Rhodingeedaddee

capturing transient transcendence

2009-08-14T18:26:00.004-05:00

        
                                           
                                          
Consider what the best poems do.  Are they not ways                       
of capturing transient transcendence?  Here via   
another medium is a vivid display of this: Sunrise
by William Michaelian.                                     
                                                            
                                                        
                                              
                                                       
                                                       
rho00369

warnings

2009-08-02T21:20:00.001-05:00


                                     
                                         
                                           
This poet is dead.  So don't cross him.               
                                                 
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Don't remember when the last time was I got         
a full night's rest.  These days/ approximately     
every hour my sleep breaks because I have to         
go pee in the pot.                                     
                                                     
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In spite of what I and my doctor are doing              
to prevent it, I have a feeling my bones are         
turning to dust.                                   
                                             
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This afternoon while sitting in a chair in         
the livingroom I told Janice's alien doll        
which I have standing in a nearby rocker:          
I think the end is near.  I then noticed    
tears welling.                                   
                                           
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Am considering posting all my poems and  
related works at Sprintedon Migrasaurus    
one per post in this blog.  I know many   
are of no value, but I care not.  If 6  
or less are worth saving, the effort I  
expended was worth it.                   
                                        
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A flea bite from a flea I killed last   
night has suddenly spread and become   
worse.  I put some triple antibiotic  
ointment on it.                            
                                      
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And what about the swine flu expected  
to be in this country in October?               
                                       
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Should you be in need of some ways to ruin   
your life/ I have a few.                     
                                         
                                         
                                             
                                           
                                           
                                          
rho00368

What Coleridge Thought

2009-08-01T11:33:00.002-05:00

          
                                        
                                   
(1971) is a precise and therefore complex book      
written by Owen Barfield.  I have not read the 
entire book but the following from pages 127   
and 128 are encapsulations that might entice                
you to learn more.  [Note: Wikipedia says this   
Owen Barfield entry is in need of citations  
but don't let that stop you from reading it.]
                                                 
Reason                                          
Imagination                                     
Understanding                                        
----------------                                
Understanding                                        
Fancy                                        
Sense                                                 
                                                    
Reason (as "the source and birthplace of ideas")
Idea                                              
Law                                               
--------                                         
Law                                                
Theory                                             
Sense                                              
                                                      
                                                      
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 
                                                   
rho00367

visit with dermatologist positive

2009-07-31T17:22:00.003-05:00

                  
                                         
                                              
My legs are improving. Dermatologist has reduced my
need for four daily applications of Triamcinolone to  
two daily.  For that I am thankful as the routine I
must use is time-consuming and somewhat difficult.  
Will be on the antibiotic medicine for another week.
Am to visit him again next Friday.                  
                                                   
                                                     
                                                                  
                                                      
                                                              
                                                     
rho00366

autobio notes

2009-07-29T16:11:00.002-05:00

              
                                               
                                         
Yesterday I searched through my Seminary poems and    
determined every poem there was trash.  Without a  
doubt I was grievously askew spiritually during my
year-and-a-half at that Jesuit school.  Conflicts   
in my soul I should have come to terms with while  
I was in high school intensified my misguided fervor  
and most of the poems I wrote were ruined by it, to   
say nothing of my technical inadequacies.            
                                                      
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My local sister bought a pair of jeans shorts, and 
when I tried them on today I found I needed to roll
them up some, but I also found I no longer needed  
to use the towel I was using over my legs so that 
my keyboard would be high enough for its right end  
to rest on the mouse pad on the stool to my right.   
Thus, I now have that towel on top of the towel I  
have been using on the table between where I sit    
and where my monitor is atop the desk.  Surely my  
feet are now elevated high enough.  I may not get   
to heaven but my feet will.                              
                                                   
                                                    
                                                    
                                                   
                                                 
                                                    
                                                 
rho00365

Have been feeling oddly empty

2009-07-26T16:43:00.001-05:00

                      
                                                
                                           
recently.  Am unable to determine why, but have some   
guesses; however, let's just say my psyche is in the   
horse latitudes and/or the horse latitudes are in it.
Here is a little something I wrote two days ago:                    
                                                        
Others                                                
                                                    
There are a million voices out there,              
and they all keep changing:           
clippity, clippity,                    
chug, chug,                           
bitter as butterflies.                                
                                                     
----------------------------------------          
                                                      
Received another prize-winning book from                  
the Academy of American Poets.  Am reading it.  That   
is, I was reading it.  Perhaps I'm totally out-of-sync  
with the variant new ways of writing even though some  
of those ways I have used in my writing.  In any case,   
next to nothing is exciting me, not even Fanny Howe or  
Franz Wright.  There's an old song I one day tried to   
track down, something about "and the days go by" is in  
its chorus.  Have it in my head it's a song by Devo; so    
am going to try a Devo songs search.  Have grown tired   
of my minimal song lyrics, but an autobio project which   
is not yet ready to continue posting awaits/ and poems  
to be added to Scatterings which are in nearby folders.   
It's just hard these days.                            
                                                        
                                                      
                                                           
                                                     
                                                        
                                                        
                                                       
rho00364

Thinking Lizard revisited

2009-07-24T22:07:00.001-05:00

                       
                                          
                                        
As I remember it, I invented Thinking Lizard
(the icon and the press) and the pen name of    
Alden St. Cloud in 1979.  In 1980 I published   
in the cassette medium and registered with    
The Library of Congress 1976 (the 366   
sonnets and 12 reflections version), Postures,
and Fond du Lac; and in 1981, I believe,  
Rooted Sky.  I no longer have saleable   
copies of these.  In 1982 in Austin, Texas, I
published as a paperback, First Pick, a 
selection which included some poems that were
previously unpublished.  I also registered it
with The Library of Congress.  I have a mockup
of it, but I have dismantled this book.  Soon
thereafter I let Alden St. Cloud die.              
                                                   
Thinking Lizard remains a viable press, but I  
would need to update its ISBN system.  The point
of this rehash is that I self-published books  
of my poems.  Those events are precursors to  
what I have since done online, especially at   
Sprintedon Migrasaurus (thinkinglizard.b---), 
and to what I hope to do in the future: make   
all my books of poems available for free in   
PDF.  As it is, I am not selling any of my poems.    
You are welcome to browse through, and if  
you encounter one you like, link to it or  
display it on your web site.  Heck, you can  
even do that with one you think is horrid.    
                                             
                                           
                                           
                                               
                                     
                                                 
rho00363

Metarealism Hyperrealism and Transcendence

2009-07-22T09:55:00.008-05:00

             
                                                   
                                                     
On May 30, 2009, Seth Abramson, having read Mikhail Epstein  
on Russian Metarealism and Conceptualism, realized to his   
surprise and chagrin that he was an American Metarealist.
On that same date J J Gallaher commented beneath Seth's         
post and made a post on his own blog wherein that for him     
Conceptualism would be more fun.  He had been interested   
in Hyperrealism in painting.  Epstein saw the two he wrote  
about as opposites with all others somewhere between them.    
                                                            
In painting, metarealism involves depicting a mood while    
hyperrealism's goal is to equal the level of perfection     
reached by digital photography.                                
                                                          
If you allow a broad secular definition of transcendence,    
all artists ((musicians, painters, sculptors, architects,    
dancers, poets, and similar others) of whatever persuasion  
and in whatever medium)) strive for transcendence, a reaching 
beyond.                                                      
                                                              
Among the results of a Google metarealism search are:       
Wikipedia introduction
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Tendreams introduction
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a Google Books result                                             
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Abramson's post                                        
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Gallaher's post                                                     
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One result a Google hyperrealism search garners is:              
Wikipedia introduction
                                                
                                                 
                                               
                                                
                                                 
                                                    
rho00362

Body challenges have taken over

2009-07-20T10:32:00.002-05:00

  
                                       
                                     
with some being temporary.                            
                                                 
Trying to keep my legs elevated is permanent       
and I have been innovating toward that end.     
Fortuitously, the furnishings I have for my    
computer equipment are nearly perfect aids:     
the 30-inches tall desk my monitor is now on,
the 22-inches tall table partially under that   
desk on which are my modem and a towel folded   
so it is two inches high for the heels of my
feet, the stool which is 23-inches tall and is    
being used for my mouse and the right end of   
my keyboard, the folding chair I am seated on  
with a cushion beneath my rear and a cushion   
behind my back, the glasses I wear which are
set for viewing my monitor which I have for   
some years had three feet from where I type.
My keyboard is on a towel I've folded which  
is over my upper legs.  Am having to use a   
yard stick to turn my computer and monitor on.
Will try to improve on this, but for now it will    
have to do.  
                            
                                           
                                               
                                                
                                                   
                                               
rho00361

Why Am I Online

2009-07-15T18:23:00.001-05:00

     
                                             
                                                    
is a question I have asked and answered often.           
The Internet is my house of learning.  That is   
my common response.  And while I'll never even   
scratch the surface of what I would learn, no  
further response is needed.  However, there are
deeper reasons.                                 
                                                    
I used to be out and about easily, but that ended      
in mid-January of 2003.  It doesn't matter that   
by current standards I am still a young man.  So    
I am a hermit, but not a true hermit.  It isn't in
me.  Yet, even if I made no contacts with other   
humans, being online would suffice because I think   
it would be enough to alleviate my loneliness.         
                                                      
An early post of what was my last AOL journal is   
a note about Frederick Seidel.  Due to a recent   
comment by Michael Robbins beneath a Harriet post,   
I have been learning more about this American   
poet.  If you do a Frederick Seidel 2009 search
via Google and choose the Google books result,   
you can potentially read many of his poems.  I    
read, among others, "The War of the Worlds" and  
found I liked it mainly because of his straight-
on yet imaginative way of engaging a difficult  
topic.  Three reviews worth reading are Sarah  
Crown's "Chronicle of excess", Adam Kirsch's    
"The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", and this   
one by Wyatt Mason in which he writes          
". . .the cultural definition of what a poem is: 
a thing that wakes us, shakes us, moves us,   
and pays equal attention to the details of    
living and the art of poetry."
                                                     
Therefore, God willing, I intend to be an online
human in spite of the varying technical challenges.             
                                                    
                                                   
                                                     
                                                    
                                                       
