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—Agrado, All About My Mother (Almodóvar) Watch me go from “nerd fabulous” to “nerd proper” in five seconds: Today I had the pleasure of discovering yet another Buffy devotee in my life. We were sitting at lunch and she mentioned her plans to go see Serenity this weekend. When I was in college, when we…
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The number of years ago Matthew Shepard was murdered on October 12. Seven years ago, I was walking through the lobby of the residence hall in which I was working as a Resident Assistant when I heard on the television that a young man had been found lashed to a fence post in Wyoming and…
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National Book Award Finalists for poetry: John Ashbery, Where Shall I Wander (Ecco) Frank Bidart, Star Dust: Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Brendan Galvin, Habitat: New and Selected Poems, 1965-2005 (Louisiana State University Press) W.S. Merwin, Migration: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press) Vern Rutsala, The Moment’s Equation (Ashland Poetry Press)
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So, my brain hasn’t been picking up poetry waves for the past several days (a week?) if you haven’t noticed by the flurry of incidental posts and song lyrics. I’m resting. I’m going to go back into the new book in a while. I’m definitely done generating new work for a bit. I need to…
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I opened my eyes While you were kissing me once, more than once,And you looked as sincere as a dog. Just as sincere as a dog does, When it’s the food on your lips with which it’s in love. —Fiona Apple, “Parting Gift”
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Fun tidbit: The subconscious mind does not recognize negation. When engaged in activities that make us nervous, we oftentimes will rally ourselves by identifying our feared outcome and working against it. For example, someone playing golf might think, “Okay, don’t miss the ball. Don’t miss the ball.” What the subconscious mind hears: “Miss the ball.”…
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