…more on the disappearance of newspapers
“…light out for the territory…” at berfrois!
“Examined Life”: Socrates on Ice; or, Engaged Life: Riding the Clutch with Today’s Philosophers
“Mkgnao! Mrkgnao! Mrkrgnao! Gurrhr!”
“Moonishnessly”: for Susan, Who’s Been Reading the Toads
“Penina’s Letters” at The Boulevard
“Penina’s Letters”: Hawthorne Fellows at The Attic Institute
“Politics and the English Language”
“The Works of Li Po The Chinese Poet: Done Into English Verse”
“What’s Happening?”; or, the Faux Social Finish of Verb People
|||||| * The Believer * Ninety-First Issue: The Music Issue * July/August 12 * ||||||
A Cat’s New Year’s Celebration
A Cat’s Prayer: Up to the Birds
A Different Brain: Reinventing Neuroscience from the Bottom Down
A Disambiguation of Living Alone
A Monstrous Metaphor Fished from Walden Pond
A New Lear; or, Daughter Dissed
A Portrait of the Plumber as a Poor Speller; or, Wrong Word
A Portrait of the Retiring Reader
A Sentence Pilloried in the Stocks
A Short Treatise on the Writing Virtues
A Sixth Way of Looking at Walden: Deliberately Seeking Simplicity
A Year From The Use and Misuse of English Grammar
AIG, APA and the Crashing of Institutions
Albert Camus on the Economic Collapse
All Stung Over By Links of Googled Grace
An Argument of Definition: A Definition of Argument; or, The Light Without the Light Within
An Invitation to Celebrate Bloomsday with Frank Delaney
An Unlikely Place to Find an Argument
And then went down to the book: Gloria Steinem’s The Beach Book
Annie Dillard’s The Writing Life
Anything Read: 4 by Peter Mayle
APA Caution: Metaphor Crossing
Apropos of Nothing Alphabet Primer
Arrangement in C Major for List of 14 Selected John Cage Titles
As You Like It: Rules for Writing
Back to “The One to One Future”: Permission Marketing and the 2011 S&P Market Coup
Back to School: An Interruption to Learning?
Back to the Futurism – What’s new in Poetryland: Flarf, Conceptual Writing, and Concrete Poetry
Baseball and the parts of speech
Baseball Drought Hits Northwest
Becker-Posner: fodder for rhetoric foragers
Becker, Posner, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Beehive Hairdo Bun Doodle; or, Tunnel Window
Berfrois Tuesday: Satisfactōrum
Beyond Yourself: Where the Poet Hides
Bicycling with Thoreau at Berfrois!
Binders Full of Women and a Pocketful of Moloch
Bio-Lego-Land: Building a Better Body thru Metaphor
Bless me critic, for I have read…
Blues Bus to the Blues Fest; or, The Blues Concert as Lecture Blog It As It Lays
Bob Dylan & Clarice Lispector: Bewildering, Transfigured, & Redeemed
Bob Dylan Knows in Singing the Highway Dust is All Over; or, The Tunes They are a-changin’
Books on Tee-Shirts: More on the Reading Crisis
Buckley and the hard work of writing
Bukowski for President! David Biespiel and Poets for Democracy
Caleb Crain and Becker-Posner Print Their Blogs
caMels, whEN to caPITalize, & concrEte POEMS
Camus and The Myth of Syllabus
Can Business Rescue the Humanities?
Casual Causality: Beyond Proximate Cause; or, The O-Ring Syndrome Revisited
Carpe diem the light flight of the Frisbee!
Cat Couple Vacation: A Photo Trip
Celebrating Earth Day at Berfrois!
Cheese Grilled with Sliced Banana Sandwich; or, A History of the World in 6 Innings
Clarice Lispector’s “Agua Viva”: Oyster, Rose, and Time
Comments to Flannery’s “Good Country People” Post
Common Earworm Remedies and the Mutant Earworm
Correcting, Grading, and Commenting: Right, Wrong, and Indifferent
Crain, Denby, Dylan and the Avatar of Health Care
Cuff Links, Tie Clips, and Semicolons
Culturomics and Google’s Ngram Viewer: More Noise?
