Archive for February, 2007
Vassar Miller’s ‘Christmas Mourning’
Vassar Miller’s “Christmas Mourning”
On Christmas Day I weep
Good Friday to rejoice.
I watch the child asleep.
Does He half dream the choice
The Man must make and keep?
At Christmastime I sigh
For my Good Friday Hope.
Outflung the Child’s arms lie
To span in their brief scope
The death the Man must die.
Come Christmastide I groan
To hear Good Friday’s pealing.
The Man, racked […]
Life on a Mag Crew, Story Worthy of Dickens
Two days after graduating from high school last June, Jonathan Pope left his home in Miamisburg, Ohio, to join a traveling magazine sales crew, thinking he would get to “talk to people, party at night and see the country.”
Over the next six months, he and about 20 other crew members crossed 10 states, peddling subscriptions […]
‘They Didn’t Study’ hilarious student answers to exam questions
ESPN: Hoops of Nazareth
ESPN has a great in-depth article on Hoops of Nazareth. It’s a great story, as much about the town as girls hoops. Worth the read.
Justice for All? Artists Reflect on the Death Penalty
The death penalty art show will be exhibited in Houston at M2 from February 10 - 18, 2007 with an opening night reception at 7 PM on the 10th. The gallery is located at 325 West 19th Street in Houston (Map). There will be a gallery talk Friday, Feb 16, at 7 PM with Mary […]
Cultural Malthusianism
In the New Yorker recently - The Human Sound
It is quite possible that when the century is over, live entertainment—real people singing, acting, dancing, playing, reciting, and clowning in front of real people—will have disappeared in this country or become an anachronism. (The very existence of the phrase “live entertainment” is ominous; the term would […]
There are three of me
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Funny, I know who the other two are too. I <3 the internets.
Remembering Molly
The best tribute I could think of -
“If Texas were a sane place, it wouldn’t be nearly as much fun”
“The first rule of holes: When you’re in one, stop digging”
“Everyone knows the man has no clue, but no one there has the courage to say it. I mean, good gawd, the man is as […]