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Nick Drake (Pink Moon)
Little Boxes by Malvina Reynolds
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Iron and Wine (The Sea & the Rhythm)
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Buffy (season one)
Archive for January, 2009
Posted in Movies Music Media, Teaching on 27 January 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cicada
Posted in Poetry on 26 January 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The cicada buries itself, alive.
Not for a long weekend,
not for the weeks of the moth’s chrysalis
but for many months, months that turn to years
(as months have a habit of doing).
Do they lie awake? Consciously marking
the days of their intuitional prisons?
Are there little buzzing inspirational cicadas,
telling their neighbors to ’seize the day’? To muster
their strength and [...]
Canaries in a Coal Mine
Posted in Aesthetics, Movies Music Media on 25 January 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’m not a big fan of rap, but after “The Best of Sinatra” I needed something a little jarring for my ride home. Right next to Frank was Eminem. And so I listened, very intently, to the first song, “White America.”
There is very little subtlety to his soapbox as he addresses the issues of censorship [...]
Discussing the Now; Some disorderly thoughts from today
Posted in Politics, Teaching on 20 January 2009 | 1 Comment »
I scratched the first hour of school this morning and we sprawled on the floor in the middle of the classroom, watching the inauguration.
I was intent. My students were as intent as children are …
“That didn’t sound like a prayer, Ms. Card.”
“What is she wearing on her head?!?”
“Why do they use such big words?”
But once [...]
June Cleaver
Posted in Movies Music Media, Personal, Philosophy and Theology on 20 January 2009 | 4 Comments »
There is something obsession-creating about June Cleaver.
I’ve never seen an episode of “Leave it to Beaver” (that I can recollect), but I know Beaver’s mother. She epitomized the 1950’s housewife; the paragon of wifedom and motherhood. The woman who kept her house and her temper and did it all in heels and pearls.
Supposedly every man’s [...]
What does this bode?
Posted in Literary, Personal on 18 January 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Marry, peace it bodes, and love, and quiet life,
An awful rule, and right supremacy;
And, to be short, what not that’s sweet and happy.
These lines of Petruchio from Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew bother, annoy, and fascinate me. Always have. They are posted here in honor of M. Cobb’s recent marriage (several years ago she [...]
the faith of Everyman
Posted in Literary, Philosophy and Theology, Teaching on 15 January 2009 | Leave a Comment »
… send me grace to bewail my sins and to study the salvation of my soul; and grant me the grace of true penitence, confession, and satisfaction, that I may preform them in this present life, through the benign grace of Him that is King of kings and Priest over all priests, who bought us [...]
Bedding Battles
Posted in Personal on 12 January 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Every night, my husband and I wrestle for dominion in bed; see who comes out on top.
Subconsciously, that is.
My 6′2″ hubby claims I take up all the space; I-of-the-Perpetually-Low-Blood-Temperature believe that he steals all the covers. All we have is the evidence in the morning, when he’s bundled up cozy on the northern-most edge of [...]
MBA-humbug.
Posted in Business, Personal on 10 January 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’m sitting in the guest room which is currently doubling as my study on a beautiful Saturday in January, banging my head into a Corporate Financing Textbook, trying to create balance sheets without inventory and income statements without depreciation. I came online to Google “What are the differences between accounting profit and cash flow?” and [...]
CSET-ing
Posted in Personal, Teaching on 10 January 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Remind me to vent about multiple choice literary exams sometime.
*Amazing, beautiful, complex passage from a literary work*
Does this mean A, B, C, or D? Choose one answer.
?!?$>@!!?!!
