Sunday, December 16, 2007
Diane Middlebrook - Poet & biographer dies of cancer
Diane Middlebrook - perhaps best known for her book, Anne Sexton- a biography, died this weekend of cancer. Middlebrook was 68 and had taught in the English department at Stanford. She is also the author of Her Husband: Hughes and Plath, a Marriage a 2003 best selling biography.
Friday, December 14, 2007
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Journal smatterings
- perception grows elongated/hangs around crowds/making the kinds of impressions/teenagers do to one another/looking to make points/with the opposite sex
- Intonation offered up for what?/ears- or simply a regurgitation
- nights of elastic boredom/ripple with salty waves/of complacency we suck on/there is a satisfying feeling /like a dog gets licking your face
- you showered the long day away/I gave you a bath robe/the belt hung limp
Gamers will 'w00t' over word of the year - Internet- msnbc.com
Gamers will 'w00t' over word of the year - Internet- msnbc.com: " Expect cheers among hardcore online game enthusiasts when they learn Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year. Or, more accurately, expect them to 'w00t.' 'W00t,' a hybrid of letters and numbers used by gamers as an exclamation of happiness, topped all other terms in the Springfield dictionary publisher's online poll for the word that best sums up 2007."
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