a bee / buzzes around a pomegranate and hunger is born
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(1) Today's subject line comes from J.P. Dancing Bear's "Tigers," a poem featured at No Tell Motel this week. Good stuff, and his notes in the "Author Discusses Poems" pop-up suggest a sensibility closely resembling mine. *makes note to add his books to my wishlist*
(1a) More find-sparked poetry: Valerie Wohlfield's "Exhibitions," at poems.com.
(2) Had an unscheduled root canal yesterday. Feeling significantly better now, but I have two weeks' worth of not-sleeping-through-pain and near-constant nausea to recover from. Which means trusting in yet more of your patience as I continue deferring replies to comments/messages. (I'm getting to a few things here and there, but it's pretty random and my stamina's AWOL. I'm thinking of giving it an outright pass for the rest of the year - it keeps making noises about wanting to curl up in a cave somewhere in the Hebrides.)
(3) A pleasure: in this morning's New York Times, an op-art piece titled "Thirsting for Fountains": eight illustrators, eight cities, eight lists of fountain-goers.
(4) Vienna Teng's new tour schedule, which includes shows in Nashville, Knoxville, Louisville, Lexington (KY), Northhampton (MA), Bath (ME), Evanston, Madison, Minneapolis, Boston, and DC (and lots of other towns/states as well - I'm just highlighting ones I know to be near various readers of this journal).
(4a) Catching up on her 1 a.m. tweets. From August 11: "Oh, the muse thinks she's SO funny, giving me no help with lyrics, watching me thrash around, then suggesting that I try writing in Chinese." From this morning: "It's that time of night when the heart goes on the sleeve."
(5) AmyLu's spectacular matchcalling of yesterday's Roddick-Verdasco match (at the TennisWorld forum). A real treat.
(5a) While I'm not usually a fan of vicious criticism, I can't help being amused every time a Spanish player displays questionable judgment, thanks to two Spanish-born regulars on the board who have been reliably and entertainingly caustic about voicing their exasperation with said players. ("manuelsantanafan" on Ferrero and Monfils, two days ago: "A thimble could hold both their tennis brains combined and have plenty of room left over.")
(1a) More find-sparked poetry: Valerie Wohlfield's "Exhibitions," at poems.com.
(2) Had an unscheduled root canal yesterday. Feeling significantly better now, but I have two weeks' worth of not-sleeping-through-pain and near-constant nausea to recover from. Which means trusting in yet more of your patience as I continue deferring replies to comments/messages. (I'm getting to a few things here and there, but it's pretty random and my stamina's AWOL. I'm thinking of giving it an outright pass for the rest of the year - it keeps making noises about wanting to curl up in a cave somewhere in the Hebrides.)
(3) A pleasure: in this morning's New York Times, an op-art piece titled "Thirsting for Fountains": eight illustrators, eight cities, eight lists of fountain-goers.
(4) Vienna Teng's new tour schedule, which includes shows in Nashville, Knoxville, Louisville, Lexington (KY), Northhampton (MA), Bath (ME), Evanston, Madison, Minneapolis, Boston, and DC (and lots of other towns/states as well - I'm just highlighting ones I know to be near various readers of this journal).
(4a) Catching up on her 1 a.m. tweets. From August 11: "Oh, the muse thinks she's SO funny, giving me no help with lyrics, watching me thrash around, then suggesting that I try writing in Chinese." From this morning: "It's that time of night when the heart goes on the sleeve."
(5) AmyLu's spectacular matchcalling of yesterday's Roddick-Verdasco match (at the TennisWorld forum). A real treat.
(5a) While I'm not usually a fan of vicious criticism, I can't help being amused every time a Spanish player displays questionable judgment, thanks to two Spanish-born regulars on the board who have been reliably and entertainingly caustic about voicing their exasperation with said players. ("manuelsantanafan" on Ferrero and Monfils, two days ago: "A thimble could hold both their tennis brains combined and have plenty of room left over.")
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