                                                       
rh00360

It is my life

2009-07-09T16:47:00.001-05:00

         
                                       
                                         
and I can live it destructively and I can live it
constructively and anywhere inbetween, and I have.
                                                     
For a long time my opinion of myself has been:  I
am not right.  As much as I do not want to--though
sometimes (as the evidence shows) it seems I must  
want to, I too consistently have made poor choices.
Had I had the vision, I would have lived both as     
I chose and as I did not choose.  Have been a Brian
and an anti-Brian.  
Examples: 
1. As a writer I would have been both reclusive   
      and highly visible.                          
2. As a purchaser of stocks, I would have traded
      aggressively and invested judiciously in
      growth stocks.                             
3. As a general consumer I would have allowed     
      myself some excesses but would have found  
      a residence I intended to remain in.             
4. As a mind/body being I would not have favored  
      my mind over my body.                          
                                                     
There's a current body story I am tempted to share
but a voice within says:  Don't.  Share it with   
your doctors.                                       
                                                     
As some of you know, my life here in Missouri is   
one of greater isolation than it was in Florida.     
This is not to say I can't make it less so, but   
I am more limited.  Other blogger's write about  
books and journals they are purchasing or have 
received and about what they're reading out of     
their extensive libraries.  I have a library, but   
little in it is contemporary, and presently my  
days are heavy with other concerns.  Actually, I
maybe shouldn't have a blog.  Does it seem I'm  
confused?  I am.  However, it isn't just isolation,   
it's my lack of pertinent knowledge.  It's my 
inability to keep up.  So much of my time is spent       
visiting blogs and making my often difficult-to-   
compose comments.  Besides, that I do not have a
defined agenda to push as do certain bloggers in 
that I do not belong to a coterie and am not bound   
to a specific style makes me less interesting on  
the face of it.                                       
                                                    
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Am at the second chapter on Imagination and Fancy         
in Owen Barfield's What Coleridge Thought, and at        
the end of the first chapter Barfield presented   
the passage in which Coleridge defined the Primary
and Secondary Imaginations.  Barfield had stated   
Coleridge was at odds with most thinkers--oriented
as they were toward scientific rationality--of his    
time.  Thus, as I suspected, Coleridge assigned    
the Primary Imagination to the ". . . infinite I Am."
This puts me in line with Coleridge.                     
                                                        
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Events of late have been signalling to me I am in         
my last days.  Yet there's no way of knowing.  I  
could concentrate my weakened energies.  Fanny Howe
and Franz Wright?  St. John of the Cross?  The Age  
of Pisces is in its last days.  Even so, it may be     
more than 300 years before the Age of Aquarius fully
takes over, which some say St. Germain will rule.  
Others are expecting a new reign of Jesus and 1000
years of peace.  Barring more miracles, I'm expecting
to be dead.  The Dow had a lackluster day.  Read that
President Obama said the government won't get into    
healthcare insuring unless Congress can figure out   
how to pay for it.  GM is getting a second chance. 
They ought to help revitalize the railroads.  For me
tomorrow means another trip to my GP's office.        
                                                      
Just remember: a good poem is one you like, even if  
you don't know why.                                 
                                                    
                                                    
                                                       
                                                      
                                                   
rh00359

Acacia

2009-07-08T09:06:00.000-05:00

            
                                        
                                     
is an ingredient in the Unna's Boot product I purchased   
yesterday at a medical supply business within walking  
distance of where I live should I ever be determined   
enough to walk there.  According to the massive entry   
at Wikipedia there are 1300 Acacia species.
                                              
                                                
                                                
                                             
                                              
bl00358

2000-03-17

2009-07-02T21:08:00.003-05:00


                                     
                                  
was the date I became an AOL member.             
Today, after spending days clearing   
out and moving and/or deleting what          
was being held at my Thinking lizard  
email location at AOL, I deleted t l.
Later I submitted a completed formal
electronic AOL membership cancellation.       
                                         
                                          
                                           
                                           
bl00357

from Romanticism to Materialism

2009-06-22T22:08:00.002-05:00

          
                                        
                                        
is not an idea I would have thought of, but is one I
think is worth pondering.  When I encountered it, I  
immediately thought of William Wordsworth and Ralph   
Waldo Emerson and William Carlos Williams with their:
"The world is too much with us"; "Things are in the   
saddle"; "No ideas but in things."  Could most poets  
alive during the rise of Industrialism be considered  
Materialists in spite of whatever intellectual and/or
spiritual values they held?  In spite of their poetic   
and/or aesthetic positions?  A step back to take in      
how thoroughly things--especially those "practical"  
things which by our ingenuities we humans have made   
and continue to make--have captivated us/ definitely  
promotes this idea.  See                               
                                                     
William Wordsworth
                                                            
Ralph Waldo Emerson  
                                                                
William Carlos Williams                                 
                                                     
but also see                                          
                                                   
Samuel Taylor Coleridge                                     
                                                          
                                                     
and then go to this Joshua Corey post:                    
                                                
6/18     
                                              
It is his idea, and it seems to have arisen out of his    
thoughts about Ammons, whose works he has been   
reading; and out of his concurrent thoughts about Ashbery.    
This post is heavy with conclusions I, for one, had never   
entertained.  However, if his general thesis is accepted,
most schools of poets since the Romantics could easily    
be Materialists.                                         
                                                          
                                                       
                                                        
                                                      
                                                        
                                                       
bl00356

This Summer Solstice Father's Day

2009-06-21T17:33:00.001-05:00

        
                                  
                                       
is a day of new beginnings for me.  In the physical
progenitorial sense, I am not a father, and it is   
doubtful I ever will be or even want to be.  What  
then?  Sometimes how one sees one's spirit becomes   
reflected in one's body.  Even though I have been   
forgiven, I had let my outer body gather the dust   
and dirt of years.  Today, partly as the result of  
my new GP's insistence, I began the move toward the   
proper care of that organ.  Am also in the process   
of making more changes toward the betterment of my    
inner body since she gave me permission to do that  
which I thought I ought not do.  Are you enjoying   
my post-avant indirectness?  If you are not, you    
need to get with it as I can't promise anything.   
It's all in the flow, and I cannot know how that   
flow will go.  Yes, I do already feel better but   
the road ahead is long and treacherous.  Those  
of you who are fathers, I hope this day has been,
and continues to be, kind to you.                          
                                                       
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Ditched at last my old home page and made Google   
my home page.  Google is a spider you know, and   
we authors are arcane delicacies.                    
                                                   
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Have upped my water intake, mostly by diluting       
my nutrition drinks more.                      
                                                
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J J Gallaher posted a rant against accessible poetry   
which is drawing rebuttals from recent commentors at  
Poetry Foundation's Harriet--am really not certain,
it may be from only one commentor at PFH.  If it isn't   
difficult it is isn't art, JJ contendeth.  Bet you can't  
find where I hid the egg.                               
                                                      
                                                    
                                                      
                                                     
                                                     
                                                   
bl00355

Kyphotic Hermit pause

2009-06-20T16:01:00.001-05:00

           
                                     
                                             
which may become permanent.  32 posts are at         
Kyphotic Hermit.  Here is a link list:              
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1.                                              
Y      
2.                                           
sort of an intro                        
3.                                                   
doing time at iowa                            
4.                                                       
Julia Vinograd                              
5.                                                
aesthetic openness               
6.                                                   
poem reading                                         
7.                                                
Mr. Reginald Shepherd                         
8.                                                    
somewhat likeable but inconsequential        
9.                                               
my routine for visiting blogs         
10.                                                           
poets are conduits                                 
11.                                                  
sullen grey                                     
12.                                                 
i cannot be consoled                             
13.                                                   
sometimes i think                                        
14.                                                    
disheveled life                                          
15.                                              
in remembrance                                 
16.                                                            
theme variation              
17.                                                    
i cant stand being human                         
18.                                                 
K. Silem Mohammad on Flarf               
19.                                                      
James Wright, James Wright, Robert Bly    
20.                                                       
Denise Low's Blog                                   
21.                                                     
their conversation continues         
22.                                                
twenty influences on my writing     
23.                                                    
toward morning while                 
24.                                                     
cover scans plus five poems                                
25.                                                
post-industrial world and poetry    
26.                                                 
John Latta post for today           
27.                                               
Stephen Burt Elliptical          
28.                                                   
regarding Burt's New Thing          
29.                                                 
coteries, categories, individuals
30.                                                    
ragged publication list              
31.                                               
Eliot, O'Hara, Radiohead connection           
32.                                             
Brands by Dave Oliphant          
                                                    
                                                 
                                                    
                                                    
                                                     
                                                   
                                                   
bl00354

Reading book by Owen Barfield 2

2009-06-18T08:00:00.001-05:00

         
                                           
                                          
See bl00343 May 22, 2009.                     
                                               
From chapter VIII  The Making of Meaning (II)        
p. 138  [6]                                         
    When we start explaining the language of
  famous scientists as examples of 'poetic   
  diction', it may well seem that the ordinary
  meaning of that literary phrase has been     
  inflated beyond the bounds of reason.  Never-       
  theless such an extension was necessary, in   
  order to make clear its real nature.  Nor    
  has it been waste of time, if it has convinced    
  a single person who needed convincing,
  how essentially parochial is the fashionable  
  distinction between Poetry and Science as    
  modes of experience.                          
    . . . the rational principle must be         
  strongly developed in the great poet.         
-                                              
p. 139  [6]                                    
  If the poetic is unduly ascendant, behold  
  the mystic or the madman, unable to grasp   
  the reality of percepts at all--being still   
  resting, as it were, in the bosom of gods   
  or demons--not yet man, man in the fullness
  of his stature, at all.  But if the passive,  
  logistic, prosaic principle predominates,   
  then the man becomes--what? the collector,
  the man who cannot grasp the reality of      
  anything but percepts.  And here at last a   
  real distinction between poet and scientist,
  or rather between poetaster and pedant,           
  does arise.                                     
-                                                    
pp. 140-141  [7]                               
    Provided, then, that we do not look too    
  far back into the past (i.e. beyond the    
  point at which the 'given' meaning of a   
  word first began to yield place to the    
  'created' meaning) language does indeed    
  appear historically as an endless process 
  of metaphor transforming itself into meaning.   
  Seeking for material in which to incarnate   
  its last inspiration, imagination seizes   
  on a suitable word or phrase, uses it as a   
  metaphor, and so creates a meaning.  The   
  progress is from Meaning, through inspiration  
  to imagination, and from imagination, through   
  metaphor, to meaning; inspiration grasping   
  the hitherto unapprehended, and imagination  
  relating it to the already known.               
                                                     
