…especially when dealing with the loss of a co-worker and friend. I’m traveling again this week so I’ll take a short break from posting. Feel free to leave a caption for the youngest and a friend he made yesterday.
Tag: Footnotes
I rarely post RIPs, but I feel compelled to do so with Peter Bergman‘s death…someone that helped me feel I was…well, different. If you have not listened to Don’t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers, I encourage you…nay, I entreat you to do so. For the record, I may be banned from chaperoning field […]
If you’re willing to part with your copy of The Great Gatsby, please consider sending it Aaron Brame’s class in Memphis. They have been using the same copies of the book for the last four years and they could use additional and improved copies. More details can be found at Mr. Brame’s Blog (link is […]
To commemorate HBO’s documentary Namath, I present my 4th grade class picture with me wearing his jersey. What the picture doesn’t reflect is that I was barefoot—the info board covers that detail. I refused to wear shoes to school until 5th grade (and I was lied to in order to get me to wear shoes […]
Awkward silence: an uncomfortable pause in conversation, causing tension or unpleasant feelings. Example Me: “I just found out today one of the guys at work had a prominent role in a TV show a few years ago.” Family: “Really? What show?” Me: “To Catch a Predator” awkward silence
We were finally able to announce that the company I work for is being acquired. Thanks to regulatory rules, the long nights and weekends I worked pre-acquisition are only a warm-up for the fresh hell of the next two months. Instead of a recap for the year I want to look at my recent discoveries […]
November is proving it will be a rather rough month so I’m going to take a break from any scheduled posts. Lots of forthcoming news that will interest no one else, but nothing I can share yet. Hopefully I’ll still find time to read and make the occasional post this month, although I’ve only read […]
He completed his PhD, entitled “To Hear The Lamentation of Their Women: Constructions of Masculinity in Contemporary Zamoran Literature” at UCD and was appointed to the School of English in 2006, after sucessfully decapitating his predecessor during a bloody battle which will long be remembered in legend and song. In 2011/12, he will be teaching […]
Due to a loss in the family, posting will be sporadic this week. I wanted to go into detail about Books 4 and 5 of Arrian’s The Campaigns of Alexander but I may only have time to post on thematic and stylistic points in this section before the book discussion call on September 12. I […]
While reading Joseph Roth’s The Legend of the Holy Drinker I had this song stuck in my head and it won’t go away even after I finished the novella. So I’ll share it in hopes that it will eventually go away. Richard Thompson, Suzanne Vega, and Loudon Wainwright III perform the old Richard & Linda […]
Some flowers for my wife, even if they are from nine years ago. Happy anniversary!
Green: A song for someone aspiring to be an ordinary god may still strike a chord with those of us aspiring to something less. Then again, it may simply be a reminder of having to mow around a grandparent’s fig tree in the heat of an Alabama summer. And wishing I had sampled more of […]
Back home and back to work today after a week away. I avoided internet access while away so I have a lot piled up. I hope to get back to a semi-normal posting schedule next week (depending on work). The only book I read while I was away was Charles Hill’s Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft […]
The Cross Garden of Prattville, AL (photo by Seymour Rosen; picture source) I’ve got nothing today so I thought I would pass on a picture of the late W.C. Rice’s Cross Garden in Prattville, Alabama. I haven’t been by the cross garden in over 20 years but I’ve been following developments through its Facebook page. […]
A reading of the poem that Elizabeth Taylor asked Colin Farrell to read at her funeral…but read by Richard Burton, appropriately enough. The Leaden Echo And The Golden Echo (Maidens’ song from St. Winefred’s Well) Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89) THE LEADEN ECHO How to keep–is there any any, is there none such, nowhere known some, […]
Source (click for larger view) A friend emailed me the link to this cartoon…thought someone out there might like it. (Be sure to move the mouse over the panels, too.)
Every time I take a book with me on a family trip I never get more than a page or two read and this trip is no exception. Not that I’m complaining, given the surroundings.
For anyone wanting to hang onto the football season for another day, here’s an old piece by Geoffrey Colvin on the cultural implications of Super Bowl III. While overstating the impact/symbolism of the game, he may not be that far off. I remember watching part of the game while playing at a friend’s house. I […]