What the world needs now? Donkey basketball and in-fighting yesterday afternoon and night in Texas. Really now, this is what the world needs. Change to pay the parking meter. It seems John McCain turned in early after an iced tea and chicken fried steak dinner. I burned the midnight oil second night in a row. How goes your team? (Best. Campaign. Ever.) Entranced Stage Left, Tejas
The Spirits behind the writers
Horace reports that the 5th century Athenian poet Cratinus, in a light-hearted defense of his famed intemperance, declared, "No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by water drinkers." Cratinus wasn't entirely kidding: Legend says he died of grief upon seeing a full cask of wine break into pieces. And writers of subsequent ages have taken his sentiment to heart. Wherever you find the pen-and-ink set, drink is an emblem of vivacity and wit, at times regarded with semireligious reverence. (Continue reading at latimes.com)
What wine can tell us about the nature of reality. Scientists at Cal-Tech and Stanford recently published the results of a peculiar wine tasting. They provided people with cabernet sauvignons at various price points, with bottles ranging from $5 to $90. Although the tasters were told that all the wines were different, the scientists were in fact presenting the same wines at different prices. (Continue reading at Boston.com) via Boston Globe | Jonah Lehrer
In her preface to "Our Secret Discipline," Helen Vendler tells us that 50 years ago, as a graduate student at Harvard, she planned to write her dissertation on Yeats' poetry; then on reflection decided that, at age 22, she didn't know enough to write about a poet who kept going until age 73...(Continue reading at Boston.com)
The Sound of a Nation's Typography aka That's Some Safari starring Miss Tery Hatcher Fearful of the wild frontier art the undead summon the superficiality of domesticated cut-outs carrying gullible canvas: affluent practitioners stuck at the poles empty-handed but for the chatter of the party line. Auditory Global Greenhouse, remember the sound of a nation's topography .
Poet. Lover of academy and porch.