                                                   
                                                        
                                                 
                                              
                                               

bl00353

Topical

2009-06-17T16:36:00.001-05:00


                                          
                                        
Over at Money Rho are financial links.
                                                  
Two of the moment are J. H. Kunstler's post        
too stupid to survive 
in which he provides information about 
the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU),          
an organization I had not heard of but    
plan to become familiar with.  www.cnu.org               
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The other is Karl Denninger's post for today.         
                                                                                                                                               
             
Also, this evening President Obama is expected to announce 
the granting of some benefits to same-sex partners who are   
federally employed.                                          
                                                           
                                                      
                                                       
                                                          
bl00352

mostly silly stuff

2009-06-16T19:40:00.001-05:00

             
                                     
                                       
Get off computer stool.
Go directly to toilet.         
Do not take a side trip.
Do not save/ joke for today.               
                                       
-                                       
                                 
Gorgeous George fell in a gorge,          
and now the gorge is gorgeous, George.              
                                       
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As I told a security guard           
one night in Gainesville:             
I used to be a slut for              
the FBI.                                     
                                     
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Brina had a little goat.           
She used to grab it by the throat.                
                                    
But when the goat grew big and strong,              
Brina left the goat alone.                    
                                          
Then one day the old goat died.                
Poor Brina, she was mystified.               
                                    
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So I've been having trouble                 
getting to the hidden places on my blogs,
and trouble connecting to AOL,              
and trouble getting comments to show          
on other blogs; et, et, et, et.             
Well--not that I hadn't seen this before--
come to find out from Google:               
Your browser has cookies disabled.
This time it hit me, and so I minimized out        
and went to my browser's advanced settings   
and removed the check mark from the request   
to clear temporary files each time         
my browser is not being used.                
It hadn't occurred to me until today           
that clearing the temporary files        
also meant cookies would be cleared.             
                                           
                                          
                                         
                                         
bl00351

recent things done

2009-06-15T16:03:00.002-05:00

 
                                     
                                   
Beginning early last Wednesday and ending          
several minutes before noon on Sunday, a     
long-avoided necessary internal project   
was essentially completed.  The upshot of   
that, however, remains an unknown.  That  
it's done is joy enough.                    
                                             
-                                        
                                        
Just completed a secondary project which   
had been ongoing for some time but which  
was halted while the more substantial     
project held me.                             
                                         
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It is now 3:33 PM and I have a knotty post
pertaining to haiku you might enjoy: it is   
Bill Knott's looking for the no-center             
                                                   
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Still having connection problems with AOL   
but I think they may have begun the day I   
dowloaded and installed IE8.  Definitely,        
IE8 is more security-oriented than IE7.          
If Google Chrome has a recovery feature,  
I may well try using it.  I did open a  
Google Mail account, but I prefer AOL's  
email services/ even though I won't be   
using them as extensively as I had been.                 
                                                
-                                                 
                                               
Wish I could say I am done re-imagining    
past events in my life, especially those   
wherein I made disastrous choices, but--.    
                                               
                                           
                                            
                                          
                                        
                                          
bl00350

autobio stuff

2009-06-09T21:20:00.001-05:00

           
                                    
                                         
Have begun a piece entitled "A Life Litany" that       
already has an ending but that might become rather
long.  It has four-line stanzas with the fourth   
line/ the same three words.  In a way it's a test   
of how much a reader can take.                    
                                                   
-                                               
                                                 
Placed a comment beneath post kh00031.  Everyone   
who reads this should go there and read that.         
                                                    
-                                                   
                                                    
Am having problems in my recent posts section.
So either I will delete it altogether or change      
it to a list.                                        
                                               
-                                                   
                                                 
My sister took me out today to pick up a book,   
Owen Barfield's What Coleridge Thought, at the
library we frequent; then to return an improperly     
packaged item to a specific Wal-Mart, where we   
also bought a few things; and then to a specific   
QT for gas; and then back to here, where my sister         
put together one of the things we bought.              
                                                     
-                                                
                                               
With a spattering of lightning and thunder,          
threatening weather passed through here earlier   
this evening, but it didn't deliver.                
                                                 
                                              
                                           
                                          
                                           
                                               
                                              
bl00349

just considering

2009-06-07T13:36:00.001-05:00

           
                                         
                                     
No doubt the Bald Eagle is a beautiful national symbol   
but while the Industrial Age passes/ I think we should  
temporarily let the Crow be our national bird.           
                                                          
-                                                       
                                                        
I have been posting my quirky song lyrics at a rapid       
pace as of late.  They come as and when they come.  I  
have no overriding plan.  If you want to snatch one    
or more, go ahead.  Feel free to mess with any of them    
in your own space.                                       
                                                         
-                                                     
                                                     
Visited Adam Fieled's Stoning the Devil yesterday.
Left a comment.  May link to that post of his at my    
K H today.                                              
                                                        
-                                                       
                                                      
If William Michaelian and Joseph Hutchison wish to           
continue their recent crow project, my encumbrance         
need not be part of it.  I will do whatever I do/         
as an aside to what they do.  That is why I didn't   
post "Rhetorical" in a comment on William's blog.   
I was merely riffing.                                 
                                                        
-                                                   
                                                  
My body is in hesitation mode again, but I've been   
and will be eating 4 ounces of probiotic yogurt   
every day.  Am also trying to get myself to get  
out and walk for at least ten minutes daily, and   
I am making other changes.                            
                                                    
-                                                   
                                                    
Although I first came online in April of 2000, I
am not of the Net Generation as Don Tapscott puts
it, and so I lack the confidence and skills NGers   
have.  I learn what I need to, id est, when I am   
ready to learn what I need to or am forced to.           
                                                      
-                                                     
                                                   
I live moment to moment, my ongoing as an ashable        
human primarily dependent on the will of God.  I  
am not out to prove myself better than or even =     
to any other human.                                      
                                                    
                                               
                                                    
                                                    
                                                 
                                                      
bl00348

kiwifruit

2009-06-05T19:53:00.000-05:00

             
                                           
                                              
California Kiwi Fruit Commission
                                                      
Eat what's good for you Baj said to himself.               
                                                      
                                                 
                                                
                                                  
                                                   
                                                          
bl00347

Edge sends THIRD CULTURE emails

2009-06-04T22:02:00.001-05:00


                                  
                                       
to me.  Today's features a streaming video talk:   
"The Impending Demise of the University" by         
Don Tapscott.  You can access it at this URL:
www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge288.html        
                                              
                                        
                                             
                                           
                                           
                                          
bl00346

My personal library

2009-05-30T12:34:00.002-05:00


                                                     
                                                 
has--according to a casual count I made this morning--
350 books, not including copies of books I have written
but including literary journals.                          
                                                        
One of those books is Reader-Response Criticism   
from Formalism to Post-Structuralism edited by   
Jane P. Thompkins -- Copyright © 1980 by The Johns
Hopkins University Press.  On page V the following:                              
                                                          

                                                             
click on image to enlarge                        
                                                
                                               
                                          
bl00345

yesterday today notes

2009-05-25T21:13:00.001-05:00


                                     
                                        
Yesterday:                                
                                   
Spent most of my online time             
changing things in AOL Mail          
and in my blogs.                      
-                                 
Took a short parking lot walk.            
                                     
                                  
Today:                            
                                  
In the early morning of this                
Memorial Day the green-tinted          
(beneath its heavy translucent         
covering just under the roof         
of the apartment building north   
of this one at its southeast           
corner where still growing         
Sturdy Bush is) light/ went          
dark.                                 
-                                  
My ever-changing body in its             
weaknesses/ forces ne to be     
ever innovative regarding it.              
-                                  
My subconscious continues its war     
against my conscious, but I can't         
let one dominate/ for I need the          
strengths native to each.               
-                                  
Having problems in my blog spaces   
I never had before, especially      
with the one migrated from AOL.         
The only recent major thing I did   
was open a Gmail account.  Seems 
my best move might be to record    
and/or PDF my books.                      
                                        
                                         
                                             
                                       
bl00344

Reading book by Owen Barfield

2009-05-22T22:35:00.002-05:00


                                     
                                         
Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning         
                                                
Since I haven't gotten very far into it, 
I can't say much yet; but I know it is a   
book I like.  The copy I have is of the          
second edition -- Copyright © 1964 by the
McGraw-Hill Book Company.  I have it on     
loan through a local library.  The first   
sentence of the "Preface to the Second       
Edition" reveals this book's basis:        
                                           
  The Preface to the first edition
  described briefly how this book    
  grew out of two empirical obser-   
  vations, first, that poetry reacts  
  on the meanings of the words it    
  employs, and, secondly, that there    
  appear to be two sorts of poetry.     
                                           
On page 34 is a longer passage I would        
like to shorten but deem it best not to.
                                             
  Apart from pleasurable entertainment  
  (which must never be forgotten), there   
  are two important functions which poetry  
  is there to perform.  One of them is the
  one I have stressed throughout this book,
  namely the making of meaning, which gives
  life to language and makes true knowledge
  possible.  And this it does inasmuch as    
  it is the vehicle of imagination.  The     
  other, lying much nearer the surface of  
  life, is to mirror, not necessarily by  
  approving, the characteristic response   
  of the age in which it is written.  Now
  it may happen, and it has been happening
  increasingly since the eighteenth century,
  that these two functions conflict.  They
  may even be diametrically opposed to one
  another.  For there may be an age of which
  the characteristic response is to deny     
  the validity of imagination.  And if that
  happens, a true and sensitive poet will  
  find himself in a dilemma.
                                                
Obviously, many changes have occurred since    
Barfield wrote his book, and while I have an
idea of where he would stand, I am going to  
defer that until I have read his entire book.   
                                                 
                                           
                                                 
                                               
                                               
bl00343

Today at wood s lot

2009-05-21T21:30:00.002-05:00


                                             
                                          
