one http://brtom.edublogs.org learning :: on the ceiling :: for everybody Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:20:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en try TWO http://brtom.edublogs.org/2008/02/02/try-two/ http://brtom.edublogs.org/2008/02/02/try-two/#comments Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:19:24 +0000 brtom http://brtom.edublogs.org/2008/02/02/try-two/ Please go to my other bog Two
I’m not doing anything here right now.


Authored by brtom. Hosted by Edublogs.]]> http://brtom.edublogs.org/2008/02/02/try-two/feed/ what is this? http://brtom.edublogs.org/2007/03/22/what-is-this/ http://brtom.edublogs.org/2007/03/22/what-is-this/#comments Fri, 23 Mar 2007 01:26:58 +0000 brtom http://brtom.edublogs.org/2007/03/22/what-is-this/ i just noticed that chris murray has linked to this ONE … so an explanation is in order … partly because i’m confusing even myself with this flurry of blogs …

i am currently blogging via typepad … with two and plainer … but the problem is that i’m actually paying for the typepad service & it ain’t very cheap … and i’ve decided i just don’t need what TP offers … so when my term runs out sometime near the end of summer i’ll be shifting back to this here ONE … or maybe one i operate from my own site, which is already THREE … in the meantime, i’m at the other spot … thanks for dropping by


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Link: Miles Davis & John Coltrane- SO WHAT.


Authored by brtom. Hosted by Edublogs.]]> http://brtom.edublogs.org/2007/03/03/jazz-for-you/feed/ suzanna’s GIG jig http://brtom.edublogs.org/2007/03/01/suzannas-gig-jig/ http://brtom.edublogs.org/2007/03/01/suzannas-gig-jig/#comments Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:43:18 +0000 brtom http://brtom.edublogs.org/2007/03/01/suzannas-gig-jig/ check out suzanne’s amazing tale … [[here]] …

way … to … go … lady … !!


Authored by brtom. Hosted by Edublogs.]]> http://brtom.edublogs.org/2007/03/01/suzannas-gig-jig/feed/ a hard knocking comes http://brtom.edublogs.org/2007/03/01/a-hard-knocking-comes/ http://brtom.edublogs.org/2007/03/01/a-hard-knocking-comes/#comments Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:06:40 +0000 brtom http://brtom.edublogs.org/2007/03/01/a-hard-knocking-comes/ i crawl out of the swamp to name ten influential books of poetry … no order … for jordan …

Complete Poems - Carl Sandburg

The Waste Land and Other Poems - T. S. Eliot

The Double Dream of Spring - John Ashbery

Post-War Polish Poetry - Czeslaw Milosz (ed.)

This in Which - George Oppen

One Night Stand & Other Poems - Jack Spicer

Collected Poems - Frank O’Hara

Selected Poems - William Carlos William

A Selection of Poems - E. E. Cummings

The Crystal Lithium - James Schuyler

using a very narrow sense of ‘influential’ … these at one time or another in the past forty years were books i’d open, read for a few or more than a few minutes, then jump up for a pencil to write my own … they made me want to write my own


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Authored by brtom. Hosted by Edublogs.]]> http://brtom.edublogs.org/2007/02/27/swamped/feed/ cathblogawa http://brtom.edublogs.org/2007/02/24/cathblogawa/ http://brtom.edublogs.org/2007/02/24/cathblogawa/#comments Sun, 25 Feb 2007 04:05:46 +0000 brtom http://brtom.edublogs.org/2007/02/24/cathblogawa/ i’m trying to figure out why i’m so unsettled by so many of the blogs that i’ve found via the 2007 Catholic Blog Awards … i mean pepto-bismol unsetttled … i keep hoping that the blogs will rise a few feet higher than yr average ewtn production … but …

well … really … i should talk … i realize that you’d have to look very very closely to spot me as catholic anything … and i’m sorry for that … i’ve never known exactly how to present myself AS catholic … (and now isn’t that just weird?) … and i know this puzzles and disappoints some people … but i’ve always felt it was kind of impolite to push one’s religious tendencies in the presence of others (holden caulfield: “Catholics are always trying to find out if you’re a Catholic”) … and i know we live in very impolite times … but …

uh … sorry about that …

here are a few catholic blogs that don’t make me squirm too much …

In Today’s News

Journey to Vatican III

Catholicism, holiness, and spirituality

Flos Carmeli

Catholic Sensibility

Musings of a Discerning Woman

Kicking and Screaming


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Authored by brtom. Hosted by Edublogs.]]> http://brtom.edublogs.org/2007/02/23/more-on-the-opera/feed/ battle of the bands http://brtom.edublogs.org/2007/02/23/battle-of-the-bands/ http://brtom.edublogs.org/2007/02/23/battle-of-the-bands/#comments Sat, 24 Feb 2007 03:18:18 +0000 brtom http://brtom.edublogs.org/2007/02/23/battle-of-the-bands/ as usual my ears are humming … i was “an adult presence” more or less … i stood around watching and listening but i was too close down front .. when a few kids wanted to dance on my side i stood between them and the stage and looked official … the bands are always surprising … as impressive in unexpected ways … sure somebody’s off-key sometimes or the beat gets momentarily lost (but hardly ever cuz the drummers are spectacular across the board) or this song is pretty much like the last one … and sure i never could make out more than a moment’s worth of lyrics … but i could tell they were saying something & trying real hard to mean it … some had a really strong presence … being there & owning the stage for the moment … letting the music take them … it was this most evident desire to give themselves to the music that ran through every band & made it worth being there while it happened … and all these folks are ours and they walk the halls every day being ordinary carmel kids … and they come out on a friday night and rock the place … and buzz my old ears


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