Entries from October 2008

October 28, 2008

“The Sublime is Us”

“The Sublime is Us” is the title of a dance piece, for which I read A Review this weekend. It was performed at the Dance Theater Workshop in NYC.
READER: Gross. Is this going to be that blog, where I have to read about dance reviews? Uuuuuuuuuuuu.
Fear not, gentle reader: it isn’t! I was just struck by the title.
The audience [...]

October 21, 2008

Pensive, penitential, plural-y

“Plural-y”? I dunno.
Business:
1. Get you to The Word Shop Blog:  The blog featuring the work of the high school students whom Lara and I have begun to teach The Poetry. The blog so happening that it will doubtless force me to stop utilizing the word “happening” on anything approaching a regular basis.
2. My friend Fischer sent me [...]

October 14, 2008

On The Wane, or: Yay!

Saturday afternoon, in the grocery store, I observed a human being more hapless than myself. Generally, it is a given that–especially in a grocery store–I am the most hapless individual within a five mile radius. I fall apart in grocery stores. The best laid plans vanish into nothingness.
PRE-GROCERY STORE=PLANS
INSIDE ACTUAL GROCERY STORE=ø
ME: How do you spell “coffee”?
The [...]

October 7, 2008

Vespers.

Oh, gentle readers…oh, oh, oh.
So this is what last Friday looked like, and the day after that, which was Saturday, and the day after that, which was Sunday, and the day after that, which was Monday:

Just millions and bajillions of drops of precipitation beginning to collide with one another within a cloud formation, creating a “charge [...]