Dancing with really real stars
David Brooks and How to Be a Better Person
David Brooks and The Plaque of Alienation; or, the Consciousness Bubble
Didi and Gogo Feted with Lifetime Achievement Award
Distance of First Person Plural
Dogo and Gidi: 9 Spoonerisms on Samuel Beckett
Don DeLillo’s “Point Omega”: alt novel
Double Consommé; or, the Doo-wop of the Tweet
Earth-Glass Half Empty or Fuller?: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
East Side Mt Tabor Photo Essay Walk
Eca de Queiros and a Metaphysical Googlelarity
Emily Post’s Rhetorical Garden: A Field of Claims, Evidence, and Warrants
Ending Net Asset Value; or, Hook up, hat up, and let go: “Calling Dr. Bartleby!”
E. O. Wilson’s Happy Ant in Mary Midgley’s Primate Picnic
Epizeuxis, epizeuxis, epizeuxis! in Thoreau’s Walden
Eric Sevareid, Italo Calvino, and NASA’s Watery Disappointment
Evergreen Review, Volume 1, Number 3, 1957
Every day is moving day on the Internet streets
Excerpt from a Conversation with Jean-Paul Sartre and B. F. Skinner
Fear and Loathing in Lexical Vegas
Fear of Writing: “After Midnight,” by Irmgard Keun
Find a New Year’s Resolution at Berfrois!
Flannery O’Connor and the Coen Brothers
Four Dubliners and a Scholar’s Mirror
Four Short Statements on the Sentence
Frank Delaney: The Last Storyteller
Free Parking at the Library of Congress
From a Buick 6 to a Luxury RV: Crazy Road
From Iran: “Don’t send me no more letters no,” not unless you Twitter them.
From the Gutenberg to a Gatesian Galaxy
Gaggle Me-Researcher Project Spilled on WankiLeaks
Gaston Bachelard’s book as shell
George V. Higgins’s On Writing
Get Your Chops Back: Good Writing and Bad
Global warming in The Great Gatsby
Good night, my some-corpus one
Grammar Hammer: Vertigo Swinging the Grammar Pickaxe
Grammar Shock: Person, Tense, Time, and Sense
Harold Bloom’s How to Read and Why
Health Care: Bringing It All Back Home
Hey, where did that Tweet go? Never-mind, check this out: Cat Twitter and Blog Beautiful
Honor and Shame: Born Again Off Maggie’s Farm
Hootenanny Revisited: Photo Essay of Old Songbooks
How Do Professors Think? More Crisis in the Humanities
How to Live Happily to 106: Happy Bloomsday, Mr. Leopold Bloom
How to Teach College Writing to Nonreaders
Hybrid Reading and “Sex and the vote”
In Twosome Twiminds: News from the Stroke Club – “Who are We?”
