Monthly Archives: March 2009

Interview with David Sullivan (gbudavid on various social media sites)

Note: Yes, I’m busy, still. David was gracious enough to provide me with this so I wouldn’t have to spend too much time putting together a blog entry. Many thanks to him for helping out. David Sullivan is a US Navy Veteran living in Portland, Oregon, working as a truck driver. It’s neat hearing from …

March 31, 2009 – 4:23 pm | By ashok | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged | Comments (4)

If you like this blog, and haven’t already, please do consider subscribing

If I showed you the subscription numbers for this blog, you would break into open laughter. Hint: there are 20 people subscribed via Google Reader, and I know I’m one of them. For 3 years of blogging, I should be somewhere around the 200 subscription mark by now, and instead I’m way, way less than …

March 30, 2009 – 5:01 pm | By ashok | Posted in blogging | Comments (1)

Links, 3/30/09

First three links, h/t aldaily.com; fourth link is from LGF: Parisians aren’t rude, but “impossibly polite:” fta – When my son was learning to write, his school report gave him marks for whether his boucles, or loops, of his joined-up letters respected to the millimetre the inter-line boundaries printed on the page. At the same …

March 30, 2009 – 1:34 am | By ashok | Posted in links | Comments (0)

Reading too much into risk: On Dickinson’s “We like a Hairbreadth ‘scape…” (1175)

“We like a Hairbreadth ‘scape…” (1175) Emily Dickinson We like a Hairbreadth ‘scape It tingles in the Mind Far after Act or Accident Like paragraphs of Wind If we had ventured less The Breeze were not so fine That reaches to our utmost Hair Its Tentacles divine. Comment: The narrator speaks about risk and the …

March 29, 2009 – 10:41 pm | By ashok | Posted in dickinson, poetry | Comments (2)

Links, 3/26/09

I know, I know. I have work to do, I’m behind. Still, real fast: Brad DeLong presents the Geithner Plan FAQ. (h/t marginalrevolution.com) It’s actually pretty clear, a few of you have voiced concerns about how this would fail: “What if businesses don’t need the credit to expand right now anyway?” I haven’t really found …

March 26, 2009 – 12:02 pm | By ashok | Posted in links | Comments (0)

On Primadonnas (more properly: “prima donne”)

1. From Wikipedia: Originally used in opera companies, “prima donna” is Italian for “first lady”. The term was used to designate the leading female singer in the opera company, the person to whom the prime roles would be given. The prima donna was normally, but not necessarily, a soprano. The corresponding term for the male …

March 21, 2009 – 9:31 am | By ashok | Posted in politics | Comments (3)

I Think I Want to Create My Own Blog Network

If you’re interested, e-mail me or leave me a comment. I’ve e-mailed a few of you, and will talk to more shortly. I have a few ideas for promotion as a group that I know will help you out, but I need something like 5-10 solid blogs to start this thing. I have a pretty …

March 21, 2009 – 12:59 am | By ashok | Posted in blogging | Comments (3)

Some of you asked about the dissertation…

…the Memorabilia is 4 books, and I’m writing a commentary on it. The commentary on Book 1 is done, and most of Book 2 is finished. I’m writing on Book 2 right now, actually. There are already a few problems: there are a few metaphors I’m wildly speculative about, and I’m not sure how to …

March 19, 2009 – 6:11 pm | By ashok | Posted in personal | Comments (0)

Links, 3/19/2009

If you read the Guardian or The New York Times or pretty much nearly any newspaper, you’d believe the right-wing in the US has trillions of dollars while poor left-wing populists only have organizations that can barely afford vote fraud. Here’s a more accurate picture of American politics, and yes, that money buys media as …

March 19, 2009 – 5:01 pm | By ashok | Posted in links | Comments (0)

Holding Attention: On Emily Dickinson’s “So the Eyes accost – and sunder…” (752)

“So the Eyes accost – and sunder…” (752) Emily Dickinson So the Eyes accost – and sunder In an Audience – Stamped – occasionally – forever – So may Countenance Entertain – without addressing Countenance of One In a Neighboring Horizon – Gone – as soon as known – Comment: Countenance in Old French is …

March 19, 2009 – 8:46 am | By ashok | Posted in dickinson, poetry | Comments (0)