What is on this page is all worth lingering over,   
but what most interested me is the article by      
Laura Miller about New Zealander Brian Boyd and   
evocriticism.                                        
                                                 
Today at wood s lot              
                                                
                                             
                                           
                                             
bl00342

all strung out

2009-05-19T15:26:00.001-05:00


                                    
                                    
Mares eat oats
and does eat oats
and little lambs             
eat ivy.                 
A kid 'll eat ivy too,
wouldn't you?                              
                                          
-                                  
                        
In the April 27, 2009 issue of Time/
one of the results of a survey of 1000 people
taken by a group of reporters who fanned out
across America was: 14% said this nation is   
heading into a long slow decline.                     
                                                   
-                                
                            
According to one research,                     
men who drink 5 glasses of water daily--
an amount that would make me feel like an innertube--
lower their risk of having a heart attack by 54%.         
                                                     
-                                
                          
Beware of sodium benzoate,                          
which is found in certain margarines            
and other foods,                 
because mixing it with vitamin C           
is bad for one's health.  
Search it out.                            
                                          
-                                 
                           
There is something in peanut butter--      
I forget what it is--               
that is highly carcinogenic.           
I continue to eat peanut butter nonetheless.                                 
                                                      
                                                     
                                                   
                                                   
                                                
bl00341

Somehow I feel

2009-05-17T22:45:00.002-05:00

          
                                           
                                                
everything I've wanted to say           
I've already said.                 
It's just a matter of finding      
where all of it is.                  
                                  
I could, of course, be wrong about that,
even infinitely wrong.                      
                                              
In any case, there's enough work to be done
with just that I know the whereabouts of    
to keep me busy for months                     
if the circumstances of my ongoing          
remain favorable.                              
                                              
One project I have in mind is              
an annotated PDF version of 1976 Today.         
366 sonnets would be in it                 
and each would have its own page.                    
                                            
Do need to finish posting the        
Brian's Brain journal,          
but that rest is offline and unready.          
                                        
                                          
---                                   
                                     
                                   
My computer was at a tech shop 
for over a week.                 
Got it back Friday afternoon.
Spent the time here reading, writing,
and going through boxes of materials  
I hadn't gotten to yet.
We took my old computer system 
and my printer I had stopped using
to a recycling place.
         
                                   
                                              
                                        
                                           
                                             
bl00340

Rodrigo Toscano

2009-04-29T18:07:00.005-05:00


                                        
                                         
is new to me, and I likely would not be bothering
with this post if I hadn't noticed ". . . Toscano    
is major. . . ." in a comment by Kent Johnson.  I
have been doing some searches, and found that he   
has an epc.buffalo.edu page.  Early this afternoon
I finished reading the Jacket 28 interview of him by 
Leonard Schwartz.  Because of the keenness of the   
questions, the appropriateness of the responses--
which include parts of poems by Toscano, and the  
sonic and intellectual flair of his poem-making, this  
interview is the best entry for anyone who is not
familiar with this NYC-based arbiter and author.   
Here is a direct link to the interview.
                                                
On his epc page are numerous links.              
                                                        
And here is a link to a post by Mark Scroggins.
                                                           
Do not know if this is a general consensus, but        
Toscano is a post-Langpo author according to at  
least one person.  From what I have read so far  
the performance quality in his poems is enticing.
Dialogue is a core device for him, and since I   
have used dialogue in several works, it is easy  
for me to relate to and enjoy that aspect of his
writing.                                          
                                                   
                                                     
                                                   
                                              
                                                    
                                                   
bl00339

Mikhail Bakhtin two links

2009-04-27T13:17:00.002-05:00

           
                                               
                                           
heteroglossia
-                                                              
[ ... ]
                                                                         
                                                        
Humans are always naming things, 
if for no other reason than
the need to remember them.                  
                                              
Circa 1985 I wrote a poem which speaks to this.
It is entitled "A Cardinal of Consciousness".           
 
                                        
                                                   
                                              
bl00338

quik thoughts

2009-04-24T14:47:00.002-05:00

         
                                         
                                           
Not that I haven't been ironic
both in my words and in my life
but I've grown tired of irony                     
                                     
and not that I haven't used allusions
but I have grown/ tired of allusions
and of being elusive and of illusions      
                                             
and not that I'm never contentious    
but I have grwon tired of          
contention and of being content i o u s.                 
                                            
-                                         
                                             
[ Note:  At K H is Stephen Burt Elliptical ]
                           
                                               
                                              
                                        
                                          
bl00337

With winds gusting

2009-04-23T15:47:00.001-05:00


                                         
                                       
through Sturdy Bush at noon, a butterfly that looked 
like a Monarch but seemed too small and so may have   
been a Viceroy was moving from one dandelion patch
to another.  Also caught a glimpse of a bee on this
now cloudy warm day.       
                                                      
-                                                   
                                                    
Have been following Bank of America this week.  A
slew of controversy surrounds its solvency and in  
particular its acquistion of Merrill Lynch.  BAC  
stock dropped to $7 briefly--I think it was early  
on Tuesday--but mostly has been between $8 and $9.  
                                                   
-                                                      
                                                    
Ron Silliman placed a challenging post up yesterday
which I may link to so I don't have to keep visiting  
it.  Henry Gould's comments are becoming more 
cogent, a fact that pleases me since I agree with     
most of his conclusions.                                          
                                                       
-                                                     
                                                    
Speaking of conclusions, Coversations With Myself   
has entered the contest for the title of my collected   
works.  Two others are Idiothead and Your Mother's
Dead, and She's Glad.                                  
                                                       
-                                                     
                                                      
PM 3:30 -- Mark Wallace's wallacethinksagain.blogspot.com  
is another site I've been visiting a lot of late.  Many 
of the discussions re American Hybrid radiate from there
and Mark nearly always states his thoughts in interesting
ways.                                                      
                                                          
-                                                        
                                                       
Reminder: If you don't have a link to a site I mention,
check to see if I do.                                 
                                                          
                                                       
                                                        
                                                     
bl00336

Sam Hamill on Kenneth Rexroth

2009-04-21T20:53:00.001-05:00


                                       
                                           
in Jacket 23.  Would prefer to provide a link    
to the article, but Jacket has a rather strict   
copyright policy.  So here's the URL:           
                                             
jacketmagazine.com/23/rex-hamill.html                
                                                 
One fact in Hamill's article has me wondering  
how many of the most significant poets had    
near perfect recall.                            
                                             
                                                
                                              
                                              
                                             
                                                
bl00335

Recently

2009-04-17T20:17:00.007-05:00


                                                 
                                                   
a pair of warblers or finches                  
along with some zipping around  
swallows have been near Sturdy   
Bush.  Swallows do nest in the  
passageways, but I would like   
to know what kind of bird the  
other two are.  They may have   
been here past years too in a  
different location.                  
                                         
Recently I've been trying to eat a   
can of three bean salad.  It hasn't
been going well.  Too stringy and   
the kidney bean skins get stuck in  
my throat and other places, and the   
vinegar, well--it is vinegar.  Will be
eating the last of it tomorrow.   
                                       
Recently, though I haven't written any down yet,
I've been noting lines I like in the anthology of  
poems I got from the library, and have been  
attempting to ascertain why I like them.  Have
renewed the book and will probably do a post 
on some of Emily Dickinson's lines first.               
                                                   
Recently I've been trying to summon the energy  
to get back to posting the rest of Brian's Brain.
It's a large project that once was online at               
Tripod.  Six posts of it are done.  Am not sure
how many more posts will be needed, but the   
completed ones are in size 1 Verdana.  Those   
remaining, therefore, will also be in size 1
Verdana.                                                
                                                     
Recently in KH I posted the covers of 5 books,
each by a different author, along with 1 poem  
from each book.  A hazy theme connects the 5   
poems, so I didn't comment on them.  The five  
authors are William Michaelian, 
                    Tom Montag,                        
                       David Lunde,                      
                          Charles Behlen,              
and                       Gary B. Fitzgerald.             
                                                     
                                                    
                                                   
                                         
bl00334

Susan Boyle Britain's Got Talent

2009-04-15T17:14:00.002-05:00

            
                                    
                                     
If you don't already know,                 
do this search:                    
                                  
susan boyle britains got talent                     
                                                
-                                   
                                    
She is a singer.  Her story is              
both sad and amazing.                     
                                    
"I Dreamed a Dream" is the song she sings.     
                                                
In the Seattle Intelligencer is   
a post by Steven J. Patrick about life    
dreams, written because of                     
Susan Boyle's performance.                     
I came upon it as the result of this search:

susan boyle american idol                      
                                                
                                              
                                              
                                              
There are videos of her singing the song. *                                                 
                                                
bl00333

Easter

2009-04-12T10:17:00.002-05:00

          
                                     
                                       
storm approaching; therefore, may this day,    
as best fits your persuasions, be holy.         
                                               
                                             
                                                 
bl00332

Literary canon information

2009-04-11T11:00:00.002-05:00

           
                                        
                                     
I support.                              
It is a short introduction to a specific English course
from a faculty URL at Goucher College, Baltimore, MD.   
                                                       
I was going to post my views, but decided to search    
literary canon.  Glad I did.  What their introduction
covers/ are my views since I believe literary canons
from the strictest to the loosest are implicit in any   
anthology of literature and in any literary manifesto,
neither of which is likely to cease being while, for  
whatever reasons, humans interact with the artifacts   
they create, artifacts which someone contends are     
literary.                                               
                                                       
There is in all this the question of texts (in canons   
birthed and nurtured by institutions) devolving into    
ventriloquisms fit only for the scholars who autopsy 
them.  To me this question has merit, but only in a    
narrow political sense.  Yes, texts can be enhanced  
or demeaned by scholarly investigations; but, if I   
come upon an unfamiliar text, and interact with it,
my opinions of it at that time will be informed by   
the degree of my knowledge and persuasions at that  
time; and even if I were to seek further knowledge,
I would not have to be persuaded by it.  After its   
author is no longer able to revise it, a text is a  
text, and no amount of dissectioning or perverting
can alter the original text unless that original is  
mutilated or destroyed.                               
                                                       
                                                      
                                                     
                                                      
bl00331

Stupid search engines

2009-04-10T10:48:00.001-05:00

          
                                         
                                       
have angered me more than long enough; therefore,
I have devised a test.  I don't know what their 
problems are, but they consistently return results
that assign to me (Brian Salchert) statements     
made by someone else.  From now on/ whenever I   
comment (even on my own blogs), my comment will   
begin and end with the date and my initials.  If   
a comment doesn't begin and/or end with this info,
it is not my comment.  Admittedly, my test may fail.
If it does, I will end it.                 
                                                   
                                                   
                                                 
bl00330

passed new rare events

2009-04-06T16:18:00.002-05:00

           
                                    
                                       
Photo of Sturdy Bush          
as it was in March.               
                       | blossoms: click to enlarge
                                 
                                    
                                    
                                       
                                         
This month        
light-green leaves    
have taken over.                          
                              
This afternoon a rare event    
that was a daily one when I                  
was in Gainesville, Florida:  
a Mockingbird.  The female   
Cardinal was just ahead of   
it.  Apparently she'd been   
in its territory/ which is   
not on this property.  The/  
the Mockingbird was quiet  
though, even when it flew in  
to one of Sturdy Bush's    
branches, and then out to   
the recently cut grass, and   
then back to its somewhere 
out of sight.                 
                              
The things I see// through my   
bedroom's cracked window.   
                                
