subscribeAug 18, 2008
Everything I know about love and its necessities / I learned in that one moment / when I found myself / thrusting my little burning red backside like a baboon / at a man who no longer cherished me. — Anne Carson
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newsblog: writing and arts
- thom donovan’s ‘a wildness’
September 6, 2010 | 2:05 pmThe dark will be a ground we recover in the night / Illegitimate, turning to those other bodies http://bit.ly/aJbaYW
- ca conrad’s #46 your mina loy portal
September 6, 2010 | 1:20 pmNow carry the stone for a week, taking notes while reading the poems of Mina Loy. For nearly a century her poems have been waiting to be used as keys for the map. http://bit.ly/9eOVsZ
- eric larsen’s ‘the recluse and his lightning’
September 4, 2010 | 7:17 pmi took the hose to fill each hole i dug / and drove a Woolworth’s remote control truck / in and out of the water http://bit.ly/bevHjl
- kristen mchenry’s ‘the adulterer’
September 4, 2010 | 7:10 pmGod, my symptoms / are so garish: this slick / pawing, clinging dead-drunk fucking / gulping our shame. http://bit.ly/dcwhCO
- eric larsen’s ‘autumn insulin’ (draft)
July 16, 2010 | 9:09 amonly cremation will do in this altitude / a plastic box of ashes spread white, not always granular / coarser bone shards, slivers of teeth http://bit.ly/djCKNR
- caconrad’s ‘#44 aids snow family’
July 8, 2010 | 7:55 pmIn January gather snow, this is intimate this calling to honor the shock of being alive. http://bit.ly/aXdMUX
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newsblog: issues and oddities
- new diagnostic tool lights up brains impaired by alzheimer’s
June 24, 2010 | 9:07 amDye could enable Alzheimer’s diagnosis and evaluation of treatment efficacy. http://nyti.ms/cknbuq
- reporters, photographers blocked from full coverage of bp spill
June 10, 2010 | 8:54 am“Journalists struggling to document the impact of the oil rig explosion have repeatedly found themselves turned away from public areas affected by the spill, and not only by BP and its contractors, but by local law enforcement, the Coast Guard and government officials.” http://nyti.ms/cxG2J5
- what john francis learned by not driving, not speaking
June 4, 2010 | 10:46 pmTry not driving for 22 years. And not speaking. John Francis did it. http://bit.ly/cCpUF8
- what social media can teach us and how we can teach social media
June 1, 2010 | 3:38 pmWill Richardson. Social media. Personal learning networks. Connectedness literacies. The classroom. http://bit.ly/anDEIb
- it’s not just on the surface
May 29, 2010 | 11:48 amUndersea plumes are a feature of the BP oil spill. http://nyti.ms/cfRMUP
- free time in the post-tv era
May 25, 2010 | 3:41 pmCognitive surplus, social networks and how we spend our spare time. http://bit.ly/d6TGte
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i can’t be bought
It’s been done! Fred Dagg aka John Clark, a New Zealand comedian, wrote a wonderful song in tribute to gumboots or wellies as the Brits call them.
This contest is not half as silly as the one I saw advertised in the UK last year, where the theme was “Better Customer service in Shropshire”
Catherine, I remember that contest! Didn’t you enter it, or did I Just goad you to enter it?
I’m not sure where my earlier comment went but I posted this link:
http://folksong.org.nz/gumboot/index.html
Apparently John clarke modified a song by Billy Connolly which can also be found on the internet.
I think you did suggest I entered that contest but by the time I mentioned it on my blog we had returned to NZ and it had been over for a couple of weeks. Besides, “better customer service in Shropshire” doesn’t really inspire me poetically
It doesn’t???
No… who’d a thought it?
Heh.