Ing | January 28, 2009
No, I’m not challenging you to fight me ‘n my redneck friends. (Hey! Why don’tcha come rassle us, you pencil-neck geek!)
I’m in pencil-neck geek mode, and I want to talk about Rasselas Prince of Abysinnia, a novella written in 1759 by Samuel Johnson, which just happens to be book #7 in my 50 for 09 reading [...]
Ing | January 25, 2009
“Careful, careful language.”
This is how Elizabeth Alexander, who wrote and read the poem at President Obama’s inauguration (whoa…that’s the first time I’ve ever said president Obama…feels weird after 8 years of the same president) described poetry in a Q&A with Time magazine. In a lot of ways, she’s right. Poetry definitely is the most careful possible [...]