Wholesome Summer |
Week One: Part One
So all the residents are slurping down root beer floats, which taste intensely sweet and fizzy after having swill...
Posted by Rob on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:10:00 PST |
Prairie |
Wednesday and back from Summer Art Camp. An exhausted episode of Little House on the Prairie sputters to it's predictable ending on the TV, which is fine by me, because I don't know if I could handle...
Posted by Rob on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:00:00 PST |
Frogs are to Louisiana as Fireflies are to Iowa |
June 5 It's true. Frogs are to Louisiana as Fireflies are to Iowa.It's been a while, so now I am back in Louisiana, listening to the cheerful waitress talk about some desert with a long description. S...
Posted by Rob on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:39:00 PST |
Winter |
Febuary 2008
There are three fast raps on my door and it's Brian, haggard and blurry looking, stubbled and hair and cold faced his dog and him standing on my por...
Posted by Rob on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:59:00 PST |
Thaw ( I am leaving tomorrow ) |
June 15 2008
Now I saw in my dream that, just as they had ended this talk, they drew near to a very miry slough that was in the midst of the plain; and they being heedless, did both fall suddenly int...
Posted by Rob on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:48:00 PST |
Keeping it Real on Fox TV |
Is it me, or is the latest Fox Television disaster, The Moment of Truth, a thinly disguised argument for water boarding?
For those who haven't seen it, The Moment of Tr...
Posted by Rob on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:34:00 PST |
Winter Candy |
I.
I want to unfold
No where do I want to remain folded
Because where I am bent and folded,
There I am a lie
Rainer Maria Rilke
II.
&n...
Posted by Rob on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:43:00 PST |
Past Future Present |
Ms. Starcher is the sort of name that sounds great, that sounds like it's made up, that sounds like a name belonging to some villain...
Posted by Rob on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:42:00 PST |
the kids are cool characters all right |
So I start teaching again on Jan 3, and am a little nervous about pulling it off. It's about comic books, and I have not taught this class before, but hey, it is three weeks, and I am hoping the stude...
Posted by Rob on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 05:48:00 PST |
Catholic-irific |
5 o'clock this morning, and the coffee is luke warm and the Lafayette television station is chirping the rosary away, first in English, and then in French.
They have two priests , one to lead the En...
Posted by Rob on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 10:04:00 PST |
