archives for Thursday 14 September 2006
from an epistle to mandarin
Thursday 14 September 2006 | I like a cookie
Darling!
So glad you have arrived well and safe, if bizhausted and bewildered as is the way with first days in strange countries. Of course probably by the time you get this you’ll have obtained a PhD in Cervantes, but I can only imagine how the first few hours went.
I myself have been incommunicado due to […]
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ann richards
Thursday 14 September 2006 | I like a cookie
The late former Texas governor spoke at my undergrad graduation (undergraduation?) and was half pungently funny, half hair-raising, as she was today, posthumously, on Democracy Now, which I never listen to and only encountered accidentally whilst resetting my car radio. But there she was, cracking up a bunch of Texas Observer writers by telling the […]
an email discussion of prosody
Thursday 14 September 2006 | I like a cookie
The Brujo: Rime royale sounds like a tequila/umbrella drink, a villanelle is probably a small evil woman, and a ghazal grazes the plains of Africa.
Unnarrator: Everybody knows that rime royale is a high-stakes casino game played in small European monarchies, villanelles are pastry filled with crème anglais and drizzled with chocolate, and a ghazal is […]
