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Opens door, turns on light
Haven't been here for awhile! Became overwhelmed by the thought of reading, responding to, and writing long thoughtful posts. Lazy, lazy Lizzie.
Hope you all are well. I am doing all right. Yeah. So. G'night. -
Dueling Earworms
All day long these two poems have been duking it out in my head. Each has three verses, but they could not possibly be more different. First, the downer.
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AUTUMN
There is wind where the rose was ( Read more... ) -
Aarggh! Formatting!
My last post--the formatting anyway--was a thing of beauty until I cut and pasted it into the LJ post window. I just can't get on with the way LJ is set up now, even though I'm at least somewhat conversant with HTML. I will try to fix it later.
Damn it, I can't even get the LJ cut to work! Sorry for the length.
Right now I am going for a biopsy ( Read more... ) -
Hail to the Chief!
(UPDATE and Correction: Ann Althouse is a law prof at Univ of Wisconsin at Madison, not Michigan at Ann Arbor. Told you I was discombobulated!)
Well, my guy and gal didn’t win last night.
John McCain is a hero, and I adore Sarah Palin (you can take the girl-me-out of the Red State, but you can’t take the Red State out of the girl!), about whom I am ( Read more... ) -
The Archaeologist of the Future
Five thousand years have fled, let us suppose ( Read more... ) -
When all else fails, do some cat-blogging!
This has been a more intense and stressful week than I anticipated. Feeling better today, though. Please keep me and mine, and the entire world, in your prayers, and I will do the same for you.
Since I did a post on Strider the other day, I thought I'd give my other lovely boy some equal time.
Heeeeeeeere's Michael!!
(That arm belongs to my friend ( Read more... ) -
A.S. Byatt, J.K. Rowling, D.W. Jones
Back in 2003, when Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was published, the writer A.S. Byatt put up a snarky essay in the New York Times condemning JKR and her work. I have not been able to find the entire essay online, but you get the idea:
(Quote) According to Byatt: "Ms Rowling's magic world has no place for the numinous. It is written for people ( Read more... )
