tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37522592024-03-07T00:35:45.780-08:00The ObviousHowdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13873795426098106200noreply@blogger.comBlogger1640125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752259.post-42789960484137862772022-10-08T11:55:00.003-07:002022-10-08T11:55:43.602-07:00 Amy Lowell has far more urban imagism than I had recalled: taxis, critiques of symbolist retreat, all there!!!Howdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13873795426098106200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752259.post-48076738252188602322021-10-09T06:44:00.001-07:002021-10-09T06:44:31.058-07:00One Horse TownA "one horse town" is a place which relies on a single industry as its major source of revenue -- jobs, the commerce jobs bring, and etc. Et cetera being real estate/land, housing with or without municipal services, one physical bank, a number of churches, a post office, and grocery.One horse -- say mining, "the plant", back office for a large corporation, an exit on the interstate -- will do, asHowdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13873795426098106200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752259.post-77814017994457756452021-10-01T16:03:00.003-07:002021-10-02T10:36:23.733-07:0033 Faces -- Slides & Instagram33 FacesHowdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13873795426098106200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752259.post-37823097270311291482017-08-17T10:11:00.002-07:002017-08-17T10:11:39.955-07:00Lessons from a year playing Pokemon GoPokestops are, in general, "street furniture". While most of these were initially Ingress sites, and many others have been added (notably Starbucks and Sprint stores):
Churches, temples (many faiths), zen centers. I no longer live near a Sikh house of assembly, nor a mosque, so I don't know about coverage of all faiths.
Clocks.
Fountains.
Architectural details (gargoyles, mosaics,Howdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13873795426098106200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752259.post-13876581281533444842017-07-26T20:18:00.003-07:002017-07-26T20:18:26.834-07:00voting -- beginning of spielAs with everything else, there is a great deal of confusion about "voter fraud", barriers to voting, and voter registration.
Before the last general election, +Ashby Manson shared that he still receives voter registration update cards for more than one! previous owner of his house. Disturbing -- did these people sell a home and neglect to re-register? Are they then not Howdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13873795426098106200noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752259.post-65922528448195970862017-06-02T10:17:00.003-07:002017-06-02T10:17:39.540-07:00http://jacket2.org/commentary/bodies-cities-part-1-queering-geographic-information
Awesome essay!
Although one has to question the idea that Schuyler was a poet of urban environments, since he wrote so much about man-made suburban environments (well, Southampton, NY, is hardly suburban). He also wrote about preferring smaller towns with more outdoor space. However, Eileen Myles' Howdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13873795426098106200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752259.post-19624356474650809942017-06-01T06:22:00.001-07:002017-06-01T06:22:29.057-07:00
I would like to write a bit about James Schuyler, even though I never met him.
As a fan of his poetry, I am a bit disappointed about the critical discourse surrounding him and his work. For instance, after he was released from the US Navy after WWII, returning to Manhattan, writing a play made into a short film, he chose to go to Italy and continue his studies. Was he a “Howdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13873795426098106200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752259.post-25404125007692681072017-01-06T09:07:00.001-08:002017-01-06T10:30:40.683-08:00DisreputableI began using "disreputable" to refer to items about 20 years ago (or more).
In context: "this disreputable sponge" is a kitchen sponge so filthy that all sorts of soap and vinegar will not clean it enough in order to prepare it to clean other things, such as pots and pans or floors.
^ that was the intro:
recalling reading how-to home maker American Books from the 30's: &Howdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13873795426098106200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752259.post-25282543693779782612016-11-03T22:35:00.000-07:002016-11-03T22:35:02.177-07:00In light...Three people I knew, or knew of, most closely, died before the Cubs won the World Series.
But I am an opinionated person, as always (go Cubs), and so I want to post a few things:
These are some of the phrases that have travelled with me during my life thus far:
1) your shit doesn't smell sweeter.
(it does not)
2) you think you are so smart.
(yes, you got that; also I am)
3) you're so Howdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13873795426098106200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752259.post-21536368388674962572016-10-24T11:59:00.001-07:002016-10-25T11:43:13.896-07:00
Lunch Ladies
During the recent and not-so-recent controvery about school lunches, breakfasts, and snacks, as well as lunchesand sometimes dinners, I would like to share some few stories.
I went to parochial school, beginning in the 70s. Before this time, when children after first communicaion were supposed to be in mass, the prospect of 500+ hungry 2-8th graders loomed large. Howdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13873795426098106200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752259.post-68389145958493892172016-07-30T23:15:00.000-07:002016-07-30T23:15:37.891-07:00I want to think it might be fair and appropriate to share some things I do and think about social media and other forms of contact here and then with the other social media sites I interact with.
~ use my contact info for discounts and coupons and stuff, if by so doing & if no action is required on my part (including having to delete stuff I don't agree with, performing an action I do not Howdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13873795426098106200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752259.post-44740688389891733562016-07-20T00:23:00.000-07:002016-07-20T00:23:12.002-07:00Food-Moth Ritual
Sometimes, in Southern California, one gets used to the rhythms of the bugs there, there are moths in bags of rice, or beans, or any sort of legume, or grain.
So then, the grocery errand changes.
Purchase rice, beans, rye, in bulk or in bags.
