Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 10th, 2009 No Comments »
For me, 11pm produces little but foolhardy arguments in which I sputter ill-advised exit lines (”You do know logic is construct?”). If I have to stay awake, sleepy Internet surfing produces more promising results:
Radio For Your Every Mood
Full-disclosure: Yale’s 2006 review of its English graduate program
Discover GenXer Hipdom and its Looming Doom
Reasons to Like/Dislike Writing [...]
Posted in American Literature, Uncategorized on Jan 20th, 2009 No Comments »
Four occasional poems have graced American inaugurations. This short canon begs many shrewd observations, so I urge you to take a moment to read the poems in succession if you’ve never done so. (To make that task easier, I tried to find and post accurate versions below.) While the poems’ commissioners, notably among [...]
Posted in Marginalia, Pop Culture, Uncategorized on Jan 13th, 2009 No Comments »
To some, marginalia is heresy. Every time I touch my pencil to a margin I hear Patrick Altick retching, although the well-hidden and oft-rebuffed historian within me vehemently disagrees with the beau idéal.
How many times have you been annoyed by the marginalia left by some idiot–huge and redoubled exclamation points, uncomplimentary expressions (”absurd,” “oh, come [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 8th, 2009 1 Comment »
My original intent was to whet a few appetites for the fiction of 2009. My delight mounted when I, archetypal list addict, latched hold of this (finally!) legitimate excuse to publish a link-happy blogosphere list. Then I discovered the chasm between the spirit of British and American publishing. Exit list, stage right.
As it turns out, [...]
Posted in Latino/a Literature & Culture, Pop Culture, Uncategorized on Jan 5th, 2009 No Comments »
Today is Víspera de Reyes, the eve of Three King’s Day. If you are placing a shoebox full of cabbage beneath your bed tonight, chances are strong that you’re Puerto Rican (or Boricua).
Few celebrate the Christmas holidays as extensively as the Boricuas, whose traditions closely intertwine with those of the Catholic Church. Boricua Christmas [...]
