Archive for December 2006

Jesus likes chocolate

Thursday, December 28th, 2006

December food magazine covers usually feature artfully arranged cookies, guilting everyone into some type of baking production not seen during the remainder of the year.
Except in my mother’s kitchen, where the cookie production never ceases.

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Three Kings, or, The Holly and the Ivy

Sunday, December 24th, 2006

When my unnervingly intelligent roommate Ben and I decided to host a Solstice party, there were a few vexing questions: first, WWPE? (What Would Pagans Eat?) Second, what flowers were most appropriate? Third, how much mead had we in the pantry?

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Bringing braxy back

Sunday, December 10th, 2006

In October, I sent an email to my advanced modernist survey students asking them to select a few lines from one of the assigned Eavan Boland poems to explicate in class, with the further instructions that they were to choose lines that formed a coherent quotation they might conceivably post on an online profile. Towards [...]

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Broken social spambot scene

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

It feels good to get lost in your spam folder every once in a while. Lately, my folder has been full of silly spambot memes, and I took today’s batch to make a poem called steganography.

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