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Three Musicians
Adams Morgan Aug 2002

Mary Anne, Chiaroscuro, Dec 2004

web pages I read

good writing

Beloit Poetry Journal
Cream City Review
Fine Madness
Guernica: a magazine of art and politics
Paris Review
Pleiades
Poetry Daily
Poetry Magazine
QuickFiction
Taiga
Web Del Sol "is a collaboration on the part of scores of dedicated editors, writers, poets, artists, and staff whose job it is to acquire and frame the finest contemporary literary art and culture available in America, and abroad, and to array it in such a manner that it speaks for itself."

Blogs

Environment Blogs

Science Blogs

English Usage

Hwæt
Hwæt is an Old English word meaning "Lo" or "Listen up." It is an attention-getting interjection and the first word of the Beowulf poem. The word is pronounced /hwat/ and rhymes with "that." The initial H is unstressed and emerges as an exhalation.

Sie müssen schlafen aber Ich muss tanzen. ("They must sleep but I must dance.")
— Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian

Interviewers: Do you feel that any critics have influenced your work?

Nelson Algren: None could have, because I don't read them. I doubt anyone does, except other critics. It seems like a sealed-off field with its own lieutenants, pretty much preoccupied with its own intrigues. I got a glimpse into the uses of a certain kind of criticism this past summer at a writer's conference — into how the avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D. I saw how it was possible to gain a chair of literature on no qualification other than persistence in nipping the heels of Hemingway, Faulkner, and Steinbeck. I know, of course, that there are true critics, one or two. For the rest all I can say is, "Deal around me."

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Questions you asked

Love. Grammar. Internet dating. God. The soul. The universe. here

Guerrilla Stutterer

Strategies for living with a congenital or a longterm stutter. here

Recommended Books

From Hayden Carruth to Marguerite Yourcenar. this way

Computer Assembly

Illustrated chronicle of building a computer, late 1999. go

Brief Essays

These are essays I wrote a long time ago.

Cairo

Conversations

D.C. Metro Area News

These are a few parodic news stories I wrote during the summer of 1999. There used to be more of these stories but I took down the ones that were less funny. These stories are intended for people age 18 or older. Some of them contain language that will offend some people.

98.7% of academic essays have titles divided by a colon

Area 14-year-old doesn't have the sense god gave a garbanzo bean

Contraction it's given over to possessive case

Elves, mortals protest toll hike at Bifrost Bridge

Man estimates length of time he will be pissed off

Seven Lessons from Star Wars

N. Korea shows nuclear missile deterrent to U.S. inspectors
Deterrent turns out to be really good slingshot guy

Confused Dept of Interior distributes forty mules, acre to each family