From this morning's article, entitled, "McCain takes aim at Obama's character":

Kathie Steigerwald, a Dearborn, Mich. businesswoman who said she voted for Hillary Clinton but now plans to support McCain, offered an especially succinct recital of a narrative on which other interviewees offered numerous variations ( Read more... )

In conservative political discourse, it is now taken for granted that John McCain is a "war hero" and that "war heroes" make good presidents; in this respect, therefore, McCain is preferable to his Democratic challenger. (One wonders how the Right managed to lose sight of this self-evident truth when decorated Vietnam veteran John Kerry was ( Read more... )

So what have I been doing with my life, you ask?

Not bloody much. But it's been more than two months, so I thought I should update. Danaan is still alive, which I consider a minor victory as I've been home with her all day during the week. I've been amusing myself with Guild Wars, to the point of writing much-neglected fan fiction on one of the ( Read more... )

I read in Yahoo! News this morning that Paris Hilton has decided she'll no longer "act dumb."

Well, good. So that's all settled.

I finally watched A Scanner Darkly the other day. (By the other day, I mean maybe a month ago; I sit on things like an ostrich hen.) I was expecting it to be the usual experience in which Keanu Reeves does his pretty ( Read more... )

Today I’m thirty-five. I suppose that I’ve lived about half of my life ( Read more... )

For the second time in my life, I have tried and failed to read Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer. Seldom have I been so well-disposed towards a book and yet so thoroughly unable to stomach it. I suspect, without being able to prove, that the book is unctuous in the manner of the worst sort of confessional writing. The author craves, even demands ( Read more... )

I've never read the book upon which this movie is based, but I'm intrigued by the audience participation aspect of the meme. Have a look behind the cut and see if you think that this animal thingie is appropriate for me.

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I read that you've likened yourself to Jesus Christ. Doesn't everyone ( Read more... )

In Poe’s poem “To Helen,” we find the following verses:

On desperate seas long wont to roam,
Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,
Thy Naiad airs have brought me home
To the glory that was Greece
And the grandeur that was Rome.

Editors interpret the phrase “hyacinth hair” differently. R. S. Gwynn, in Poetry: An Anthology, explains that Helen’s ( Read more... )

In his book on Ben Jonson, Algernon Charles Swinburne opines that the former's celebrated Cary-Morrison Ode-- in which Jonson mourns the death of Henry Morison and celebrates his former friendship with the poem's addressee, Lucius Cary-- is not "even a tolerably good" poem, and distinguishes one stanza in particular as "eccentrically execrable." ( Read more... )