Month: April 2007
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Laura Bush wants you to know…
…that no one is suffering over the war in Iraq more than she and the president. Tell that to the military troops and the civilians who are DYING over there, Laura, not to mention each and every one of their families and all of their friends. I’ve never seen a president and first lady, nor…
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Who’s a zombie? I am, I am
I am sick with allergies that started a head cold that eventually turned into full-blown achy, moaning, zombiefied foot-dragging slouching through the apartment for the past two days. This made me sicker: “What’s most troubling about Senator Reid’s comments yesterday is his defeatism,” Mr. Cheney said. “It is cynical to declare that the war is…
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Super powers
This made me laugh today. More, please. Also, apparently Bill Clinton thinks Al Gore may run for president again. I wonder if he’s guessing or knows something we don’t know.
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One more dimension
I looked on the Random House page for One for Sorrow today. They have the number of pages listed for it now: 336 pages. I want to squeal like a little kid for some reason over page numbers, probably because it adds yet another dimension to the book that makes it feel real. I could also…
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Re-centering
I don’t want to write about what my feelings are surrounding the incident at Virginia Tech. My students and I talked about it in class today, and in that sort of setting, one on one, everyone in a circle, looking at each other and trying to recognize each other’s humanity as best we can, and…
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Weight
I feel like I’m wading through a fog today. Between the already low energy phase I’ve been in for the past few days, and then what happened down at Virgina Tech, and then finding out, well, lots of other sad news from friends, I’m not really running on all cylinders. Everyday, lately, it feels harder…
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The Stage is back, see you there…
The STAGE. Come to it
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A question
I’ve been thinking a lot about blogs and online journals recently. To be honest, not in any consideration of what I’m doing with my own so much as just being very interested in them as a form or mode. I’m interested in knowing what other people think about them. What are they for? What are…
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Kurt Vonnegut Dies at 84
I’ll miss having him around. His books have meant a lot to me at various times in my life. He can make me laugh at suffering more easily than any other author I’ve read. New York Times article Really excellent audio interview at Bookworm
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Trochu
Last week I got this really cool Czech anthology called “Trochu”. It’s edited by Martin Sust. Martin published a Czech translation of “The Language of Moths” in it, along with some other really really cool stories by the likes of Hal Duncan, Jeff Ford, Theodora Gossonova, Ellen Klagesova, Tim Pratt, Alan Deniro, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Paul Melko,…