just wonderful pictures going on at Anita Rust

alrighty... seems there's a hefty substantial interview with nick piombino over at e-x-c-h-a-n-g-e-v-a-l-u-e-s... hoping to read this gives me some strong motive to finish up this paper processing quickly...

blogger is slowly whittling away my ability to blog... from home... their upgrades are requiring higher versions of explorer than i'm able to load on this old imac... slowly slowly getting squeezed out of the picture... to log in to the control panels i've got to pull some roundabout maneuvers... through the back door... but for how long... i've noticed that a number of the newer blogs i might want to read also do not show up for me in any readable form... some show up with all their text stretched down the right side of the screen... a long mousey tail of tiny single words...

happy birthday edward gorey... whenever it was

Objects of Curiosity by Dan Levin... via the great american pinup

The Gashlycrumb Tinies... tomorrow might be edward gorey's birthday... according to wikipedia and goreyography... or maybe it was yesterday according to the 2005 gorey desk calendar... uncertainties abound

unable to resolve a grammatical puzzle... what part of speech is the word "thinking" in the sentence "I stood thinking and took out my pipe." ... and how does it function... stumped by this one... i'm reminded of the difficulty of naming... anything... that is... knowing the right name of anything... and wondering if it doesn't matter as often as it does matter... that we get the name right... but knowing the function might have some usefulness... and yet in this case... i am excellently able to use the thing without at all being able to name it... or its function... but i will be forever kept from the ranks of those who know the names and functions

Oblique Strategies ... via whisky river

The New York Times > Books > Writing Frankly, Young-Adult Author Pushes Limits...
Ms. Block, 42, writes in a style that she says is influenced by Greek myth, the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez and the modernist poetry of T. S. Eliot and H. D. Her stories abound with sudden transformations, fairies, genies and ghosts. ... and she does it really well... remind me to read some more of francesca lia block

The recruiters even, or perhaps especially, cultivate the young men who are underage, thus the youngsters are primed for when they will become old enough to enlist, usually within a year or so. ... this piece by chris murray reminds me to inquire about my own school's policy on this rotten business...

Faulkner's As I Lay Dying: Form of a Funeral

dada

MiPO 2005

humble ambition... some day i could be the Raymond F. Stoiber of blogpo...

Idealist Teachers Home

God I totally want a smoke. i never know what to say to people about whichever addiction they're trying to dump at the moment... probably because i've never dumped any of mine... but i'm rooting for erin

the most excellent gail giles has a blog... The YA Novel and Me