You know the day is going well when you’ve got three shots of espresso in your system and you’re still flatlining circa 11:15 AM. Faulty wiring may be involved.
All things considered, it’s been a decent week. I’ve got a rough script for the upcoming academic year in place; I’ve devised a spine-tingling new way to [...]
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The Salvage of the Second Self
Posted in amor fati!, evil twins, jazz hands!, vagaries of verse on July 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Use of Force
Posted in lapses of lame, vagaries of verse on July 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Will today’s post be a paean to William Carlos Williams? No, it will not be a paean to William Carlos Williams. Deception helps my bide my time when I’m slouching on my Throne of Lies.
Today I’m tinkering with a new schedule, one which I hope will get the best writing out of me. Said writing, however, does [...]
Saturdaze
Posted in navel-gazery, vagaries of verse on July 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s 8 o’clock on Saturday morning, and I’ve been up since 5:30. I have no explanation, I just thought you ought to know.
Mine is a fairly regimented life. On some days said regimen feels like the ol’ mind-forg’d manacles, but most of the time it seems like the only reasonable means of maintaining an equitable [...]
Bells and Whistles
Posted in vagaries of verse on July 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Let me tell you a little bit about my sense of form and function, style and substance. This will be like Smilla’s Sense of Snow, but less Danish. More like a scone, really.
Right now, for example, I’m busily resenting MySpace. They’ve recently “upgraded” the interface, if by “upgrade” they mean “added a lot of gewgaws and doozamahickeys [...]
The Story of D’oh
Posted in fear the narwhal!, vagaries of verse on June 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Am I making quasi-naughty allusions to Pauline Réage/Anne Desclos for the sake of my French-Canadian readers? Yes, yes I am. In my line of work we call that off-brand pandering.
While you recover, let me tell you how momentous the past six minutes have been.
First I realized that the projected title of the verse collection I [...]
A God for Guest
Posted in Munchausen alert!, vagaries of verse on June 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today I wrestled with prospective title lines for a good five minutes. Shall I entice the wayward surfer with a quote from The Big Lebowski? Shall I purposely misspell and weave a web to bedevil those prone to typos? Or should I sift my Rilke and Nietzsche, looking for something jubilant and life-affirming in their explosive prose? [...]
Cold Fusion
Posted in fear the hydra!, jazz hands!, vagaries of verse on June 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
First, to throw the celebrity hunters off the scent: Ed Begley, Jr. Let that be a lesson to you.
Today promises to be an odd one, as (one last round of grading aside) I have finished the last of my heavy lifting for the summer session, all wild variables in my life have been domesticated, and [...]
Think Warm Days Will Never Cease
Posted in navel-gazery, vagaries of verse on June 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s post could go many ways. Let us consider the options.
At first I planned to gloat about my radiant awesome, since I currently am among the select few humans with a copy of Emma Bolden’s The Mariner’s Wife. Empirically speaking, that makes me just slightly cooler than you are. Nothing personal. You can of course [...]
Vagaries of Ventilation
Posted in frothing, vagaries of verse on June 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’d like to say I’m blogging for extra-special reasons, but I’m not. I’m blogging because the goblin on my desktop told me to.
As of about six minutes ago, however, I did in fact realize something a lot like news: I now know the title of the collection I hope to finalize in the coming year. [...]
He’s Calling from Inside the House!!!
Posted in vagaries of verse, vague allusions on May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I think WordPress is doing this on purpose, that Brent Barry was fouled, and that the chupacabra was genetically engineered by the Puerto Rican military. Conspiracies all around!
I had a goodly chunk of time set aside to blog this morning, but between Charter cable (which is not without a sense of whimsy) and WordPress (which is mocking me [...]
