I am totally guilty of spreading around the OMGLookIt’sAMcDonaldsHamburgerThatWon’tDie meme, but I came across a really great article today about why observation is not science: Steve Novella writes: Let’s consider what variables might be interesting to control for with the “rotting hamburger” question. The most obvious one would be to set out McDonald’s hamburgers (more …
Here it is:
Somehow Brittle
Like an old china cup, stained,
thin from use (though I am far from thin) and chipped
On the edge of a counter, poised.
The slightest of bulls,
those dark eyes, that hot breath
and laughing air fills me, folds
me
down.
The hairline crack caused by the shaking, pale, and delicate
hand of a Countess,
on a cool November night
in 1847
as she watched, with dry and grey eyes
the creation of a deathmask
Sarah’d been only four, pretty blond ringlets
for the fifth of her children and the third to die young
when she set down the cup
hard (too hard)
becomes all of me as I kiss the floor
in a thousand pieces
and think once of you.
My dad sent me this picture from some old University of Rhode Island yearbook. Somehow, I’m not a young man any more. How’d that happen? Oh, right. Time. I had a huge crush on Beth Corets back then and we would occasionally and idly talk about running off to Ireland where she would bake bread …
September 2010 Books (and now Plays) read in their entirety.
I’ve been pretty damn busy. No surprise there, considering that I’m in a PhD program. What I didn’t expect is just how lonely I am without Erin, Cassie, and Piper to live with, my friend Jen to share dinners with, and a sense of community, even it it was small. Many of you may know …
I. Cannot. Wait.
Wherein I share what movies or tv series I watched in August of 2010
Truthfully, I’m not a big Arcade Fire fan. I know a lot of people respect and like their music, but they simply don’t reach me in ways that other bands do.
However.
I am a huge fan of their vision as artists, as evidenced in this interactive video that they’ve created. Go there, follow the directions and let me know what you think.
via Daring Fireball
