30.7.05


Erechtheion (detail)

J. Pascal Sébah
Art and Architecture (quick, painless, reg. req. for search)
Courtauld Institute of Art
The Locust Song

That zero now, the "black hole"
of the astronomers . . . by now it's the rose

and the willow and the rainbow and the nightingale
of two generations of us; string theory is easily the sunrise
over the Mediterranean Sea of us. "I think of . . ." then
a historical reference, Mendel, Bruegel, Mata Hari,
how many times? The prize and the prize and the prize.
A swarm of prizes...

Albert Goldbarth
Poetry Daily
TCM already today:
Busby Berkeley's Bright Lights with Joe E. Brown and Ann Dvorak;
and right now:
Earthworm Tractors!

25.7.05

Great geography learning apps, with skill levels and instant feedback.
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link robotwisdom

Was it here?
Or here?
Possibly this?
Here maybe?
This seems unlikely and yet...

Ah, here it is!
I think.


Walt Whitman & his rebel soldier friend Pete Doyle, Washington, D.C., 1865
LOC
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Up Late, Reading Whitman

...or in the eyes of the woman
at the register whose name tag says "Mary Shelley," though she
does not know the other Mary Shelley, and certainly claims no
relation, though what body is not a relation?

James Kimbrell
Poetry Daily