White/ wing bars!  Holy stars!                      
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                       
                                         
bl00329

blog notes

2009-04-03T22:44:00.003-05:00

           
                                         
                                       
Posted to all the blogs today.                
                                     
The post at Kyph Herm isn't complete but         
it's visible since I didn't leave it in draft.   
                                                
God bless my insanity.                       
                                                    
                                             
                                                 
                                                      
                                              
bl00328

change notes

2009-04-02T22:58:00.005-05:00

           
                                        
                                          
Even if it does sound corny, and maybe because it 
does I will be staying with Baj's Lodges; but you can  
still use Rhodingeedaddee if you prefer it.                       
                                                           
Will be difficult, but plan to post money-related items
on Money Rho and not on the node blog.                      
                                                           
Joseph Hutchison's anthology post has rekindled my          
desire to build a list of contemporary American poets 
who though not unknown are either not known in blogland    
or are seen as inadequate.  Desire.  There are others    
who are doing what I want to do in the places they know, 
and organizations with rosters into the thousands; and 
I am physically disadvantaged.  So why should I even try?  
Besides, maybe those I list don't want to be so listed, 
or don't want to be listed by me.  Hype.                                  
                                                        
                                                          
bl00327

Rhetoric Questings

2009-03-31T22:10:00.003-05:00

          
                                               
                                          
On Volume in Poetry                          
is a provocative essay in his continuing effort to define
a space hundreds of poets are exploring from hundreds of   
directions.  Names for this space have been proposed:    
Third Way, Elliptical, American Hybrid.  Perhaps it'd be   
best to let it be nameless.  The only other option is to   
make believe Ron Silliman is Euclid.  Then it could be  
named: Non-Silliman Poetries, or something to that defect.
-                                                            
Read Mr. Abramson's essay and especially the comments by 
upinVermont, Art Durkee, and Curtis Faville in this order.

                                                            
In northern Wisconsin near Lake Superior the young poet,
Aaron Apps, posted Poet as Platypus: a fine example of       
the integrated thinking prevalent among many younger
poets.  Reading it will benefit your brain.  Charles  
Bernstein and William Blake are stars in it.          
                                                    
                                                      
                                                      
                                                        
                                                         
                                                       
rho00326

Scrunched day

2009-03-30T20:33:00.004-05:00

             
                                    
                                          
due to monthly grocery shopping, but though I'm
still behind/ I've caught up some.  Bought two  
envelopes and mailed my old chapbook out.  Also
got a film developed and over at Library Station
checked out a copy of the Shorter Fifth Edition   
of The Norton Anthology of Poetry edited by  
Margaret Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter, and Jon          
Stallworthy.                                       
                                                   
The air was brisk today but mostly clear and         
not cold.  Had forgotten how long the film I   
had developed had been in my camera, and so I   
was like saying to the clerk: "What are these,   
they don't look like any pictures I took."
Some are of me, which led me to say: "I look    
dead.  Maybe I am.  My body just hasn't figured
it out yet."  That led me into an unnecessary   
public meditation on life and death.  If Jim
Kunstler is right, there will be a massive die
off of ill elderly soon if our leaders don't see
the policies they are pursuing are the wrong       
ones.                                           
                                                   
Have quit eating processed meat, and my body   
is saying thank you.  Have gone to using one
brand of nutrition drink, though I still have
four bottles of a second brand to use up.  I
didn't buy a blender though.  Am not sure    
what vegetables and fruits to get, and if it
would be better to get them frozen.  I have  
another month during which to decide.             
                                                
Had some strange dreams last night, and as
I awoke from the one that came after AM 3/ 
a song appeared:
-                                           
Attached to a Dream                    
                                               
Yes we can.                                
Yes I know we can.                          
Yes I know we can                            
because, well,                     
yes I know we can.                        
                                          
Yes we can.                    
Yes I know we can.              
Yes, I know we can                      
because we can.                                  
-                                                 
                                                
Not sure if this song is straight or satirical.    
                                                     
                                                 
                                                 
                                               
                                                
rho00325

KNOCK KNOCK WHO IS IT MAILMAN just ducky

2009-03-28T19:11:00.002-05:00

             
                                        
                                          
                                       
                                        
                                              
                                                 
I'M IN THE BATHROOM.  THAT'S OKAY.                 
                                       
Not really.  So hurriedly I reconstruct my  
necessaries and awkwardly make my way to    
the door.  He extends to me a handful of   
somewhat soggy mail which I use two hands 
to grasp while I think thank you--do not   
recall if I actually said it.              
                                           
                                              
Some background:  After waking at AM 7:06          
and hearing moderately heavy rain, and in   
the distance two thunderings, I stayed up.
The mail boxes here are deep but otherwise   
small, and he had two items that were not  
easy to bend.  It was after PM 2 when he  
arrived and these days I usually need to   
visit the bathroom every -/+ three hours.
Still, it baffles and annoys me that I am  
often interrupted at moments when I least 
need to be.                                   
                                           
The two books I received today:              
-                                          
Studia Mystica  Poetry and Mysticism
Volume IX, Number 4  Winter 1986            
(four poems I wrote are in it)                
-- It was through the kindness of                
Professor Robert Boenig at TAMU          
that I was able to secure a copy. --    
-                                       
Another Song I Know -- short poems
by William Michaelian.  
He and I and Gary B. Fitzgerald
are engaged in a 3-way book exchange.   
Hopefully I will be able to send     
a copy of my book to each of them         
this coming week.                       
                                         
Two books I received earlier this month
from the Academy of American Poets:       
-                                    
the true keeps calm biding its story
by Rusty Morrison                          
Winner of the 2008 James Laughlin Award
of the Academy of American Poets
-                                           
American Poet -- The Journal of  
the Academy of American Poets          
Volume 36  Spring 2009                      
                                          
                                             
                                       
                                           
                                           
rho00324

Indeed Indeed

2009-03-27T15:11:00.000-05:00

             
                                         
                                       
This music I relate to, only in my case I was not
the one who died; but I did mess up severely, and
so was part of the reason my other died.  Mr. Philip   
Metres placed a video of it on his blog.  Indeed #1 
refers to the title of his post.  #2 Indeed to his    
words under the video.                      
                                                    
a Johnny Cash song that made my eyes glaze
                                                                
                                                                
                                                           
                                                        
                                                      
rho00323

America as we have known it is dead

2009-03-25T16:02:00.014-05:00

             
                                        
                                         
DEAD.  The oil-based credit-is-good paradigm is over.  
Do not try to resurrect it, especially with dollars    
that do not exist.  You will only make the future         
worse, President Obama.  Just as when an individual,          
for whatever reasons, slips into bankruptcy, so    
should organizations of individuals be allowed to 
slip into bankruptcy.  AIG wants to change its name         
or already has changed its name, probably to AIU
Holdings, after its toxic financial waste unit is     
separated from the rest of the company.  Don't   
know if it would make sense to, but a special entity 
for toxic financial waste could be created.  Perhaps    
then computers could identify and classify that     
waste, and determine how best to eliminate it.    
Besides, a vast majority of this nation's citizens   
have on their own chosen saving over borrowing;    
and a further besides:  If we don't immediately    
begin to reduce the toxins in Earth's atmosphere,
the financial mess will be a moot concern, because
we will lose our planet, and most likely our lives.
                                                   
2009-03-26:  See money.cnn.com/ and search
colin barr truth about credit default swaps
-                                             
Also: Treasury Secretary Geithner will be 
apprising Congress today.                        
                                                 
PM 1:11 --                                               
----------- Search
Geithner March 26, 2009 financial system overhaul  
or                                                   
Play Geithner testimony video here.
                                              
PM 2:00 --                                       
----------- See this post by Mike Hewitt                      
America's Forgotten War Against the Central Banks 
on his DollarDaze blog.           
  
