Thursday Staff Meeting – The First E-Books Were Made Of Paper


Before the e-book there was…

Something for the entire family.

The value of a Harvard education.

Just give up and die already.

Happy Birthday, Debussy


Today is Claude Debussy’s 150th birthday! I was late coming to the party, so to speak, but I’ve become much of a fan of him and other French impressionist composers, mainly from actually hearing their music at small concerts, rather than dismissing out of hand.

Almost, But Not Quite


Today would have been Ray Bradbury’s ninety-second birthday. He came very close, but I can’t imagine he’s disappointed at what he accomplished.

I’ll have to re-read my favorite, A Sound of Thunder. My mother was a big Bradbury fan and gave me a collection of Bradbury stories featuring dinosaurs when I was child containing that one. And we’ll just pretend that heinous movie never, ever happened. I don’t even know what you’re talking about if you mention the movie. I may even have you committed to an institution on account of your crazy delusions.

Midweek Staff Meeting – Being Sorrowful


I have many of these.

I am less sanguine about the power of this technology to save.

Can’t buy coolness, my friend.

What would you do?

Fighting back against the hipster onslaught.


Tuesday Morning Staff Meeting – Things That Won’t Happen In America


Pensions for poets.

Your power turned back on in a timely fashion.

Mayors who recite poetry in ancient Greek in the classical tradition.

Not legally anyway (though I don’t know where I come down on this issue, myself).

Monday Morning Staff Meeting – Get Off Your Butt & Get The Paper


Or, just saying, you could walk outside and pick one up.

Between the two, or, poets brawl.

So what do I have to do to join?

Want to be a writer? Read the instructions first.

Weekend Reading – This Is Too Hard


The poets of Washington.

Makes my brain hurt.

Just buy a book from them, okay?

Your tool box.

The Poetry Hotel (coming soon – hopefully).

That bloody land.

Thursday Morning Staff Meeting – Keeping Your Word


Did science fiction break its promises to us?

Poets are the beholders of ideas and the announcers of human experience’s necessary and casual details.

Everybody’s saint.

Why be a nazi?

I’m feeling much better, thank you.

Midweek Staff Meeting – Back Talk


They don’t make ’em like they used to (intellectuals, that is).

Talking back to your voices.

Greatest damn thing about living in DC.

What Dungeons & Dragons character are you?