International Women’s Day, 2013
Into the valley of rejection rode the 850
It is told in sounds in Thoreau’s Walden
Ivan Illich, Education, and The Good Life
J. D. Salinger’s Advice to Adelia Moore: Write as a Child
James Joyce Occupies Wall Street
James Joyce on Writing: “write dangerously”
James Joyce’s Guitar Chord in the 1915 Ottocaro Weiss Photo
Jane Kramer tosses a toad to Montaigne
Janet Groth’s The Receptionist: A Reflection
Jeeves and Bertie Wooster in Facebookland
Jesus and the Jazz of Being Existential
John Cage and Attitudes Toward Reading Today
John Cage, Cowboy Surf Shop, and Garage Jazz
Joyce’s agenbite of books and boots
Kicking E. B. White When He’s Down
Kierkegaard: A Good Self is Hard to Find
Lady Gaga Sitting Cross-legged on Her Gomden
Leslie Fiedler and the Either/Or Fallacy of Poetic Criticism
Lord I’m 500 words away from home
Losing Forrester Behind the Window
Mapping a Reading of Thoreau’s Walden
Max Shulman’s “Love is a Fallacy”
Me epistle on “Moopetsi meepotsi”
Memorialized in Memo; or, where what we purpose proposes to parody
Menand’s Meandering PhDs; UFOs; and Joyce’s Jejune Jesuits
Montaigne: The First Blogger; or, Nick Hornby’s Surprise
More on reading influences and touching again on the reading crisis
n+1 clips The Believer’s sneakers
Neuroscepticism: Exploring the Dark Matter of the Brain
New Excerpt from “Penina’s Letters” at the Boulevard
New Outbreak of Grammar Influenza
Nicholson Baker, Nicholas Carr, and Googling Clothespins
Notes on Experience, Story, and Voice
Not the Rubric Itself, but Ideas about the Rubric
Now is the Science of our Discontent: E. O. Wilson and the Sacrifice of Science
Now Playing at Plato’s Cave: “The Reel World”
“Off with their heads!” Rhetorical Images of Heads of States
Ocean Surfing Photos From the Late 1960′s
On Another Modest Proposal; or, Twitters with the Editors
On Downgrades and Grades; or, Dude, Score Thyself
On Shoes: A Barefoot Existentialism
On The New Yorker On Twitter; or, Drink, Memory
On The New Yorker On Twitter; or, Drink, Memory
On the Noise of Argument, where John Cage meets Seneca; or, There is No Silence – Bound to Sound
On the Trail of Diaper Fish Wraps and Hot Hot Dogs
On Universe: A Conversation Between Thoreau and Bucky
Online # 2: Laptop Notes From Underground
Opening the Patient in Open Access Week; or, the Great Research Hoax
Our 2007 Believer Book Award Choices
Our 2008 Believer Book Award Choices
Our 2009 Believer Book Award Choices
Peccadilloes; or, The School of No Sestina
Piracy off the Coast of Gramarye
Plato was a Neuroscientist, too; or, Plato’s Purple Haze
Plato, Pablo, and the Poetics of Health Care
Plumbing & Writing: A Review of the Literature (at the Toads)
Poetry, Politics, and the Mail; or, Fishing Without a License
Private Music, Public Music: Vandals Trash Kumbaya – Is Music Making Us Stupid?
Problems, Inventions, and Implications
Progress Report: Our Disappearing World
Rap Phonics Rhapsody: Eating the Alphabet and Spitting it Out
Reading declines, unobtrusively
Reading Directions for Thoreau’s Walden
Reading Roland Barthes’s Writing Degree Zero on Line 15
Recommended On-line Reading: “Chick Blogs”
Remembrance of Things Past: or, The Card Catalog – ACCESS CLOSED!
Rolling Stone’s 50 Reasons to Watch TV
Rothko at the Portland Art Museum
Ruth Reichl Comforts with Apples, Beckett with Words
Samuel Beckett’s “Molloy” p. 161
Satisfactus: “Charlie is My Darling”
Say what you see (look-and-say) sequences
Schopenhauer’s Blues; or, On Jazz & Folk Music, from Hoedown to Hootenanny: A Happening Post
Sea Monsters in A. C. Grayling’s Secular Bible; or, Humanity’s Greatest Endeavor
Shakespeare of Main Street: How We Should Teach English
Sister Mary Annette and Shakespeare’s Ambiguous Advice
Sister Maryquill’s Style Guide: An APA/MLA etc. Primer
Skylark, have you anything to say to Billy Collins?
