Off the Mark

Saturday I went to Chicago to see Ani DiFranco at The Auditorium Theatre.  She was amazing as usual!  Just her and bassist Todd Sickafoose.  The opener, Andrew Bird, joined them for a few songs near the end.  Andrew plays guitar, violin, glockespiel, and whistles.  He uses a sample pedal to add layers.  Simply amazing performance!  [...]

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Thanks to Nicole  at A Capital Idea I have added another must-have book to my Wish List—"Empires of the Word: a language history of the world" by Nicholas Ostler.

If you like words you should be reading Nicole’s blog.
  It really is far more interesting than its subtitle ("A copy-editing blog covering grammar and newspapers like [...]

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Sure wish I could complain about work here in detail, but not a good decision so I’ll keep it generic.
I’m really starting to feel crappy this evening and it comes from the stress of work again.  We had a major change implemented right at the beginning of the new semester.  It was badly implemented [...]

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’cause, with all the changes you’ve been through
It seems the stranger’s always you
Alone again in some new
Wicked little town
“Wicked Little Town” on Hedwig and the Angry Inch

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ain’t it hard to stumblewhen you’ve got no place to fallin this whole wide worldyes i got no place at all
ain’t it hard to stumblewhen you’ve got no place to fallin this whole wide worldyes i got no place at all
cause i’m a stranger herei’m a stranger everywherei would go home, but honeyi’m a stranger [...]

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A wonderful piece that I wish I could say I wrote.   I can’t, but at least we share the same first name.
Do SUVs Make You Stupid? Pointless, dangerous and vain as ever, land tanks still sell millions. Only one explanation possible

You can see it in the eyes of most every new SUV buyer as they [...]

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Haven’t had a chance to read the whole article or judge its methodology yet, but this article, An Analysis of Entry-Level Librarian Ads Published in American Libraries, 1982-2002 by Sproles and Ratledge should be very interesting to those of us in school and all the recent library school grads complaining about the lack of entry-level [...]

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I told my 1st story today in Storytelling.  I went last which was tough but it went OK.  Here is the story I told:
Truth and Falsehood
Once upon a time, and a time before that, and maybe, maybe even in our own time, Truth and Falsehood met at a crossroads.
After exchanging greetings, Falsehood asked Truth how [...]

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Along with the many other things "our man in Washington" says vs. what he does, how do we put up with things like this?
Blaming Black Men
If President Bush is serious about reaching out to the African-American
community, his time would be more wisely spent addressing countless
inequalities faced by African Americans in the U.S. today, like unequal
access [...]

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Oh how I want to comment on the proposed budget and related issues tied to Bush’s comments and what he is actually doing, but that will have to wait as I have homework.   And besides, I really do not want to give myself that headache tonight.  Lest you think I am speaking metaphorically, I am [...]

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