Animal Cruelty
In a comment to the previous post, Chris Robinson makes reference to a poem from my book Magical Thinking. We bear a special responsibility, greater perhaps than the responsibility we bear toward each other, to care for animals. Whichever philosopher said that we reveal our character through our treatment of those weaker than ourselves was [...]
Guillermo Vargas Habacuc
I’m not going to link to the photos / video of artist Habacuc’s work. If you want to see a dog starving to death as an art installation, you can search on the name.
Proposal for funding: An art installation: Guillermo Vargas Habacuc comes to my house & we tie him to a tree out back [...]
Leafing Out
There ought to be a name for the day, in temperate climates, that the trees leaf out. (It would not be the same date each year & it would come earlier the further south one went.) Here in St. Lawrence County, that day was yesterday. The world went from shades of gray & brown to [...]
The Angels Want to Wear My Red Shoes
When the last pope first came to this country, I was in graduate school in Iowa. People that I actually knew — people I would never have suspected of such impulses — drove to Chicago to attend a mass presided over by John Paul II. Perhaps it was because John Paul & the poet Czeslaw [...]
Spring Birds Again
Came home today after teaching & sat on the deck looking at the river. First really warm day of the year, though there are still patches of snow in the deep hollows in the woods. Just at dusk, the blackbirds & grackles began arriving, perching in the high branches of the maples to catch the [...]
Postcard Collage Project Update
I have now sent postcards to the following poets:
Ed Mycue
Harvey Hix
Michael Waters
Laura Jensen
Ed Mycue
Reginald Shepard
David Graham
Amy Hauber
Robert Dana
Jonathan Mayhew (4.17.2008)
Peter Money
My immediate goal is 100 cards, though I expect there to be many repeats — this first batch is just to introduce the lucky recipients to what I’m doing. You can see the cards — [...]
Connections
I wonder if there is any connection between this & this. Me, if I had one of those drug plans & a serious disease, I’d make sure I died at work & that before I died I was publicly ill — wheezing, coughing, collapsing, & pissing my pants in public, all the while explaining to [...]
Cutting Board
I wanted to mention our new cutting board, custom-made by Matt Christie. Matt has his own blog, Pas Au-Delà & is also a contributor to Long Sunday. I found out about his woodworking skills because Scott McLemee, my favorite cultural critic, mentioned Matt on his blog, Quick Study. Confused? Doesn’t matter, just look at this [...]
Grackles
Huge mixed flock of common grackles, redwing blackbirds, and starlings in the still-bare maples today. Rain & sleet this morning, giving way to steady rain out of a black sky.
War Criminals
It is remarkable, to say the least, that former Attorney John Ashcroft was shocked by the deliberations in the White House on how to torture specific suspects. “History will not look kindly . . .” The US has been ruled by criminals before, but not to my knowledge by an organized gang of war [...]
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