Purchase ceramic, glass, or whatever jars or containers at the dollar store.
Bring them home and put them in the freezer.
After a day Howdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13873795426098106200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752259.post-20980757308977249752016-07-19T23:45:00.002-07:002016-07-30T20:54:15.275-07:00Thoughts Trying to Take Crap Picture of Moon
Hurry, hurry, that's a great shot!
Oh, it is the moon.
(relax, don't take a picture: enjoy the moon which is there and always will be)
Now there is a cloud over the moon.
Waiting.
Waiting.
(I was enoying the moon and walking around without taking a picture, and then I wanted to take a picture, and a cloud had intervened, sorry cloud, I didn't take a Howdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13873795426098106200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752259.post-25376362992297106952016-01-20T16:37:00.003-08:002016-01-20T16:47:31.720-08:00The G Doesn't LightThe store has two levels, "G" and "C". You board with your cart at "C" and press "G". Nothing seems to happen. You get it. Then, other shoppers enter too quickly, worrying they aren't controlling their medley of groceries and children. Others are miffed. You, standing next to the buttons press and hold the "door open" button, so that the man using the cart as a walker can board. Then, you Howdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13873795426098106200noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752259.post-43134724902279917242016-01-19T23:01:00.000-08:002016-07-19T23:39:34.697-07:00orange you glad I didn't say....
banana
bananaHowdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13873795426098106200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752259.post-80707475519779243612016-01-04T00:28:00.000-08:002016-07-19T23:42:38.080-07:00Something about Voting, WIPI have many thoughts. Some of my colleagues and friends have written about voting history + among women, as have I.
Still I ask, without creating an easily-sharable UML-standard flowchart:
are you an informed voter?
a Yes = vote
b No = don't vote
2 do you "plunk vote"? see b. vote differently, though.
3 story problem: "everyone likes cornflakes". Do you vote for the cornflakes? if Howdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13873795426098106200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752259.post-32638690102698478872015-11-18T14:41:00.002-08:002015-11-18T14:41:30.542-08:00Dad word listcrisp
whale
whales & humming birds
deck
so
pines
bold & merry
shoe
8
spine
super
Tom
thinHowdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13873795426098106200noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752259.post-48165540524921594102015-11-02T14:49:00.002-08:002015-11-02T14:50:03.568-08:00The cadaly at wordpress is not me.
Howdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13873795426098106200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752259.post-24776974284306730532015-09-20T10:30:00.001-07:002015-09-20T10:30:51.138-07:00return sun on leaves on trees wind riffles through this;
return bombs and dust thrust onto, into everything, moths, eyes, water, food;
return weather, inexorable blue and sun and moon or appropriate overcast;
...rodents,roaches,and books, my pets
...songs,messages,calls,sounds to be sung again,said again,shout once more Howdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13873795426098106200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752259.post-37228166236012830732015-08-06T04:29:00.001-07:002015-12-13T12:29:11.305-08:00yeah! help with botanical illustrations by women projhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/sets/with/72157638544764936Howdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13873795426098106200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752259.post-32289858381262193342015-06-28T01:16:00.000-07:002015-06-28T01:16:31.037-07:00I don't understand why people blow up churches and temples and mosques. I don't understand why people hate gay people. Isn't sex why people say "the best things in life are free"? What about slavery? That slaves were expensive? That radical peace and animal rights people point out evil slave breeding programs? I don't understand why people say (this is from growing up) that people "smell badHowdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13873795426098106200noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752259.post-80420964532384475472015-05-19T04:44:00.001-07:002015-05-19T04:44:07.126-07:00yet another play in which nothing happensCharacters:
Woman with a Gun (not a real gun)
Neurotic Woman with a Cellphone (either stage ring or real ring)
Postal Worker (Male or Female) with a dog
A Dog
Person (Male or Female) with a child
A Child (Male or Female)
Smoker (Male or Female)
OK if audience cellphones are not turned off during play, but if they are supposed to be, gather cellphone numbers as audience enters, and call Howdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13873795426098106200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752259.post-44872935891125284672015-03-11T02:36:00.001-07:002015-03-11T02:36:15.667-07:00http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aisling
Howdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13873795426098106200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752259.post-42322443561246705062015-03-10T13:11:00.001-07:002015-03-10T13:11:22.091-07:00Spirit of The BeehiveMy mousepad crapped out. Maurice the Mouse, or whomever, obviously not holding up his end. Hey, this is a small apartment, I thought I placed you in charge of ALL mice! So I found it difficult to pay my bills online, and walked to the blue box to mail one. I stopped at the reportedly decent Italian Restaurant on the corner -- I had seen the logs outside, but figured they were for wood oven, Howdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13873795426098106200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752259.post-58310306632062131662015-03-05T14:49:00.001-08:002015-03-05T14:49:06.133-08:00Customer ServiceAt Bed, Bath & Beyond today,
yes, I was at BBB making a return, not at the Better Business Bureau,
everything was very quiet. It is snowing.
There must have been an employee meeting before the store opened, because *everybody* was there -- I mean there were many people there, working, and only a handful of shoppers, which is quite rare in New York.
So I made my return, and walked to the Howdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13873795426098106200noreply@blogger.com0