Tomorrow is easy, but today is uncharted,
Desolate, reluctant as any landscape
To yield what are laws of perspective
After all only to the painter’s deep
Mistrust, a weak instrument though
Necessary. Of course some things
Are possible, it knows, but it doesn’t know
Which ones. Some day we will try
To do as many things as are possible
And perhaps we shall succeed [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Appropriate Cynicism?
Posted in Literary, Poetry on 30 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
How are you? (Part Two)
Posted in Overheard, Personal, tagged dissatisfactory salutations on 30 October 2008 | 3 Comments »
“Listen to Americans greet each other. At a party close your eyes and concentrate carefully on the tones of voice. ‘ How are you?’ ‘Fine…fine…fine.’ The question and answer are always optimistic, always affirmative. They are, in fact, preliminary social reminders that we are permitted to deal with one another only in terms of an [...]
Christmas Wedding
Posted in Movies Music Media, Overheard, Personal, tagged Christmas Wedding Carols, silly songs on 27 October 2008 | 1 Comment »
So, in honor of my wedding on December 20th, Michael’s and my marriage counselor starting singing, “It’s beginning to look a lot like Marriage…”
To which I responded: “I’m dreaming of a white Weddding…” and at the end, he suggested we add “Frosty the Groomsman” to our repetoire.
If you can think of catchy wedding-spoofed Christmas carols, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 23 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My heart in hiding
Stirred for a bird,
Every morning I arise, and pray that I will know what words to utter when I open my mouth. Every afternoon, after waving to the last departing student, I sigh, knowing that I said twice as much as I should have, and didn’t speak when I could have.
Would that [...]
Could you post already?
Posted in Personal on 21 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Beck, I think you should post something. I’m sick of seeing my cookie post and I don’t have time to post anything substantial.
Except one thing: When Michael and I registered, we did pretty good at avoiding redundancies, except for one item. We requested blenders from all three stores. It seems that appliance is a necessity for [...]
C is for Cookie, that’s good enough for me
Posted in Food and Wine, Personal, tagged The world is ending with an implosion of pink and white on 16 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mother’s cookie company closes amid bankruptcy
October 10, 2008
OAKLAND, Calif.-Mother’s Cookies has closed its doors for good.
Its Connecticut-based parent company filed for bankruptcy protection this week. Workers at its baking and distribution plants in Ohio and Canada were informed that operations would cease immediately.
Mother’s operated in Oakland for 92 years, but left the city in 2006 [...]
footfalls echo in the memory
Posted in Literary, Overheard, Poetry, tagged faulkner, past, story on 12 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
And as he talked about those old times and those dead and vanished men of another race from either that the know knew, gradually to the boy those old times would cease to be old times and would become a part of the boy’s present, not only as if they had happened yesterday but as [...]
Hitler, Trollope
Posted in Literary, Overheard on 12 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Western European romance gave us Hitler, the novels of Trollope, and the American musical.
David Mamet [Three Uses of the Knife]
Overheard at Work
Posted in Overheard, tagged Verbal typos on 9 October 2008 | 2 Comments »
CSC: “What do you think about ‘Napal’ as a name for our new conference room?”
B: “Didn’t a nuclear bomb go off there?”
CSC: “No, that’s napalm.”
Somnolent Pandemic
Posted in Uncategorized on 9 October 2008 | 1 Comment »
I just went onto Facebook and 3 out of the top 5 of my friends who had “Recently Updated” their status, mention sleep. One: “would like to sleeeeep.” Another: “wishes he could take a nap, and it’s only 7:15 am.” A third: “can’t sleep.”
Now, I realize Facebook is not a definitive statician, but it’s a [...]
