Bloggers Unite, World AIDS Day

I would like to think most of us are aware of HIV/AIDS and realizes these are a Bad Thing, but I don’t know. There are a lot of crazy people out there who believe the strangest things for no apparent reason (and, even worse, when shown they are wrong!). I can’t begin to understand that [...]

On "Ineffable"

I wrote this for my other blog, ineffably.net, but I thought someone might find this of interest here as well. I wonder, sometimes, if people don’t view the word “ineffable” in the same light that I do. If it may be seen as undesirable, a lack, a failing. In some ways, it is a failing–a failing [...]

Poetry Daily

While I assume most people who read these missives I send into the aether are well aware, I just want to put it out there again. Poetry Daily. Today’s is “User’s Guide to Physical Debilitation” by Paul Guest, and I found this snippet amusing: When not an outright impossibility or form of [...]

Suweet!

I’m in ISSUE 2!!!!! Page 382! (via Harriet) Incidentally, since the contents of my site are licensed under a creative commons license, it was totally cool of them to use it. I’m not going to be uppity like some people were (about Issue 1, anyway).

Is art for?

link (via Poetry Hut Blog) Maybe I’m the only one who isn’t familiar with Lewis Hyde, maybe not. I don’t recall having ever heard of him or his book The Gift. If that NYTimes piece is indicative of his views, I probably should look into it. Intellectual property is a murky idea. How do you really “own” [...]