Lovely stuff. And a little love for one of my favorite poets, Kenneth Rexroth, as well.

Neil Fisher in The Times didn't didn't seem to like MTT and the SFS, who are on their fall European tour, very much, at least for one night. Matthew Rye of The Telegraph was more impressed ( Read more... )

A splendid Jon Carroll column, though that's nothing unusual, and a plug for one of my favorite magazines. Check out the Gonnerman piece... you'd think Titicut Follies had never been released.

This should be interestingGetting some work done this Friday morning, and trying not to think about those things about which I can't do anything. More ( Read more... )

Lovely news. Let's hope the Iowa Supreme Court decides to uphold the lower court's decision. That piece is an AP summary of affairs; an even better article on the subject can be found here, and is in fact one of the best pieces of legal journalism I have seen in some time; I recommend it highly. I live in California, of course, and our Supreme ( Read more... )

I was looking at this and was inspired by thinking about our greatest attempt at international cooperation. It comes from the official UN site:

Thus it was that in the Opera House at San Francisco on June 25 [1945], the delegates met in full session for the last meeting. Lord Halifax presided and put the final draft of the Charter to the meeting ( Read more... )

Not quite the exalted sort of afternoon the Moody Blues celebrated, but not a bad one nevertheless. Financial aid forms... yay! It's been a while since I've had to fill anything like these out, but since I certainly won't be able to pay the full cost of a semester's tuition at my school, I'm doing the necessary paperwork ( Read more... )

Sometimes you don't realize that your writing reflects a passage that you've been thinking about for days until you commit a few paragraphs to paper and read them over again. I've been reflecting upon Wallace Stevens' work a lot lately, and you may remember this passage from "Sunday Morning" in Harmonium:

She says, "I am content when wakened ( Read more... )

I have a habit of posting during bereft moments, which is perhaps understandable, I think, since from time to time a correspondent goes away and writing helps me mourn. I think you write for the larger audience that you would like to understand you, though, and while that is necessarily a scattershot affair it reminds you of how many people still ( Read more... )

I usually don't feel that ashamed of the infrequency of my LiveJournal posts; after all, they're intended primarily for my circle of close and developing friends, who generally hear about the important things taking place in my life long before I mention them here. I felt a little guilty, though, after attending a party this evening given by a few ( Read more... )

1:31 p.m. here on the West Coast of the Land of the Free, or Great Satan, or what you will, and La Bonne Soupe beckons for lunch. The braised pork and sausage sandwiches are extraordinary; crack for Francophiles and Chowhound types. Now if we could just get owner Daniel Pont to put in some news racks, Cafe de la Presse-style, I'd have daily one- ( Read more... )

In the "say-it-ain't so, Lisa" department, this from Ms. de Moraes' chat in The Washington Post on Friday:

Turner Classic Movies: What do you mean that Time Warner is hellbent on destroying TCM? I love this channel. What are they going to do to it?

Lisa de Moraes: They are working on their first original series. In one of them, each week a " ( Read more... )