Small Wave Riders 2009 anuual surf trip video
SMP: Sine Mascula Prole – Preparatory to Bloomsday
Solstice Sestina: Whiteout on the Whiteboard in Winter
Solving the Texas Textbook Massacre, Scandal, and Mystery
Special Host Spring Yard Photo Post
Spring Reading List: The Double Dream of Baseball
Styled Obsolescence: New Editions for APA and MLA
Sunset photo, Kodachrome slide, around 1970
Super Bowl Debriefing: Understanding Games and TV Tribal Culture
Surf Noir: “The Tribes of Palos Verdes”
Susan Sontag and a Valentine for Flannery O’Connor
Taking the facebook Pledge; or, The Allegory of the facebook Cave
Targeting the Philistines: The Diversion of Literature and Disease of Criticism
The Anxiety of Imaginary Literature
The Art, Woe, Slop, and Toe of the Book Review
The Bare Bodkin of the English Major
The Elite and the Effete: From Access to Egress
The Eutobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Glass Guitar Ceiling: Rolling Stone’s “The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time”
The Happy Humanists of Main Street (a Fragment)
The I Ching (Book of Changes); or, where one should not try to be all-knowing
The Idea of Self-Portrait Writing, or A Portrait of the Writer as Reader
The Myth of Adolescence: James Woods on Jean-Christophe Valtat
The Phrenological Slope of the Post
The Postman Always Rings Twice, the Plumber Rarely More Than Once
The Retiring and Re-tiering Posner
The Rubrish of Poetry: Taming the Beast; or, Crossing the Rubric-con
The Sick Roses of Suburbia and the Epiphany of a Picture
The Toads Goes to The Movies: “Moneyball”
The Toads Transfigured at berfrois!
The Twitterers (after Walter De La Mare’s “The Listeners”)
The Value of Time and Pressure
The Way We Don’t Age Now: Unhappiness and Hunger in the Land of Plenty
The weightlessness of existentialism
Theo Jansen and Advanced “Avatar”
Theodore Dreiser and Flannery O’Connor were Neuroscientists, too
Theory of nothing, something, and everything in between
This is Portland for Christmas
Thoreau’s Meanly Men and Manly Ants
To the Reader Staring at a Paywall
To Whom It May Concern: An Invitation to Silence and Composition
Transition: From Walled-in with Thoreau to Take-off with Buckminster Fuller
Trilling’s “The Meaning of a Literary Idea”; or, the Essay as Argument: Why The Research
Two Poems for Christmas and the Feast of the Epiphany
Unpacking the Aphorism to Pull Out the Pith
Unmoving Literary Works; or, Needs Editing, “Ha Ha Ha”
Update on the Universe; or, Where we “canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth”
Virginia Woolf’s uncommon reader
Walden: From “The Pond in Winter” to “Spring”
Wall Street Journal Springs Honorifics from Sports – Cut in Pay?
Wallace Stegner’s On Teaching and Writing Fiction
Walt Whitman, McTeague, and We Go to the Movies
Waltzing with a Loon to the Tune of a Whippoorwill
We Ain’t Gonna Wait In Maggie’s Line No More
What Should We Keep? The R. Buckminster Fuller Archive
What some others have said about Thoreau’s Walden
What we will miss when newspapers disappear
When we read and write, we argue
Where Crossan’s historical meets Beckett’s hysterical Jesus
Where Dylan Thomas meets Atul Gawande; or, Let Go Gently, for Here Comes the Night
Where Everyone is a Writer and a Reader
Where Flannery O’Connor meets Julia Roberts on Late Night Talk Shows
Where jazz and literature get encaged
Where John Cage Lip-synchs with Lloyd Thaxton while Playing Guitar Hero
Where Listening Gives Rise to Silence and Fizzles
Where Marilyn Monroe meets Helmut Schmidt in a field of Mellow Yellow
Where Michael Kinsley Meets William Faulkner; or, The Beat Goes On
Where Pascal metaphorically wagering meets Borges bird-watching
Where Pigs Sing: “Pigsong,” by Frank Delaney
Where readers eSurface but authors lose control
Where Richard Rodgriguez meets Bartleby, the Scrivener
Where Sarah Palin Meets Andy Warhol
Where the Palace of Wisdom is Loaded with Vice
Where we Freak Out! and blame it on the cat
Where we go from Greil Marcus to Humpty Dumpty
Where weather and writing merge
Where Winston Churchill meets Roddy Doyle; or, the Library is not a Zoo
Winter is icummen in, Lhude sing Line 15
Women Under the Glass Ceiling: Parity and Power in the Pipeline
Writing and its Discontents: Lady Gaga to Replace McChrystal
Writing and the Wickets of Croquet
Yet More on the Disappearance of Newspapers; or, Welcome to Spring Training!
