It’s all fun and games until. . .
This unbelievable X-ray from Surfactant comes to us via Street Anatomy.
Whoa.
Save this and show it to your kids next 4th of July, ok? (the culprit was a “homemade explosive device”).
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The Five Living Poets Challenge
Over at his blog, Jeff Prucher has challenged readers to think of five major LIVING poets. Can you do it? No cheating, no Googling, no looking at your bookshelf or New Yorkers! For verisimilitude, pretend Alex Trebek is staring smugly at you: doo DEE doo doo, doo DEE doo. . . Write down your answers, then see if you agree with mine (after the fold).
This was a little sad, since two poets I had the pleasure of hearing in person, whom I’d like to list, the charming Agha Shahid Ali and Stanley Kunitz, passed away recently.
Among living masters, Seamus Heaney plainly rules the roost (and would hold his own against the greatest dead poets, I’d wager). I can have only four others, so this list is biased: Louise Gluck, Jack Gilbert, Mary Oliver, Li-Young Li. Not necessarily the biggest names, but they’re the ones I want on my list of “major” (whatever that means) poets. Who would you choose?
4 comments October 31st, 2007
I’m intellectual AND sexy? Now that’s scary. . .
First, I need to thank Mo at Neurophilosophy for tagging me with the Intellectual Blogger award. I don’t feel very intellectual lately, but I guess he’s cutting me some slack based on past posts? I’d better pick up the pace, read those back issues of the New Yorker, and post some meaningful something before I’m retroactively stripped of my title. I’ll post my choices for the award tomorrow.
Apologies to everyone who has emailed, or linked me in the past few weeks - I know I’m not keeping up on my correspondence. I have about 10K unread posts on my RSS feeds, and I think I just have to give up and start over. It’s been crazy out here in DC. You may have recently seen the poll indicating that DC ranks 24th out of 25 major US cities for attractive people, which is the only possible reason why I won “sexiest costume” at a pub tonight. Yay Halloween! (I personally think there are attractive people out here - but then I like nice clothing, and people here dress well - though not creatively - versus, say, Seattle).
Finally, I need to add a shout out to the Witless Wanderer - a short time ago I had the pleasure of meeting her on her sojourn in DC. We took a “bloggers-in-real-life” photo, but I don’t have it here, so let me just thank her for an enjoyable lunch with her friend GuiGrl. We laughed a lot, which is the measure of good company.
2 comments October 31st, 2007