Well, so much for R&R.
Instead of devoting the weekend to a concerted bout of chillaxin’, I found myself intensely focused on a new poem for most of Saturday and intensely focused on preparing my last batch of September submissions for most of Sunday. I’m one trip to the P.O. short of finished, and then the slate [...]
Archive for the ‘vague allusions’ Category
There’s Another Dog
Posted in evil twins, vague allusions on September 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Use of Pleasure
Posted in amor fati!, vague allusions on August 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today I shall mislead the trigger-happy Foucauldians. Something tells me they will nonetheless feel right at home.
Assuming my life does not go utterly sour in the next five hours or so, I will have had a mighty fine week. For novelty’s sake, I will not brace myself for imminent disaster. I will, however, turn off the ringer on [...]
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 [...]
The Crunching Crisis
Posted in amor fati!, lapses of lame, vague allusions on May 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If I came across Crunching Crisis in the cereal aisle I would buy two boxes. Today, however, the seemingly delicious term represents an especially dire kind of math.
First, some sobering news for the poets. Given the nature of my professional obligations, I can only manage a half-time commitment to verse, a half-time commitment to fiction, a half-time commitment [...]
The Day After
Posted in fear the kraken!, navel-gazery, vague allusions on May 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Why yes, I do choose my post titles so students Googling for free term papers wind up reading my blog instead. Don’t you? Sorry to all the youth of America looking for insight into Robert Herrick over the past few days. You’ll find no insight here. If you look carefully, however, you’ll find veiled allusions to [...]
Les Mots and les Choses
Posted in astonishing rhetoric!, frothing, vague allusions on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In an effort to make my life a little less noodlesome, I broke some bad internet habits a couple months back. I weaned myself off some message boards, killed an e-mail address or three, unsubscribed from some listservs, and otherwise tried to decrease my virtual footprint. Nowadays, when I fill in my odd hours, I [...]
Life to the Lees
Posted in evil twins, vague allusions on April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I attempted to blog yesterday, but at the tail end of grading 70 essays my prose was somewhat less than scintillating. This is the only arena in which I try not to take my writing ultra-seriously, but I do aspire to something akin to zesty coherence.
Grading aside, it was something of an odd weekend. On Friday [...]
The More Beautiful Question
Posted in astonishing rhetoric!, navel-gazery, vague allusions on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On the radio this morning a woman was lamenting her romantic fortunes. First she wed the inattentive go-getter, the one whose wealth and ambition could not fill the hole in her heart. Next she wed the charming philanderer, the one whose philandering had already philanded him in divorce court twice (to her knowledge) before they tied the [...]
Daze of the Dead
Posted in lapses of lame, navel-gazery, vague allusions on April 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today I shall laze. Were I more ambitious, I would attempt to lase, which would turn this post into an homage to Real Genius. Alas, I lack the gumption.
Wednesday the end of the semester begins in good earnest: I will collect about 75 essays, conference with my intermediate composition students, and start assembling final exams. Anything [...]
Process and Progress
Posted in navel-gazery, vague allusions, tagged fodder for Freudians, on writing on March 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We’re on the other side of Spring Break here at CMU, and I think the return has jarred quite a few folks into a fugue state. It’s difficult to recover the momentum built up over eight weeks of class, harder still when classes wrap up for good in the short stretch from now to April’s end. Throw in [...]
