Off the Mark

adamantly heedless was she
of warning given on a moon full night
venturing forth shall I be
faerie-cursed changeling, forest bound tight
enraged he was when lily she picked
the stars they blazed in all their might
passion engulfed the simple maid
burning like an ember bright
the sun across the sky was splayed
“your essence, i feel it right
the world it whispers to [...]

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the man sat gazing
awed by the vast firmament
night after endless night
terrified, alone
years rolled by
friends came
friends went
his children grew
and the world changed around him
the stars, they were too many
one May evening in the endless procession of months
in an Alley
the man and a friend sat and talked
unknown to the man
something stirred in the heavens
the night sky had [...]

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Drinking with the Troops
From a local blog, Urbanagora, comes “Drinks with a Soldier.” I just love how some jackass commentor tries to hide behind the shield of anonymity and call the post author a liar. Certainly there are all sorts of views on this war, including those of the troops fighting it.
Perhaps if you ever [...]

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Welcome new readers
On the 14th of Jan, Blake posted a story at LISNews, The LINews 10 Blogs To Read in 2008. My lowly little blog was included in that list. I have at least 29 new readers in Bloglines, which means, perhaps, 80-120 total new readers since then. Of course, the fact that the list [...]

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Truthfully, I will not be addressing that directly as such. Much more oblique will be my comments.
But first some initial resources:

Martin Luther King Day at Wikipedia
High as the Listening Skies, Loud as the Rolling Sea at Ramblings by Laura Crossett.
Search Engines Commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day via Resource Shelf.

Five years ago today—well, it was [...]

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This past Wednesday, 26 Sep 2007, was the Fall 2007 Phineas L. Windsor Lecture at GSLIS.
Betty Sue Flowers, Director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum was the lecturer.
I must say I was kind of ambivalent about this lecture but I ended up truly enjoying it. I have, I believe, attended all of the [...]

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[Disclaimer: I do not mean to offend anyone's personal views. My only aim here is to share a love of word play with others who may also appreciate it.]
Earlier this week I did the copy cataloging to enter this book into our library. I found the juxtaposition of the the title and the subject heading [...]

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Sunday, 11 Feb
Henricus Cornelius Agrippa. Declamation on the nobility and preeminence of the female sex. Translated and edited by Albert Rabil, Jr. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe series. Read pp. 13-65.
The resemblance [of sons to mothers] is often evident in their physical appearance but it is always present in their character: if the [...]

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If you are a Flickr contact of mine, you might know that I have lately been scanning some photos (just a few, all told) from my photo albums. This has been, and is, odd for various reasons.
While the photo albums are “in order” (chronological), they aren’t perfect. For one thing, I’d often remove [...]

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