The Boston in Me

The horrible events at this year’s Boston Marathon have put me in a melancholy mood, and I turned to MetaFilter to make better sense of the senseless tragedy. After reading the thousand-or-so comments that came before, I said (in...

Posted by mistersquid on April 15, 2013 10:05 PM

Obama Administration Warns About Using Information Devices Which Have Produced the Most Widely Distributed Publishing Platform in Human History

I really want this thing to work out with President Obama. He’s smart. He’s a constitutaional scholar. His adminstration has taken steps to advance the welfare of US citizens and the welfare of people worldwide. So I don’t get...

Posted by mistersquid on May 11, 2010 10:33 AM

Aphasia

I was going to wait to write something about David Foster Wallace’s death, but after reading Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s comment about him in the New York Times I understood that I have something to say now. She had said that DFW’s...

Posted by mistersquid on September 14, 2008 9:37 AM

Name Goes Here

November, last month, is the month where I write the least. Nothing intentional. It's just that my brooding character lends itself to contemplation in my month of nativity. All the big questions: who am I? Why are we here? Where...

Posted by mistersquid on December 2, 2007 9:49 AM

Help Me. I’m Evil.1

Jean Rollin. La Morte Vivante. (1982): 01:05:38 - 01:05:46 Clicking downloads a 1.8 MB file. Please be patient while the file loads Ctrl/Right-click here to “Save File As …” The above clip comes from a French film wherein the...

Posted by mistersquid on June 26, 2007 12:40 AM

Not No Renaissance Scholar

I’m overdue for a post, especially considering that two posts ago I made the silly error of taking “wherefore art” to mean “where are” as opposed to “why are.” The question Juliet asksO Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? (2.2.33)is,...

Posted by mistersquid on June 2, 2007 12:01 AM

Robert Frost’s “War Thoughts at Home”

Robert Stilling, a University of Virginia English Ph.D. candidate, has discovered a formerly unpublished poem by Robert Frost entitled ”War Thoughts at Home.” Stilling has written up the story of his find and the background of the poem in an...

Posted by mistersquid on October 2, 2006 12:22 AM