One sentence from this long insightful post: 
"The more abundant the money, the lower its value."
                                                        
PM 2:45 -- See DollarDaze by Mike Hewitt                   
---------- in Unlike List in sidebar.
                                                      
                                                     
                                                    
                                                   
                                                    
                                                     
rho00322

Canadian Financial Empathy

2009-03-24T22:14:00.002-05:00

             
                                       
                                    
Canadian Banks Show Us How It's Done                              
                                                     
                                                          
                                                      
                                                   
rho00321

civilization types revisited

2009-03-22T15:46:00.002-05:00

             
                                           
                                             
Presented in this video is a general explanation of    
civilization types by Dr. Michio Kaku.                                   
                                              
This Kardashev scale article at Wikipedia details  
the speculation of civilization types and indicates  
where the human race was as of 2007.               
                                                      
                                                   
                                                  
                                               
                                                 
                                          
rho00320

two White House notes

2009-03-21T19:44:00.004-05:00

          
                                             
                                              
President Obama has been trying to bowl         
on the White House lanes Harry Truman     
had installed.  He's not doing well, but I   
can tell you it's a lot harder for most   
people than it seems.  When I was a kid  
I watched professional bowlers on our TV  
for several years before I first tried.   
Irrationally, I decided I wasn't going to    
bowl until my 16th birthday.  Years later
I wrote an odd poem about it.  It's here
in Postures 2007.  Do this search:
President Obama bowling                       
                                             
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Michelle Obama, I am pleased to learn, is   
putting in a White House vegetable garden.
In November of 2008 I wrote a short poem  
about this topic: Lesson One.  I can't have         
a garden where I reside.  Search:       
Michelle Obama garden                          
                                              
                                           
                                          
                                             
                                        
                                          
rho00319

Gerald Celente predictions are

2009-03-19T19:55:00.001-05:00

                
                                           
                                             
not all negative.                      
                                                
When you play this video   
pay attention to the closing advice he gives.              
                                               
              
                                                        
-                                             
                                                 
Opinions of his ability to predict, even though he  
has often been right, are broad and varied.  I try   
to refrain from having an opinion about such, but  
I am nonetheless interested in the conclusions of  
people like Gerald Celente.                           
                                                 
                                                    
                                                   
                                               
                                                    
                                                   
                                                     
rho00318

This Is About Who Cares

2009-03-17T17:03:00.006-05:00

clovers of four before your door Honestly, even though the idea for this post was the result of events late last night as I was coursing from blog to blog--specifically what was mentioned in comment 100 beneath Kasey Mohammad's Dale Smith . . . post at his Lime Tree, I am not certain why I'm doing this. Maybe I sense my continuance as a viable human will soon cease. Maybe I sense civilization as I have known it will soon cease. Maybe it is both. I do know/ the high-class intellectuals (some of them, anyway) whose blogs I visit do tend to misunderstand me and may consider me an interloper. Rarely are comments from me lengthy. Rarely are posts on my blogs lengthy. However, while I neither seek nor want sympathy and while most of what I will be sharing today is available in older posts, I've concluded that the major facts need to be in one place. So: Age: 68 Zodiac sign: metal dragon Health: moment-to-moment * My genes have seen to it that I would never know true health. Shortly after I was born I had to be returned to the hospital because I had impetigo. My body, not unlike my psyche, is too sensitive. Eczema, hay fever, asthma have been with me from the beginning. It has not been proven, but at an early age I may have contracted TB and somehow overcome it. Just the sort of knowledge that makes me want to believe in reincarnation when the megalomania balloon inflates. Epilepsy, both frontal lobe and generalized. May have had some form of it since childhood, but wasn't medicated for it until my 1999-11-01 adult onset grand mal seizure. For approximately five years it has been controlled by Keppra. Will be using a generic form of it. Voiding, which I thought was due to a non-cancerous en- larged prostate. Have had two TURP op's and am now no better than I was before. Turns out my bladder empties fine. This means my urethra is the problem. It is messed up and the last doctor I visited about it said that operating on it might make it worse. Ishkabibble & the double dribble. Osteoporosis, oh yeah. I am crumbling. Genetics again. I was once an amazing 5'6.5" tall. I am presently 4'11" or less. Shortly before my rup- tured appendix was removed in the spring of 1962 (another by seconds escape from death), I weighed 135. I now weigh less than 100. Of course, I have fractured 3 vertabrae. Metal dragons are risk- takers. Have been drinking those nasty nutrition drinks in order to bring my weight up. Can't eat the foods I once ate, yet I need the calories. This is a problem I am trying to rectify. As if this were not enough, I've also had to have my esophagus dilated, and the nutrition drinks are causing a buildup of mucous and who knows what else. So I remain what I call Earth-alive because someone greater than I wants me to be. I am certain I've escaped death at least three dozen times. Education: Mainly in Roman Catholic schools until the autumn of 1962. Then three years at Wisconsin State College–Oshkosh where I majored in English and minored in History and was editor of the student magazine for two years. In 1965 I entered the workshop at Iowa, graduating in 1967 with an English MFA (poetry) degree. I then took a summer Education course at Marian College in Fond du Lac. Around 1983, while residing in UF town (Gainesville), Florida, I took computer and accounting courses at Santa Fe Community College and began studying diligently for a GRE administered in June of 1984 at UF. My score on that exam (1370) was the high point of my intellectual life. Got accepted into the Fisher School of Accounting at UF, but had to drop out early in my first semester as I found it too difficult to bike to school after working all night at a Holiday Inn, and I realized accounting was not for me. Next I got accepted into the English PhD Program. There I completed one semester, but again I was too worn out to concentrate properly. Then there was the stock market where idiothead tried to be a trader in an environment that was better for investing. Through my own efforts and God's nudgings, had I seen the light and had I lived till now after choosing the wiser path--there is no way to know such. Though it doesn't detail everything, if you are interested in knowing more, read Intelligence Is Not Enough, the 19th post in Money Rho. Finances: Oh it could have been worse, but I played the American Dream game. I bought into the oil/auto/credit paradigm. Where then am I now? I am totally dependent on governments; and if the gloomiest analysts are right, one day I will no longer have that. When trust leaves the playing field, the only call that can be made is: Game over. That is the gist of my simplistic equation: capitalism = something to sell + someone to buy it For, indeed, without someone to buy it, that paradigm withers and dies. In some ways this is already happening. A new less aggressive paradigm is growing, and if it survives and takes over, greed will fade/ and all humans will be drawn closer to each other. Call it what you will, I call it the inexorable force of God, the Omega Point, the Singularity, the Nth of Love. But then, I am the ghost in the dumpster. * rho00317

Joburg

2009-03-16T17:17:00.003-05:00

             
                                        
                                                   
                                          
This week's article from Jim Kunstler is    
                                           
Side Trip.                 
                                           
                      
                                             
                                           
                                        
rho00316

Courting Cardinal

2009-03-14T22:41:00.003-05:00

           
                                        
                                       
Wednesday and/or Thursday the nearby male    
was working his way from 0 to 4 thusly:         
                                        
two-wheat two-wheat                        
two-wheat two-wheat tyou                 
two-wheat two-wheat tyou tyou                  
two-wheat two-wheat tyou               
two-wheat two-wheat tyou tyou           
two-wheat two-wheat tyou tyou tyou             
two-wheat two-wheat tyou tyou           
two-wheat two-wheat tyou tyou tyou          
two-wheat two-wheat tyou tyou tyou tyou             
                                           
-                                         
                                          
Friday he ratcheted it up to 5 and then 6:             
                                           
two-wheat two-wheat tyou tyou tyou tyou    
two-wheat two-wheat tyou tyou tyou             
two-wheat two-wheat tyou tyou tyou tyou           
two-wheat two-wheat tyou tyou tyou tyou tyou   
two-wheat two-wheat tyou tyou tyou tyou          
two-wheat two-wheat tyou tyou tyou tyou tyou   
two-wheat two-wheat tyou tyou tyou tyou tyou tyou   
                                                     
-                                                   
                                                 
Today, in a clipped manner, he stretched the       
two-wheat and shortened the tyou's to one tyou:        
                                               
two-it two-it two-it two-it two-it two-it tyou
two-it two-it two-it two-it two-it two-it tyou
two-it two-it two-it two-it two-it two-it tyou         
                                             
-                                               
-                                              
                                              
Amused and bemused, I cannot decipher the meanings
of his courting songs, but the female was on a wire
today.  So she hasn't left the territory.  They've  
been together here all winter.  Tune in tomorrow.
                                                                 
                                                      
                                                    
                                                    
                                                   
                                                   
rho00315

blog notes

2009-03-13T22:38:00.003-05:00

        
                                                 
                                                   
No Friday report at Money Rho today.          
The DJIA went up a bit, and most of  
the stocks I've been tracking went up.
                                       
-                                   
                                        
As to the recommended search note           
beneath this blog's name, I spent     
much of Wednesday reading Rexroth's
essay, along with visiting various  
blogs.  One sentence from the essay:    
"The white race is going mad, but it
is the autonomic nervous system which
is out of kilter; what goes on in the
head is secondary--and the autonomic  
nervous system is, as a whole, the          
organ of communion."                        
                                         
-                                       
                                     
Spent much of Thursday visiting blogs
and reading.  Thursday night I left a  
comment beneath Martin Earl's Harriet  
post: Wernicke's area.  Today I was  
back there, and I left another comment   
because he had left one for me which  
included a question about Dickinson.
Martin Earl post.     
                                         
-                                           
                                     
Also, led to it by Don Share, I've 
been at Jacket 37/ reading a long  
Kent Johnson interview of David   
Shapiro.  Fascinating story of
natural talents coupled with the   
right environments.                  
                                    
-                                    
                                     
Posted a short-form haiku at      
The Ghost in the Dumpster.              
                                        
                                  
                                     
                                    
                                     
                                         
rho00314

one thought

2009-03-11T19:53:00.003-05:00


                                    
                                    
twenty influences on my writing,   
which actually are far more than 20:
                                              
kh00022             
                                 
                                   
                                      
                                     
                                   
rho00313

several thoughts 4

2009-03-10T20:08:00.003-05:00

              
                                          
                                     
My day yesterday away from the computer        
was not pleasant.  This morning all that      
turned around.                           
                                         
-                                         
                                         
May open my Flutterby blog for minutiae reasons.           
                                                   
-                                                    
                                                 
Even though I think                            
the 20-books me-me                           
is kinda si-wee, am                      
likely to use it as                           
a prod for a post                            
at K H.  Will see.                            
                                                   
-                                               
                                               
The market was strongly up earlier, but       
I so far haven't seen any reason why it            
should be.  .8:04 - It appears there
were market people who knew something/
since after a speech Bernanke gave/ the 
market closed +379.44.                                    
                                              
-                                         
                                         
Did open Flutterby.                        
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
rho00312

Support These U.S. Financial Repairs

2009-03-09T15:21:00.002-05:00

              
                                             
                                        
From James Howard Kunstler:                 
                                               
Forget About Recovery                        
                                          
                                           
From Karl Denninger:                             
                                         
Heh Mr. President; How Ya Like This?                  
                                                           
                                                                
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                     
                                         
.3:15 -- Or maybe the question:                                                
                                       
Time to Kill the Big Banks?
                                                 
isn't, as Paul R. La Monica suggests, 
an easy one to answer.                                  
                                               
                                              
                                       
                                     

rho00311

my year 2000 stock market memoir

2009-03-07T22:32:00.002-06:00


                                  
                                         
