we celebrate the cat’s eighteen years today … but there’s no reason to get all sentimental about it & all … i mean really … she’s just a cat …
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i know this is something of a cliche by now … probably in the top three of Most Famous Cat Poems … but I like it [...]
‘Started with a line I read in the paper one day: “He studied so hard it was as if he had a future.” It was about this kid who got blown up in a suicide bomb on a bus in Israel. They say God doesn’t give you anything he knows you can’t handle. Well, I [...]
no walk this morning … the cat woke me up with a wild yowl about four … but the alarm was not set for the weekday … no matter … i needed the extra hour …
mass … dove into twelfth night act two with the seniors after wrwestling a bit with frye’s article … [...]
it was the sun hitting the red flannel sheets … bouncing to the wall … bouncing to my eye
Link: Cover stories | Review | Guardian Unlimited Books.
Five leading designers explain how they re-covered their favourite novels for the 60th anniversary of Penguin Classics
via Poetry Hut Blog
i’m reading sophomore papers on “murders in the rue morgue” … i’m walking in a cold wind … i’m wondering about the origins of the hebrew language … i’m extending my arm and looking out the office window … i’m listening to a friend’s ridiculous notion … let the cat grade the papers … [...]
a little tired … when i turned in my grades yesterday afternoon and posted them online for parties all to see, i felt like it should be friday … right then … but it wasn’t …
and you’d think this would have stretched out the week …that today and tomorrow would seem just … too [...]
it’s made of PALINDROMES … fer pete’s sake …
Link: YouTube - Weird Al Yankovic-Bob.
counting posts and counting posts until just now … when the site goes down … and i have to stop counting posts … so i think about tomorrow’s classes for awhile … and try the site - the discussion boards … but they’re still down …
i say to myself … this was inevitable … [...]
from Laughing Knees:
That is where dinosaurs scuttled, continents jittered, Jesus claimed he was the son of a god, the Buddha found a truth, Julius Ceasar claimed victory over the whole world, Mick Jagger sang “I Can’t Get No Satisfaction”, a growing, vibrating spot of microbial beings threatened to overwhelm the dot, two tiny projectiles plinked [...]
one counts discussion board posts until the back of the neck rings up to say stop it you can’t do this anymore tonight … this … the last day and now night of the first quarter finds one … as usual … struggling to catch up in the little time left … there are some [...]
cool britpoet pix here: www.madwaller.co.uk … click on the word “colour” … neat book format, too
Link: SFGate: World Views : Edward M. Gomez.
The provisions of Bush’s new torture law mean that Americans have lost the key, constitutional right on which Anglo-American criminal law (and criminal-law procedures in true democracies in general) is founded; that’s the basic right of an individual to know why he or she is being apprehended [...]
