habitually probing generalist

English after the fall: from literature to textuality Robert Scholes; University of Iowa Press 2011 WorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder Disclaimer: I received an uncorrected proof copy of this book as part of the Library Thing Early Reviewer Program. I read this book from 23 Nov – 13 Dec 2011 and the bottom line is that I enjoyed [...]

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Zevon, W. (2004). ‘Enjoy Every Sandwich‘: the Songs of Warren Zevon. New York, NY: Artemis Records, Several weeks ago, for some reason I can’t remember due to Jackson Browne and David Lindley playing some Warren Zevon songs at the concert, I played some Zevon for Sara. As she started asking me about him we consulted [...]

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Last Friday evening Sara and I attended a showcase of local singer/songwriters at the Meet Virginia coffee house in downtown Sioux City.  We thought it would be great to get exposed to some of the local musicians in our new home. The show was scheduled to start at 8 PM so we arrived at 7:20 [...]

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[This post title is, for me, multi-meta in that it refers to several things.] It has been a long time since I’ve been here. Part of me is sad about this fact and part of me thinks that is just fine. A lot has happened since I last wrote here: I quit my job as [...]

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He’s incommunicado No comment to make He’s saying nothing at all Yeah but in the communique You know he’s gonna come clean … [Communique - Dire Straits] Seems I don’t have much to say anymore. We’ve all read of the death of blogging. The move to Friendfeed and Twitter. XYZ. None of those are entirely [...]

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when i look deep in your eyes, i swear i can see your soul out of sight, your deep dark secrets ebb and flow like the tide but all that i see are infinite spectrums of possibility when i look deep in your eyes, i swear i can reach your soul i love the infinite [...]

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I went back through my posts of the last two months and there isn’t much explicit mention of the best distraction a boy could ask for. I think the first (and one of 2, maybe 3) explicit reference is in the post “Living room talk.” There are certainly several other references that were mostly for [...]

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2 views on the slipperiness of words: Words are clumsy tools. And it is very easy to cut one’s fingers with them, and they need the closest attention in handling; but they are the only tools we have, and the imagination itself cannot work without them. (Frankfurter 1947: 546) as quoted in Harris, R., & [...]

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I got a quick IM from a friend the other night wondering how I was doing as I have been quiet lately. Yes. Yes I have. There are a lot of reasons for this. Some of it is lack of time to do all the things I’d like to. There are probably other reasons, too, [...]

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Atlanta’s a distant memory Montgomery a recent blur and Tulsa burns on the desert floor like a signal fire I got Willie on the radio a dozen things on my mind and number one is fleshing out these dreams of mine Cowboy Junkies — 200 More Miles A little over a week ago I wrote [...]

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