As evening fades into night, and the stoner cockroach calliope summons the neighborhood children to buy ice cream, I take a moment to remember the drying overhead projector sheets on the lawn.
[I then take a different moment to think whether I would have caught merry hell for the above sentence in my college creative writing [...]
Archive for July 15th, 2008
Washing out my words on a summer evening
Posted in Gardening, Musing about Teaching on 15 July, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Another quote: kvetching about modern music
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There’s a tagline used at the end of a short radio spot about classical music that goes something like “reminding you that all music was once new”. I appreciate the thought, but that doesn’t change my preference for harmony over dissonance, and for tunes I might want to hum or whistle in the future. [...]
