Fighting Gravity

Today promises to be tragic, if only because what might have been an off day will instead be devoted to work.  The tragedy, alas, is that the work I’ll be doing is getting done in anticipation of a hectic week to come; the work I do today will be the work I would normally do [...]

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Sunday Sundries

Right now as I type, a spider is walking down my arm.  He is a spindly little thing with legs as fine as the hair he’s treading upon, the kind of spider you would only need to blow away if you were so inclined.  We seem to be getting on fairly well, however, and if [...]

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Sex and the Single Professor V; or, The Pudding Problem

Before I begin, the requisite disclaimer:  I am just a quizzical little man, and I don’t know much of anything about anything.  Left unattended in the Shopping Cart of Life, however, I will bring the gumption.  And I will fill your basket up with boxes and boxes of Frankenberry.  It makes milk turn pink.
Thanks to a few well-placed [...]

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Binding with Briars

Today’s post will involve miscellaneous meanderings, but they will all be set against the backdrop of my rickety self-discipline (hence the Blake in the subject, which is one of the very few times you’ll see me quote anything but The Marriage of Heaven and Hell).  As a word of worldly advice, it is generally unwise to [...]

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The Infernal Return

I suspect I’ve got about 21 minutes of coherence left today–in retrospect, I’m beginning to think I might have devoted some of this break to scripted recreation–so let’s jump right in.
Right now I’m sure I cut a figure something akin to “Homeless Man #2″ on Homicide:  Life on the Streets.  In an effort to be [...]

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Sex and the Single Professor IV; or, All Things Considered

Astute WordPressers may realize, based on the formatting of this post, that I have typed this in Microsoft Word and pasted it hither.  That should let you all know the high degree of seriousness with which I approach today’s subject.
With such sobriety in mind, let me begin with a shocking proposition:  sometimes English professors have [...]

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The Rest Is Silence

Criminy.  I knew I hadn’t blogged in a bit, but I didn’t realize that the silence stretched back to the 21st of February.  Of course, that sense of surprise comes from an addled mind that essentially double-posted over at Myspace yesterday, so let’s keep our expectations low, shall we?
Alas, this is a bit of meta-bloggery, [...]

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