Archive for the 'writing' Category
At Susie’s
Yo folks, I’m posting at Susie’s today, so things are gonna be light around here.
For those commenters who fondly remember my troll, the Travelling Guy, he lives at Susie’s now until she finds a way to disinfect. So please join in the pigpile.
New Blogroll Addition!
I was bopping around sitemeter, and Allie’s Musings has me on her blogroll. Wow! A total stranger likes me enough to add me to her links!
I liked her piece on commas, and her style, so she’s new in the blogroll. Pay a visit.
“The Awful German Language”
Via FDL commenter Eli:
Mark Twain’s The Awful German Language is a reminder that any successful contemporary American satirist or humorists stands on the shoulder of giants. I couldn’t hold in the belches of laughter reading Twain’s experiences with German. A sample:
There are ten parts of speech, and they are all troublesome. An average [...]
Grant Me Strength.
I haven’t been blogging all that much the past few weeks, and I’d like to apologize to my readers. Fact is, I’ve been up to my neck in a federal grant at work. It’s taken up the majority of my time, and in fact there are three other grants that are almost done [...]
Read More..>>Adam the Soldier at Daily Kos
I’m still reading this post by Adam the Soldier at dailykos. He’s a soldier recently returned from Iraq. His punctuation and spelling are atrocious, but what he’s saying under the garbled grammar is hitting me like Riddick Bowe.
Ive never left that desert,and i guess ive gotten use to writting in journels when i can just [...]
I Write Letters
Because no one has bothered to respond to phone calls or letters about Peter Beinart, pseudo-liberal and BS artist I am publishing the following letter to Radio Times
Dear Ms. Moss Coane and the rest of the staff at Radio Times:
I’m a big fan of the show and try to listen in whenever possible. I’ve called [...]
New Haven Story
I worked with this woman in New Haven named Rosemary Hernandez. She was a pudgy little person, fifteen years older than me with a booming voice that cut the air like an SST. She wore her hair up with a lot of hairspray, and had eyes that seemed to bug out of her [...]
Read More..>>Writing
All I’ve done today is write.
I worked on a couple of grants at work today. Got in some small bloggins as well.
When I got home, I began editing my friend Kate’s op-ed draft for a newspaper in California. I’m currently going back and forth with my girlfriend on a funding request to her department. [...]
Oh Snap. It’s Bill Monroe.
Reuben’s Train, a slightly different version than the one I know. Oh snap! Vic Jordan on banjo!
A Voice From on High. The audio sync is off, but guaranteed this is live. Bill didn’t do lip sync-ing.
Wicked old footage of “Uncle Pen”
Bill Monroe is like a god to me. Bluegrass music changed my life, and [...]
Lizzie, the Magical Negro, and Families of Choice
I added some thoughts to FOOB: Getting All Racial that I think speak to my larger concerns regarding subtle racism in For Better or For Worse, so before I go on, I hope you’ll pay a visit and read my expanded post. Don’t worry, I wait.
As you’ll see, I wrote a bit about institutionalized [...]
