Will there be a special cameo appearance by Grandmaster Flash? I’m not saying yes, but I’m not saying no.
Tomorrow, in any case, I launch into 75 days of concentrated activity, activity I have divided into five tidy fifteen-day segments. If you were in my apartment right now, it would be more than a little creepy; [...]
Archive for May, 2009
The Furious Five
Posted in Uncategorized on May 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Is There a Poet in the House?
Posted in Uncategorized on May 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Not much time to post: the wheels are spinning and I’m feeling a little bit giddy. I have come across a question, however, that perhaps some kindly seasoned poet out there can answer.
I’m preparing a manuscript for entry into a number of first-book contests, and most of those contests quite reasonably go to considerable lengths [...]
Process and Progress (Part I)
Posted in Uncategorized on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday, with much fanfare and espresso, I began work on the manuscript.
“Beginning” of course is a fairly relativistic concept, since much of the work I’ve done over the past several months properly constitutes a bevy of non-false starts, but yesterday I actually opened up the document, replaced the tentative title I had assigned the assemblage [...]
The Summoner’s Tale
Posted in Uncategorized on May 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was feeling a smidgen guilty about taking a one-week blogging vacation (although I’ve added bits and bobs over at Myspace, since popular culture never sleeps), but then I noticed that about 90% of the blogs I read have either a) gone silent for the summer or b) recently posted placeholders, notes that account for [...]
The Glass Dais
Posted in Uncategorized on May 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I went on a quest. My quarry? The most elusive metaphor of all.
If you spotted me yesterday, chances are pretty good that you were actually in my apartment. Aside from a trip to the grocery store and the coffee shoppe circa 7:30, I stayed indoors. I needed to wind through the corridors of my [...]
Credit Is Cute
Posted in Uncategorized on May 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a miniature follow-up on the cursory business critique I offered a few days back.
Like many humans, I make use of credit liberally. I’m kwazy for e-commerce, and only seldom do I get through a month without making some kind of virtual purchase. I’m much better with my cards than I used to be: once [...]
Mad Math
Posted in academia, advanced navel-gazery on May 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the dead of night, when the world is asleep and no one is looking, I dabble in the blackest of arts: statistics and probabilities. My inner mathematician is mysterious, mighty, and mischievous.
I’m a duffer, as you might guess, so rather than compiling Excel spreadsheets and clogging my computer’s circuitry with programs designed to crunch [...]
Good Gnus
Posted in good gnus! on May 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Much to my delight, my verse appears in the latest online edition of The Tusculum Review, where I have the pleasure and honor to number among their featured artists.
Stop on by and take a gander, and be sure to give the site a good, long browse.
Oddities and Endities
Posted in Uncategorized on May 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After a wild and woolly week I believe I’m officially ready to settle into the summer. I had exam sessions back-to-back-to-back on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday; made a visit to Kalamazoo on Thursday/Friday/Saturday; and spent the remainder of Saturday cleaning up stately Wandless Manor. The coming week will be devoted to recalibrating my cranium for [...]
No Money, Mo’ Problems
Posted in Uncategorized on May 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This morning, in fly-by form, allow me to dislodge some glop from my craw. The subject: consumer economics.
Times are tough, or so the media would have us believe. We can deduce this toughness from the frantic activity at the uppermost levels of the economy, where paper is getting pushed back and forth and panic is [...]
