking of seeing this? Student production of Carmen, free, outdoors, this weekend and next. Hearing it in English is going to be a little weird, but I’m still planning on going to see it this Saturday night if it doesn’t rain. (Update several days later: Well, that was a nice […]
This all-purpose generic blog comment thread (via Crooked Timber) made me snicker, then guffaw. Partly because it reminded me so much of this skit. Update: They’re having more fun with it over at Making Light. And, since I am a copycat, I will now boil down half the posts on this blog to the following […]
Bardiac has started a Really dead women writers meme, aiming to put some pre-1800 women writers into an already-circulating list, and I can’t resist. Here’s her description: I’ll put in five women writers. If you’re interested, pick up the list, add five more of your favorites, and drop me a line at Bardiacblogger at yahoo […]
I don’t care how many "skinny guys with moppy hair" sharing "short, loud adolescent messages" there are on YouTube. I won’t hear a word against it if it means getting to see Natalie Dessay singing Monteverdi. (Mille grazie, Sarah! And what a voice!) And look at Tatiana Troyanos singing Strauss, Marilyn Horne and Joan Sutherland […]
I want to go to the GeekProm! (Is it open to info-sciences and humanities geeks as well as math and science geeks?) If only I lived in Minnesota. Every state should have a Geek Prom, don’t you think? Who’s with me? Who wants to organize one? Via PZ Myers, who has been honored with an […]
I’m still here, in case any of you were wondering. Life (specifically, where I’m going to be next year) is still uncertain, and I’d rather not post about it until things are a lot less up in the air. And plans for next year constitute a lot of what’s been on my mind; hence, fewer […]