In just a few weeks, I’ll end my two-year stint of working from home and return to the daily grind of having a job that actually requires I *gasp* leave the house.
I couldn’t be more excited.
Not only because I get to re-assert the much-needed separation between work & life (although, ironically, my new job is [...]
In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police who investigate crimes and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders.
This is their FRT.
…a day early: I have to report @ 8.15a, and I just don’t function any earlier than that. And I can’t [...]
…so, I have to comment here on how much I love the idea behind his new blog, Stalking the Bard. I, too, embrace the most unoriginal sentiment of loving all things Shakespeare. In fact, when I visited Stratford-upon-Avon during the brief time I lived in England during college, I was so overcome that [...]
XTC vs. Adam Ant, They Might Be Giants
Feeling No Pain, Josh Rouse
Smell the Coffee, Joe Jack Talcum
Mighty Mighty, Earth Wind & Fire
Parabol, Tool
Tell Mama, Etta James
Space Dog, Tori Amos
Twilight, Josh Rouse
Don’t Cry, Guns N’ Roses
On a Plain, Nirvana
Bonus Track: Foolin’, Def Leppard
Yay!: 1, 2, 7, 9, 10, and obviously the bonus track (otherwise, [...]
Poetry Festival: A Celebration of New Jersey’s Literary Journals
Sunday, May 20, 2007, 1:00 – 5:00 PM
Hosted by: Diane Lockward
West Caldwell Public Library
30 Clinton Road
West Caldwell, New Jersey {Directions}
The event will feature 24 poets representing 12 different journals from throughout New Jersey, as well as a few immediate neighbors from across the river. I’ll [...]
Beginning April 28th, I’ll be teaching a 6-week course on Poetry as Memoir over at the Mt. Airy Learning Tree. How cool is that?!?
The course description & registration are up online now…. but here’s an overview:
Most of us have saved up stories-crazy things we did as kids, family legends and legacies, anecdotes about our [...]
Gentle Tourists,
To you I offer the following advice when visiting Philadelphia: skip the tour of Independence Hall.
No matter how “free” it is, it’s not worth the hour that you will spend waiting in line(s), going through “security” (ahem! my mace made it through totally unquestioned, I can’t even get into the Troc with [...]
Style Network is airing the most wonderful show — 50 Best Chick Flicks: Sex, Cries & Videotape, hosted by none other than Allie Sheedy & Molly Ringwald! It’s like watching all of my favorite movies without having to sit through all the boring parts.
This is perfect, “I’ve had too much to drink & I [...]
Dead, by They Might Be Giants
Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now), by Nine Inch Nails
The Scoop, by The Beastie Boys
It’s the Nighttime, by Josh Rouse
Buckingham Rabbit, by Silver Jews
Send in the Clouds, by Silver Jews (I *swear* this was totally random!)
Comin’ Under Fire, by Def Leppard
Falling for You, by Weezer
One of My Turns, by Pink [...]
I almost completely forgot it was Friday… but as soon as I realized, I cracked open a beer and put the ole itunes collection on shuffle.
Express Yourself, by Madonna
Overjoyed, by Magnet
The Boogie That Be, by The Black Eyed Peas
Love My Way, by the Psychedelic Furs
Wicked, by Ice Cube
Reflection, by Tool
Sister Christian, by Night Ranger (awww [...]
