Uncategorized

Tom posted this over the weekend:

All of this is transparent, and all of this is part of a historic pattern among Republicans. In fact, the last time the country fought a battle over “traditional marriage” — racists attempting to uphold state bans on interracial marriage during the civil rights era — the political landscape was strikingly similar to the political landscape today.

This project is an informal discussion of modernism and postmodernism, ultimately to be applied to the larger Gothic Funk debate. A more detailed description of the project is available here. PLEASE ADD YOUR COMMENTS AND JOIN THE DEBATE:

Paragraph 4, Sentence 4:

The poem defines what Hugh Kenner calls “the gestalt of what it could assimilate” because the conditions of imaginative visibility become part of the constructed object.

– WHAT IS VERY GOOD, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT IT IS GOTHIC FUNK – Brokeback Mountain. (It sticks with you. It’s also a little unfair and oblitatory… but in a good way.)

– WEATHER – The weather has conspired (at this moment) to endorse Al Gore’s movie.

Today is the feast of the Sacred Heart. This image, more than any other religious rendering I’ve ever seen, is a large part of the reason for my conversion. The reason is because if you find an authentic rendering, and buy “authentic” I mean one sufficiently charged that it would feel a little unsettling to be looking down on you at dinner time from its framed place above the mantle, it absolutely shakes with passion.

– YESTERDAY – I promised I wouldn’t fall behind anymore, but I’ve fallen behind, and for those of you who know anything about my personal life you’ll understand that when I say I haven’t had time, it isn’t just for blogging, but for work or sleep or sanity either.

This “project” is an informal discussion of modernism and postmodernism, ultimately to be applied to the larger Gothic Funk debate. A more detailed description of the project is available here. PLEASE ADD YOUR COMMENTS AND JOIN THE DEBATE:

Paragraph 4, Sentence 3:

First, “realization” had to replace description, so that instead of copying the external world the work could render it an image insisting on its own distinctive form of reality.

– YESTERDAY – Sent out a comprehensive GF email. After work, I walked to a Barnes & Noble and worked on reading and “to do” lists for the next year. Beginning next Monday. I went home and put off dealing with the bedbugs for another night, though I was able to relay a message to the landlady about contacting an exterminator.

This “project” is an informal discussion of modernism and postmodernism, ultimately to be applied to the larger Gothic Funk debate. A more detailed description of the project is available here. PLEASE ADD YOUR COMMENTS AND JOIN THE DEBATE:

Paragraph 4, Sentence 2:

In poetry, that constitutive project relied on two fundamental principles.

– YESTERDAY – EDIT: Sorry, kids. Yesterday was a frustrating day, although I’m in a very good mood about it. If you’re curious, email me for more info.

– JUNE – Is skin cancer awareness month.
– TODAY – Is Vegan World Day.

Well, the word is out.
In the past we’ve have “krauts” and “japs” and “gooks.” Now the Iraq war has defined its own ethnic “nickname” for the people we’re over there “helping.”

So much for all of us being created equal, yada yada.