Intelligence Is Not Enough    
                                           
was my project today.  Am surprised I was able 
to do it all in one day.  Hadn't read it in a  
long time.  So it was satisfying to me in more
than one way, more like four or five ways even
though it is the story of a failed adventure.  
It doesn't cover all the stories I could tell  
about my encounters with stocks, and there is  
one story that gets told as two stories but,    
as I recall, both stories happened at the same
time: the sources of the HD and DELL stories.
                                                   
This memoir is post mr00019 at Money Rho.   
Intelligence Is Not Enough                                             
                                          
                                              
                                             
                                                 
                                                
rho00310

several thoughts 3

2009-03-06T20:11:00.003-06:00

   
                                    
                                     
There is a study out that indicates          
social networking is bad: it tends   
to infantilize the human brain.               
                                           
-                                        
                                       
Also this, which has been floating around   
for a number of years: Most Americans don't   
get nearly enough vitamin D3.  Do your own  
research on this, but apparently a body can   
tolerate significantly more than what is   
recommended.                                    
                                                
-                                           
                                              
Here is a link to Gregg Greenberg's        
6 Dumbest Things on Wall Street.              
                                                     
-                                                   
                                                    
Water is the new oil.                    
                                     
-                                       
                                        
In January of this year the FDA ruled     
that products containing carmine, a    
red dye made from crushed Peruvian   
beetles that eat a particular red berry,
must reveal on the label that carmine   
is in the product because some people   
are allergic to it.                      
*                                    
A side note: Wild red salmon are red   
because they eat krill.  Farmed red  
salmon are red because they have red
dye in them.                              
                                       
-                                        
                                          
Not only is Australia near China, but
it also has petroleum and natural gas  
and a variety of needed minerals.  Do  
a Wikipedia iron_ore search.               
                                       
                                       
                                        
                                         
                                        
                                         
                                           
                                        
rho00309

several thoughts 2

2009-03-04T20:05:00.002-06:00

       
                                  
                                       
Through my Google Help Features link in my   
Unlike List/ I sent a search complaint.  
I leave comments beneath posts on blogs   
maintained by other bloggers.  When I do  
a search of my name, results are returned  
which include some of those comments, BUT
allmost always nothing of my comment is
there.  What is there is a portion of a   
comment made by someone else.  Obviously,
there is something wrong with the algo-
rithm used.  This error is not peculiar  
to Google.  All the major search engines
make the same error.  This problem has   
persisted for years.  In April of 2000
I first came online.  My question was:  
Can it be rectified?                       
                                         
-                                           
                                      
I recommend that you go to Money Rho and   
watch the Karl Denninger video, listening   
carefully to what he says.                   
                                          
-                                          
                                             
At Sprintedon Migrasaurus/ song lyrics 50  
is up.  Although I know others will enter  
my consciousness, my present mindset is   
to not post any more.  I'll just place them   
in the notebook I am using then.         
                                              
-                                          
                                          
There is a link to a long article over at   
Linh Dinh's blog.  It is entitled:  How   
to Survive the Coming Century.  This is  
that century.  If you read nothing else  
in it, read the last paragraph.  Chances  
are slim to none for our survival.      
                                        
-                                        
                                       
For positive news, do this search:          
fighting flu with engineered antibodies         
                                     
-                                        
                                        
Also this search if you need to know     
what caused the financial crisis:     
wired magazine gaussian copula function
                                       
-                                       
                                     
At Kyphotic Hermit/ links to posts by  
Joseph Hutchison and Adam Fieled on the   
topic of greatness wait for those of you  
who are interested.                       
                                         
                                             
                                      
                                         
                                        
                                         
                                          
rho00308

several thoughts

2009-03-03T23:19:00.003-06:00

           
                                   
                                   
Even if one does not favor it, it appears that  
the ideas of American Hybrid and of hybridity   
have, by consensus, won the day.  As a maker  
of poems and poem-like artifacts, definitely  
I am, and long have been, a hybrid; yet, I am   
not comfortable with that term.  [ Have you   
ever read any thing made by that hybrid slut,
baj salchert? ]  I would rather be known as a
u-f-o (utterly-futile-oddity) poet.  Notice:
I used "a" before "u-f-o" because the letter
"u" sounds like "you".  I put the "." outside
the second quotation mark for "you" because  
the "." represents the end of the sentence.  
It has nothing to do with "you".               
                                         
-                                           
                                         
Regarding my love(?) for poetry and a list   
of 20 books that fostered said love, forget
it.  Yes, there are poets and poems I could
list; and, of course, books (anthologies   
mostly) were where I first encountered them.
Surveys and questionnaires make my skin itch.
                                             
-                                             
                                           
I have some issues with Google and Blogger;
and since help files and forums also make  
my skin itch, I am trying to figure out my  
own ways around those issues.  Unfortunately,
the new and improved Followers messed up the
look of the bottom of this blog, and there's
nothing I can do about it.  One example of a 
work-around is: latest post info.               
                                            
-                                             
                                           
If David Orr's article on poetic greatness  
was meant to arouse discussion among poets,
it was an inordinate success.               
                                            
                                             
                                              
                                          
                                           
rho00307

Jim Kunstler's article

2009-03-02T16:51:00.002-06:00

        
                                   
                                 
As health care insurers were hit hard     
and the DOW fell to 6763.29, Mr. Kunstler  
turned his eyes toward other sectors in   
his What Next? post which      
focuses on the relationships between 
several no longer sustainable complex   
systems and what their likely fate is  
and what government moves need to be   
made in order to transition this nation
to more realistic modes of continuance.           
                                        
                                        
                                           
                                        
                                       
                                         
rho00306

01 Rae Armantrout

2009-03-01T14:15:00.005-06:00


                                         
                                        
On Silliman's Blog is a link to a Bookworm podcast  
from KCRW in Santa Monica, California.  The person  
interviewing this poet is Michael Silverblatt, of  
whom I knew nothing until today.  His questions    
are keen, but be sure your volume is high enough  
because he speaks more softly than she does.  Try
to listen carefully.  The program has two segments.
The poet reads one poem in each.  Two ideas about  
poems are discussed: the poem that disappears and 
the poem that explodes (or seems that it might).   
Note what personal facts Armantrout shares.  Also
her words about our civilization.                 
                                                  
KCRW Rae Armantrout podcast                    
                                               
                                                
Here are other links of interest:                    
-                                        
at AAofP          
-                                                   
at EPC           
-                                                
Rae Armantrout    
                                           
                                             
                                               
                                             
                                              
rho00305

28

2009-02-28T13:35:00.003-06:00

    
                                  
                                    
During the night and through and after dawn         
(angling west), snow.  Miniature flakes.  It
was heaviest around 8:20, and by 8:45 almost
imperceptible.                                
                                               
-                                                
                                               
This is the last day-date-only title.               
                                             
-                                           
                                               
Another minimal song lyric is arriving.               
                                             
-                                              
                                              
All my heuristic math projects are in what was   
Salchert's Weblog (Sprintedon Hollow) and now  
is Sprintedon Migrasaurus.  Don't know when,   
or even if, I will be posting more.  In 1994 in
Gainesville, Florida, I had a Kinko's store help
me put together ten copies of a hand-written  
work of nearly 600 pages: Meanderings of an   
Amateur Mathematician.  Fermat's Last Theorem  
was the focus of it.  Convinced there was a      
geometrical proof, I began to seriously toy     
with it when I was in the Iowa MFA Program  
(1965-1967), but I soon/ set it aside.  The  
mathematician now credited with proving that  
Fermat was right/ secretly forged on, driven
by his childhood dream.  At heart, what drives
me is a need to accomplish more than any in     
my immediate family's prior generation.  So   
far I am failing admirably.  One does what   
one can.  I do what I cannot.  For several   
years I maintained a site at ThirdAge.  In it
was a project: Number Theory Investigations.
That project has not yet been placed online   
again.  Uncertain about it.  I do know that 
someone made/ ten copies of it.                 
                                                
-                                              
                                               
I am not your usual blogger.  I am not your   
usual human.  Just had another dozing dream.
In it I lift a rug and two roaches scurry to
a different hiding place.  Why is it I drop  
into REM sleep so quickly?  Why is it these  
dreams are consistently weird?  I have an 
unexplainable fascination with Saturn's    
Titan moon.  A playlet I wrote/ orbits it.
                                              
-                                              
                                               
.1:21 -- Barely visible snow still.      
May have mentioned this, but because I   
have 6 posts of my old Tripod Brian's 
Brain log in this blog/ I will be posting 
the remainder of it in this blog.                           
                                                
                                                   
                                                
                                              
                                               
rho00304

27

2009-02-27T20:15:00.003-06:00

             
                                          
                                             
Living Contradictions by Adam Fieled
                                           
Read this PF post and the comments
                                                
Hybrid Likes and Dislikes by Mark Wallace
                                           
poems for Obama's first 100 days  
                                          
-                                                
                                             
At The Ghost in the Dumpster: 
a fun poem re Silliman's The Alphabet
                                                    
-                                                       
                                                    
At Money Rho: Closing Prices for 14 stocks                  
                                               
                                                      
                                                
                                           
                                               
                                                 
rho00303

26

2009-02-26T19:30:00.001-06:00

        
                                        
                                         
Yesterday was difficult through the morning.    
                                            
-                                             
                                           
After midnight there's a 50% chance of wetness.   
                                                 
-                                              
                                               
You never know what's around the corner           
unless you have a periscope, or command    
an advance guard snoop, or toss guesses    
into the air to see which way the winds
blow.  Cum see, cum saw, cum he haw haw          
                                          
-                                           
                                          
The DOW went down but 
the
bank stocks went up.           
                                   
-                                    

At Money Rho: When buyers no longer trust    
                                               
-                                          
                                             
Circumstances may have finally pushed me  
into becoming a vegetarian.                
                                         
-                                       
                                         
Watched a Murray Gell-Mann TED talk.          
                                             
-                                        
                                          
By my irreproachable reckoning     
Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery      
are magic carpet poets.                      
                                         
                                        
                                         
                                    
                                         
                                         
rho00302

25

2009-02-25T19:41:00.005-06:00

          
                                         
                                          
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rho00301

24

2009-02-24T16:47:00.005-06:00

  
                                       
