19 August 2008

To howl at the moon the whole night through

I got on my bike tonight — it’s 10 pm or so as I write this — and made the trip to Whole Foods, this time without being interrupted by Colossus the Monster Monsoon. It was a beautiful night, warm and sultry, a few clouds in the sky, distant lightning showing off to the northwest. [...]

19 August 2008

Beauty

I had this professor for Freshman Composition at the U of A, Dr. Davis. He was this hard-nosed, old-school, classic pre-postmodernism* kind of professor. Next to curmudgeon in the dictionary you’d find this guy’s picture. It was a small class, a one-semester affair for the bestest writers (or the best scammers of the system. Take [...]