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The Real January 20, 2009 Post
In the previous post, I sort of blew off the significance of the day as if I didn’t take it seriously. It’s not a joke. I’m trying real hard not to get too puffed up and all “Gee aren’t we Americans wonderful?!?” (As a column in today’s paper said, we don’t even know yet whether [...]
Everyday Heroes
Like nearly everyone seems to be, I’m caught up in what might be called Onauguration Fever. And — coincidence? you be the judge! — Warner Brothers and Fox recently settled their legal tussling over the upcoming Watchmen film, allowing its release as scheduled on March 6. Under the circumstances, the time seems right to celebrate [...]
Happy Birthday, Mr. Poe
Today would’ve been your 200th birthday. Hard to imagine, eh, especially for someone with such a predilection for death at a young age? For those who, like me, have something of a perhaps unhealthy attraction (and is there any other kind?) to EAP’s works, I heartily recommend two sources: Daniel Hoffman’s Poe Poe Poe Poe [...]
No Saturday Post
We lost a great cat today. (Bye, Dilly — we’ll see you later!)
Creation and Completion
From whiskey river: Making Poetry “You have to inhabit poetry if you want to make it.” And what’s “to inhabit?” To be in the habit of, to wear words, sitting in the plainest light, in the silk of morning, in the shoe of night; a feeling bare and frondish in surprising air; familiar . . [...]
Placeholder Post: Update on Caboodle Ranch
Those of you who read the “Extreme Ailurophilia” post of last week and worried about the long-term fate of Caboodle Ranch’s hundreds of cats might find comfort in two items: Nanette, of Pet Palaces in North Carolina, offered a couple of reassuring comments to help explain why some of the worry is misplaced. She comes [...]
Paying Attention to Meaning
I wanted to try something… something different for our writing workshop back then. Not something funny (or was it?). Not something in the psychological horror line. Not a genre piece, not an obviously literary piece. For that matter, none of the things that would pop into workshoppers’ heads when they sat down to read it [...]
The Culprit
I couldn’t wait for the plumber to arrive. Just for him, I’d cleaned out the cabinet under the kitchen sink, and put a bucket under the trap. I’d emptied the (dirty) dishwasher. I’d spread a towel on the floor, thinking that his knees — even more than mine — might appreciate the cushion. I’d left [...]
“Defy the Languid Moment”
There are lots of traditions of “how to grow old” in less than pleasant ways: There’s the cantankerous strong-willed (and occasionally frolicsome) oldster. In my mind, the template for this tradition was Twin Peaks Mayor Dwayne Milford, as shown in this scene (“I don’t wanna talk. I wanna shoot!”): (See what followed this scene by [...]
Flange: A Gargoyle Looks at Xmas (Part 2)
(written by human John’s co-blogger gargoyle Flj, but please to call me Flange, how pronounced anyway) (edited by John for clarity and, um, readability) You already read Part 1 of this series, yes? If not, it here. There you learned things about gargoylish Xmas decorations and such. (Ed. note: Asides in a couple of subsequent [...]
