Bad News I Have My Eye On

The headline from the Chronicle of Higher Education:
Utah State U. Press Is ‘Marked for Elimination’ Under Worst-Case Budget Scenario
The most chilling parts:
Mr. Spooner said that, except for the salary assistance, his press pays its own way. “We cover all costs of operations and publishing 20 books a year through sales income, permissions, donations, and our [...]

Some Last First Impressions

–Argh.  I did love Aretha and her hat was fabulous!
–I loved Elizabeth Alexander’s poem.  I didn’t think it was a great poem by any stretch, but I thought it was a perfect poem–the kind of poem people who aren’t all that into poetry can hear and get something from on that initial hearing.  I don’t [...]

The Thing on Watching With You

Driving in and listening to NPR and being excited about getting here and deciding which coverage I was going to tune into, I realized something.
Before today, I cannot remember a time in my life when the whole nation came together–hungry for news coverage, feeling that they had to be there or know someone who was [...]

Today

I’ll be watching from work.  And I am feeling kind of… I don’t know… frankly, still disbelieving.  I spent so much of the Bush years in disbelief, wondering if I was the only person who noticed that the government was being run by people who seemed either to believe that democracy and the opinion of [...]

Don’t Say I Never Gave You Nothing

Check here for some awesome music.
I’m really enjoying “Dead Flowers.”  I’m still not sure what I’m hearing on “This Little Light of Mine,” but I want the whole album.  (Didn’t see it at Amazon, though).  And I am falling over with delight at “Am I Demon,” though I realized sadly yesterday that I no longer [...]