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Comment on ring ring ring ring ring ring ring by zunedita373

zunedita373 — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 07:41:37 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JMgW080b0o

Man, those JibJab guys crack me up.

Comment on 221009 by B Duane Mac

B Duane Mac — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:25:05 +0000

Naked fall branches reach;
a squirrel’s step is a sparrow’s flap.
The deep roots burrow;
the concrete cracks.
These wooden words demand;
a genre answers the call.
Sappy headed bulbs query;
the frost hardens cold.
In the mourn o’night,
shone brightly a satellite.
Romance blushes, irony howls.
On rainy days the numinist sorts,
the sinking coins hatch a rocky fragrance.
These words tire the axel pact of Atlas and gravity;
go-rhythm – the jack-hammer flies bite.
Yawn. Anger. Shame. Death. Hamsterdam

Comment on harakaat by biqbal

biqbal — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:10:18 +0000

sean – yes indeed. philosemites of the world unite! turns out paul was wrong after all (galatians 5:6: “neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision”).
this seems a perfect moment to (once again) tell my (maybe tired) story about dan. he proclaimed himself a pantheistic greek (“what can i say”) a couple of years ago. some of us are unfortunate jewgreeks, i replied, shook my head, and walked away. and that is the end of the story.

lara – i’m going to ask you to walk me through the bonnefoy article sometime. also, remind me to show you the manicom translation i mentioned.
one-trick ponies get things done.

Comment on harakaat by Larisa

Larisa — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:40:08 +0000

This resonated with the Bonnefoy that I was telling you about the other day. As in, proving the European disconnect between words and their objects.

“Precisely because, for him, being is nature to which one cannot add, Mallarmé must reject the place where one lives because it cuts nature off. And one can safely say that he must have turned with interest under these conditions towards words, as they enable that which we conceive, but which fails to exist effectively, to re-form itself. The words would be – or so one might think, that “région où vivre,” that could not be found elsewhere.” (Bonnefoy, 1977: 11)

I am such a one-trick pony these days.

Comment on harakaat by Sean H

Sean H — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:53:25 +0000

The guy’s just a postmodernist.

Seriously, though–I like! I assume this applies to Hebrew, too… Ah, all good things are indeed Semitic!

Comment on for love of the road by fathima

fathima — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:25:59 +0000

well, in a couple of weeks, you’ll have to turn 180 when you want to stick your tongue out.

Comment on for love of the road by Laura

Laura — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:28:54 +0000

some radio station is playing some other guy who may or may not work out of Lethbridge. Yes, I can see the strong connection.

Fathima beats me to everything. In response, I will stick out my tongue, and point it in the general direction of Toronto. Take that Fathima! Ha ha!

Comment on for love of the road by biqbal

biqbal — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:09:13 +0000

ha – yes, fathima introduced me to them last year. kind of related: ckua’s playing a lot of leeroy stagger these days, and i think he’s based in lethbridge.

Comment on for love of the road by Laura

Laura — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:00:57 +0000

You know there’s a band called The Rural Alberta Advantage with such fabulous titles as The Deathbridge in Lethbridge. I’m not sure you’d like them much, but they are fun. I dare you to look them up. I Double Dog Dare you! Oh, it’s ON!

Comment on for love of the road by biqbal

biqbal — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:41:28 +0000

and i thought that was a particularly alberrtan thing…

well, thanks for the heads-up. basically i want to get in somewhere that’ll let me do what i have in mind. that’s a fine approach, non?