Online Fiction

Via the ever-loyal & reliable Riley Dog, I found this short story, “Flowers Pick Themselves,” by Scott Elmegreen, who appears to be a recent graduate of Princeton. It’s not hypertext (with the exception of one internal link), but it does make use of the computer screen as a space for reading. There is also a [...]

Seven Years

As of this week I’ve been writing a blog for seven years. I’ve never had much traffic & the blog is partly just a place for me to put stuff or jot down notes or lay down political rants that have to go somewhere or my head would explode. I value my few readers as [...]

Against Stoicism

Steve Gimbel at Philosopher’s Playground, has a recent post about the Stoic Epictetus. Reading that in combination with this piece in The Smart Set about “longevity hot spots” got me thinking about my own approach to ordinary pleasures, especially eating & drinking. When you hit your fifties you start thinking about how long you’ll live. [...]

Everybody’s Talkin’ . . .

. . . about Vietnam analogies. I remember hearing back in 2004 that Iraq was different from Vietnam. I was told more than once that because Iraq had sand whereas Vietnam has jungle that we’d be able to “win.” The nasty “moral black hole” [see Rick Perlstein link below] of the word “win” in this [...]

Frost’s “The Silken Tent”

In a comment to an earlier post, BDR recommended this poem of Frost’s, which I hadn’t read since I was an undergraduate. Reading it several times over the last couple of days, it occurs to me how metaphysical the poem is. In the sense of the Metaphysical Poets of the 17th century.
She is as [...]

God Comes Clean

In one of those once-in-an-infinity tabloid scoops (via Discordian Research Thecnology), God — “close to tears at times” –Â admits that he dabbled in evolution when he was a young deity. [Be sure to click through for the photo of God.]

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