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Tag Archives: Poetry

Rat! Torturing my brain!

10-Jul-08

Last night, the second we’ve spent at the rental next door (we have until mid-month to give up the keys to this one), I had a fairly unnerving experience. I was cold, and my extra-warm comforter that has seen me through more than a decade of love and trauma was in the dryer. Probably, I’d [...]

Variations on a theme of independence

05-Jul-08

Yesterday, the ever snarkful (& smart, so, what - can I now invent ’smarkful’ in addition to ’snarkful,’ also not an actual word?) Simon Goetz offered the following, um, pearl of wisdom with regard to incipient Fourth of July celebrations:
Guys are prematurely shooting their colorful loads of Freedom all over the sky’s face. It’s scary [...]

“Mistakes Were Made”: On deception, in the absence of malice.

10-May-08

This morning I’m listening for a second time to a podcast I’d downloaded weeks ago, and hadn’t gotten around to playing the first time around until just yesterday. This is the broadcast for the habitually brilliant This American Life’s episode #354, “Mistakes Were Made,” which originally aired on April 18th of this year. You can [...]