Monthly Archives: April 2006

Decreation – Anne Carson, triple threat

Working my way through Decreation by Anne Carson.
I got tipped by a literati family member to Autobiography of Red awhile back, and so when my local amazing bookstore posted the new book to their poetry section, I snagged it. And then a week or so later came the review in the aptly named Boston [...]

grups

Grups, at least the etymology is a clever repurposing from “speculative” pseudo-Twilight Zone original Star Trek sci-fi, monosyllabic, and easy to remember.
Gen-x is too old, gen-y is too young, and a guy who would rather buy scissors for $5 and cut his own hair than spend $100 at a salon cannot be described as “metro”; [...]

too long, and too much is wrong

Way too long since I last posted, but more time is at hand.
Talked to my brother, he’s hopefully dodging an ID card since he is already in Scotland, and is legal and all.
What a lovely time. Tech makes nations and geography less important (arguably), while politicians highlight the importance of national origin as the [...]