Category: lj-import

\”Love should be put into action!\” screamed the old hermit. Across the pond an echo tried and tried to confirm it. -Elizabeth Bishop, \”Chemin de Fer\”

You know those days where each thing flows directly into the next, and at the end of it all you're not sure where any one stopped and the next begun? I just had a day like that. It was immensely enjoyable. Thanks to Elana, Sarah, Danko and Rusty in particular for their company. It was…

Wow. This is utterly awesome. Holy cow. Look at this. http://www.worldbeardchampionships.com/ [ article ] (Stolen from Sarah)

\”Lacking bear pepper-spray, I walked home across the garden last night singing very loud bear songs, which went something along the lines of, \”Lalala, I am singing very loudly to alert the bear to my presence, Lalala because most of the websites I\’ve found talk about making noise and giving bears lots of time to…

I made it through the long drive from Spokane and Portland, dragging with me my parents and living supplies (like a toothbrush, clothes, art supplies, this computer…). I'm back in Portland! Let the festivities ensue. I may be very busy for the first week or so, and I hope to get a job eventually, but…

My first of four finals is over and done with. No more poetry. Actually, it's the class that I'm saddest to see go (besides Ethics, for which I still have to write a paper). I knew everything I needed to know, but I had a heck of a time analyzing the poem that we were…

It probably says something about me that when I read a headline like \”African Union Official Is Hacked to Death in Darfur,\” I immediately think \”Blasted militant nerds….\”

There are many things in life that have eluded me: the perfect phrasing of a poetic line, that uncanny ability to fold one's tongue into knots that was so vogue in elementary school, the satisfactory completion of a culinary experiment. But tonight I was pleased. Tonight I cooked a never-before-(personally)-attempted dish. A simple salmon linguine.…

\”In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.\” -Dan Simmons, Hyperion (I'm not sure if this offends anyone, but I thought it was a very good and legitimate use of profanity. Like some profane poems, it…

\”The first temptation of Sakyamuni was desire, but he saw that it led to fulfillment and then to desire, so that one was easy.\” \”Suppose, before they said silver or moonlight or wet grass, each poet had to agree to be responsible for the innocence of all the suffering on earth, because they learned in…