April 2011
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30 Day Poetry Challenge, Day 13
Day 13: A guilty pleasure.
“Acquainted with the Night.” Robert Frost.
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30 Day Poetry Challenge, Day 12.
Day 12: A poem by your least favorite writer.
“Daddy.” Sylvia Plath
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Wishful Thinking: Headlines that Change the...
“Dick Cheney Accidentally Shoots Friend in Face while Hunting Quayle.”
I look forward to working for you, The Onion.
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Sometimes I feel I've got to...get away.
You all know Soft Cell’s “Tainted Love,” right?
Well just in case you don’t, here’s the music video.
Okay, here’s the thing. My mom and I have this thing where whenever we hear this song while we’re in the car, we use the car horn to “sing” the DUN DUNs.
So yesterday I was driving back from dinner with some friends when this song came on...
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30 Day Poetry Challenge, Day 11.
Day 11: A poem by your favorite writer.
Sonnet 116: “Let me not to the marriage of two minds.” William Shakespeare.
Not even lying, he actually is my favorite writer.
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30 Day Poetry Challenge, Day 10.
Day 10: A poem by someone you know.
“Poem for the Man Who Does Not Answer the Phone.” Melanie Almeder
A note before I post this poem - Melanie is one of the most wonderful and beautiful people I have ever met, and I am extremely grateful that I had the opportunity to study literature and write poetry with her at Roanoke College and I will always treasure what she taught me in four...
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30 Day Poetry Challenge, Day 9.
Day 9: A poem with your favorite character.
“Ozymandias.” Percy Bysshe Shelley
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30 Day Poetry Challenge, Day 8.
Day 8: The poem you can quote best.
“The Second Coming.” William Butler Yeats.
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30 Day Poetry Challenge, Day 7.
Day 7: A poem that reminds you of your past.
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Parts I-III
Parts VI and V
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“I’m glad you conceded that literary history is important.”
– - Whiteside, in response to my response to the entirety of Seminar.
Earlier in the year, I argued that only the works that evoked the emotion of modern audiences was important.
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30 Day Poetry Challenge, Day 6.
Day 6: A poem that reminds you of somewhere.
Buddha in Glory. Rainer Maria Rilke.
Buddha in Glory
Center of all centers, core of cores, almond self-enclosed, and growing sweet— all this universe, to the furthest stars all beyond them, is your flesh, your fruit. Now you feel how nothing clings to you; your vast shell reaches into endless space, and there the rich, thick fluids rise and...
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30 Day Poetry Challenge, Day 4.
Day 4: A poem you read to feel down.
“One Art.” Elizabeth Bishop.
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“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the...”
– — Aldous Huxley (Brave New World)
After spending weeks doing literary analysis on this book, I’ve decided it’s one of the greatest things ever written and I love it to death.
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30 Day Poetry Challenge, Day 3.
Day 3: A poem you read to feel good.
“I’m a Modern Man.” George Carlin.
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30 Day Poetry Challenge, Day 2.
Day 2: Your least favorite poem.
“The Red Wheelbarrow” William Carlos Williams.
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30 Day Poetry Challenge, Day 1.
Day 1: Your Favorite Poem.
“The United Fruit Co.” Pablo Neruda.
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I Can Try to Get Out of It
I have to go to a lecture for class.
But we've had these tickets for MONTHS! You love Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
It's my class, and I made a promise.
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I don't care if I ever go back
“A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz.” Humphrey Bogart
With 25 days left in my undergraduate career, I’ve come to the conclusion that I just don’t give a shit anymore. To emphasize that point, I have two papers due by this Saturday and a major exam in two parts on Monday and Wednesday of next week. Rather than write either of those papers or...
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Examiner.Com Beer Pairing - The Garlic and Onion... →
This is my first article as a “Beer Pairing Examiner” on Examiner.Com. I’m breaking through into the widely underrated food-and-booze branch of somewhat-journalism.
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Monsanto
everyone knows farmers need proper alien protocol manuals
right!? you'd think. It's like - Monsanto: "here are your soybean seeds...and your alien handbook. Have fun." Farmer: "uhhh k."
I bet the farmers are more confused about the troll in the suit giving them magic beans.
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Friendship.
and now I'm going to DIE DIE DIE DIE
Okay, slow it down there, Bottom.
Guh.
If we were on the Oregon Trail I'd give you ipecac and rest thee days.
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Kamikaze
Jerry was a funny man. Jerry liked drinking, hugs, and vintage vinyl. He was a man who just wanted to seem non-threatening, but he had a face that would instantly start a fight. Jerry was a misogynist, but in a charming sort of way. Maybe because he was an existentialist. He believed in music and human failure. Jerry liked face - especially new ones. He admired Johnny Cash because he’d been...
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Unappreciated
Shoelaces.
Plastic cutlery at a summer cookout.
Open fields where stars you can’t see in the city show up.
Silly walks.
Hawaiian shirts.
Ticket stubs.
Clothespins.
The janitor’s mop bucket.
The bowl of starlight mints next to a diner’s cash register.
Mornings that are just warm enough to still be chilly.
Clean socks.
Impromptu musical numbers.
A dog-eared copy of your grandfather’s TV...
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