It happened again, and once again, I missed it. I’m talking, of course, about the grass. About its greenness. About its growing-ness. Is there some kind of spray that gets pumped out overnight to cause this outlandish transformation from brown crusty winter-death to suddenly sprouting smelling life-stuff? England has Jack in the Green, the sprite [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Spring Broke
Posted in Light Thoughts, Writing on April 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Come out, come out, wherever you are…
Posted in Reading on April 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Nice premise by Jeff Gordinier: all you Gen X slackers, brooders, and disengagers, it’s time to encourage those boomers to move along, and show the misguided kids we’re done ignoring the entire world. I’m glad we have a spokesman; it’s been quiet since Kurt left.
Dyphemistic Phrase-ragery
Posted in Stuff, Writing on April 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Why does night fall? Why does day break? What is behind the phraseology that transmits such negative images about the change of light to dark?
Why can’t night infiltrate, susurrate, encompass, tip-toe, sweep in with a flurry of ebony scarves and drama-draped taffeta doppled with stars? Fall brings such disappointment, like we’ve pinned all our hopes on the [...]
