Down with Harry Potter
Thursday, May 29th, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | 2 Comments »Since I've pissed off several friends already by forwarding this critique of Harry Potter, it's time to troll it up on the blog. I hereby admit that I feel nothing but revulsion for Harry Potter and everything he stands for. ...
A Brief Summary of Ian McEwan’s Saturday
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »Begin day. Pre-day. Brain Surgeon awakes suddenly "some hours before dawn." Opens window on London square from fancy big apartment. Condescending observation of square peons. Sees a distressed plane and its trail of fire cross the sky to an unknown ...
Poetry Friday: Hungover a Line (a sonnet)
Friday, May 23rd, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »My latest on wellreadchild: Ms. Tullo asked me to write a sonnet. So I did. Hungover a Line by Wes Hungover a line, to dry the crime I wring out little droplets of regret Last night dissolves below me, in the brine Today flies upward with my ...
When “Experience” is Conformity, and “Toughness” Insecurity
Monday, May 12th, 2008 Posted in Hillary, Obama | No Comments »When I talk to friends who are worried about an Obama candidacy and possible administration, I hear the following: Americans will not elect a black man Obama is inexperienced and soft The optimism of Obama and his supporters seems dangerously naive Obama is simply ...
The Viability of Obama, Part II — The Meaning of Toughness
Saturday, May 10th, 2008 Posted in Hillary, Obama | 2 Comments »A year ago I wrote a post called The Viability of Obama, in response to to friends who thought that the United States was not ready to elect a black president (and long before Obama was thought of as anything ...
We Hard Working, White, Statistical Falsehoods (Obama’s Demographic Problem: The Elderly, not Whites)
Friday, May 9th, 2008 Posted in Obama | No Comments »Clinton: I, but not Barack Obama, have the support of working, hard-working Americans, White Americans Some ... call you swing voters, I call you Americans (Where "hard-working" means uneducated enough to have voted for Bush twice). The common interpretation among pundits is that it ...
Poetry Friday Challenge: The Aubade
Friday, May 9th, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »Today's WellReadChild post: We've done the aubade, and Wilbur, so I thought I'd combine them and turn it into a challenge. In Richard Wilbur's "Late Aubade," the morning departure of a lover has already been staved off. It's just ...