                                          
At PM12:17 outside my bedroom window            
were starlings, robins, juncos, cardinals,    
and mourning doves.                                
                                          
-                                              
                                          
Earlier this morning in mildly chilly,   
windy and rainy weather, a secret 
device arrived.                                    
                                              
-                                           
                                         
Of the stocks I am tracking, the only one    
down today was ABX (the gold stock).           
                                             
-                                           
                                              
Was over at Silliman's Blog a few times.   
Read The Village Voice Michael Robbins    
interview conducted by Zach Baron, and   
then read Rob Mackenzie's insights about
Alien vs Predator.  See Mackinzie, Rob in 
Author list for link to his blog.  Later   
I left this comment:                        
*                                       
 2007-02-24                                
                                        
 Enjoying the ride is my response to
 poems by Wallace Stevens and John  
 Ashbery, both of whom I call magic   
 carpet poets.                      
                                   
 I am here via links at Silliman's    
 Blog, and I've read Zach Baron's   
 interview.                        
                                    
 About this poem by Michael Robbins--
 which I have read several times--I   
 noted in a blog post that it "flies  
 over my head"; but that's okay,     
 given the growing multitudes of     
 signs-upon-signs.  No one can be    
 aware of a nanospeck of what's avail-
 able.  At least this poem is not what    
 I might picture Murray Gell-Mann  
 writing.  I'm pleased Mr. Robbins
 writes poems that are not like--well,  
 he knows--even if he does give Rilke  
 a hard time in this poem.         
*                                     
                                        
-
                                           
Yes, the "7" s/h/b "9", but lately I've  
been in a 2007 rut.  At one point, fearing  
I might lose my comment when I submitted it,
I wrote it down in my notebook, and even as
I did that I did not notice I had "2007"    
instead of "2009".  God loves minds where   
dry seeds rattle around and nothing grows.
                                                                                
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Reminder at 10:17 PM:                                    
 Check each week to see if Kunstler          
 has written a new article.  The one   
 this week is: The Abyss Stares Back                                   
                                           
                                        
                                       
                                        
rho00300

23

2009-02-23T21:39:00.002-06:00

    
                                 
                                           
Was out shopping from 9 AM until near 1 PM.     
                                               
-                                           
                                              
While I was away the stock market was    
into a run below 7200 for the djia.    
                                         
-                                          
                                   
Have visited several blogs, and am trying    
to digest a revelation which had been near
the surface of my subconscious but had not   
impressed itself upon me as strongly as it  
did during the night.  Not saying more yet.    
                                              
-                                             
                                             

an exceptional, heartening TED talk:        
Elizabeth Gilbert on Genius                
                                                
                                         
                                         
                                           
                                            
                                       
rho00299

22

2009-02-22T12:34:00.003-06:00


                                    
                                     
*                                                
                                          
"I write because I would like to live forever."       
                                                    
"I have an intense desire to rescue those things    
that have touched me and place them somewhere   
for safekeeping, which is both impossible and   
utterly necessary."                                   
                                                  
"There is no guarantee that one will reach any     
of one's goals in this life.  But not to struggle   
toward those goals is to guarantee that they       
won't be achieved."                                
                                                 
"And never to forget beauty, however strange     
or difficult."                                    
                                                 
*                                                 
                                                
The above are quotes from Reginald Shepherd's    
Why I Write revised.             
                                                
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-                                                 
                                               
                                              
                                              
                                              
                                               
rho00298

21

2009-02-21T09:38:00.009-06:00

          
                                     
                                    
9:00 AM --  Between the buildings the rollin' gusts
can get to grousin' 'n' howlin' some.  That is what
it was doin' durin' the dark hours.  So when I op'd
the drapes/ seein' snow and juncos wasn't a shock,  
but the robin in the sturdy bush which appears to be
in a budding mood--not sure what it felt.  The air's
still billowin' some, but the snow clouds have gone
on toward the east and light has overlaid things in
those places where it can.                           
                                                    
-                                                    
                                                     
9:17 AM -- If I'm able to gather the necessaries    
for it, wiil be posting in Kyphotic Hermit later.
                                                      
-                                                     
                                                    
At Joshua Corey's blog are reports and videos of    
a Lake Forest Festival.  Here's an e-whip to the
second report/ wherein don't miss the aria sung   
by Christian Bök, the likes of which will sting
your ears and shake your brain.                    
                                              
-                                             
                                                
Two poems from a year 2000 stock market memoir
are now in Scatterings at S M.        
                                           
-                                            
                                              
7:20 PM -- Have a link to an interview up at K H:
              Tom Beckett with K Silem Mohammad.
                                                      
                                                      
                              
                                              
                                         
                                          
                                        
rho00297

20

2009-02-20T19:36:00.002-06:00

          
                                         
                                           
At Money Rho later a post named Developments.
                                                   
-                                                    
                                                    
Have been making changes again here.  Went to     
weekly archiving, set main page to 7 posts, and          
moved Archives to second last position.  Also     
added www.minyanville.com and www.ted.com
to Not-Ads General list.  Literary and related    
will be getting 100dayspoems.blogspot.com/.     
                                                
-                                             
                                               
A goodly number of the sites I visit display           
blog lists.  The destinations in these provide  
insights.  Their formats provide other insights.
It's a who's popular with whom kind of thing    
for the most part.  Age seems to matter too
though there are exceptions.                    
                                                 
-                                              
                                          
Watched a TED video about the TED project     
for over an hour this morning.  Wasn't able   
to watch all of it because at 8:35 I had to   
leave this room.  I had watched several TED  
videos/ before engaging this one, but here    
is a program video from earlier this month:
Juan Enriquez and Homo Evolutis                                         
                                              
                                              
                                             
                                           
                                              
                                            
rho00296

19

2009-02-19T19:30:00.002-06:00

          
                                   
                                        
Market hit a new low.  One analyst has said that
he expects a market bottom in June or July 2009.   
                                                 
-                                                
                                                 
Count me with those who are against foreclosure.   
                                                 
-                                                 
                                                 
Lord of the Flies   
                                                                   
-                                                
                                                
Had to stop eating the cold meat I bought.       
The dryness of it makes it too hard to chew.         
                                               
-                                               
                                             
Perfection is a delicacy.                   
Let those who care to/ eat it.                  
                                             
-                                           
                                             
When the end came, I was asleep.                
                                             
-                                       
                                        
Something is happening in blogland        
that I am not privy to.                      
                                        
                                             
                                              
                                             
                                       
rho00295

18

2009-02-18T18:50:00.003-06:00

       
                                         
                                       
This morning over at KSM's I responded to     
Jordan's response to my original comment.  I  
have written it in my notebook but won't be   
placing it here.  Then a semi-dark individual,
having determined it was necessary, laid out  
a proper definition of capitalism.  Probably it  
was just as well; but, alas, my simple-dimple
definition done got misunderstood.  Shoulda     
known.  So I'll be replacing it. 
                                               
-                                                
                                                   
About 4:05 this afternoon the outside temp was    
in the mid 50's.  So went out to get my mail.   
The wind out of the northwest was so brusk in
the breezeway, I felt I was in a refrigerator.   
Got the mail anyway, but almost lost my cap    
when I came back in.                           
                                             
-                                              
                                              
Capitalism
                                                              
-                                                 
                                                 
On Don Share's blog today was a related poem        
by Paul Blackburn.                     
                                             
-                                                
                                           
Analysts are conflicted regarding what to do      
about the two zombie banks: BofA and Citi.         
                                           
                                               
                                               
                                             
                                              
rho00294

17

2009-02-17T22:49:00.007-06:00

         
                                          
                                          
At S M is a very short song lyrics post.
It came to me during my sleep time.           
                                           
-                                           
                                           
I sometimes go to another blog on a whim,
and I often find something meaningful to me.   
That happened today at Noah Cicero's, Loren  
Webster's, and Mark Wallace's.  Wallace had
a post I left a fairly long comment beneath.
His post is: 
Michael Theune on Third Way Poetics              
and my comment is the fifth one.                
*                                           
 Third Way does not qualify as a movement.
 It may qualify as a category name for a   
 poet who does not wish to be associated   
 with any coterie and with coteries whose
 members contend their poetics keep them    
 outside of accepted historical movements.
                                               
 Michael Theune obviously knows more about    
 contemporary poets than many of us do,    
 and I think it would be good if he pro-  
 vided a list beyond what he has provided  
 here.                                       
                                          
 Such a variety of approaches to language   
 occurred in the 20th Century that many      
 now feel free to do as they please.          
                                          
 Several days ago Joseph Hutchison placed       
 a link to D. A. Powell in a post on his    
 blog.  I knew of Powell before his ap-  
 pearance at Harriet, but I hadn't seen  
 a photo of him nor read a biography of  
 him nor read an essay on poetics by him.
 All these are at AAP.  The photo has a   
 haunting quality, the biography explains   
 the photo, and the essay substantiates    
 the biography.  It is a fine essay.  I  
 was most struck by Powell's simile/         
 metaphor/metonomy reasoning: each thing   
 is its own thing; no thing is another   
 thing; no thing is like another thing.    
 This is why simile and metaphor have/  
 lost the power they once had.  Does    
 this place him closer to the so-called   
 Language poets?  Can't say.           
                                        
 What I can say is that the technologies
 created by humans/ moved the experiences
 of the everyday away from simple unities  
 and toward more complex atomizations.    
 Now we get such questions as:  "Is God   
 a mathematician?"  Better stop before I  
 disappear over a cliff.                  
                                             
-                                          
                                         
A response from one Jordan Davis to me  
regarding the capitalism part of my #70   
comment at Kasey S. Mohammad's Lime Tree
showed up in the stream there.  It is a  
good response.  I knew I might get in   
trouble over it.  Tomorrow I'll try to  
respond back.                             
                                         
-                                              
                                           
AAP means American Academy of Poets.   
D. A. Powell  
A link to his essay is on the right.          
                                        
                                           
                                          
                                                
                                        
                                       
rho00293

16

2009-02-16T21:09:00.002-06:00

     
                                    
                                   
Visit with GP was okay.  Had more blood drawn.
This time for a platelets test.  Given how the   
day-to-day for me has been, I'm ready for just   
about anything.  Bought a slice of pumpkin pie   
after the visit.  Back here with it, I ate it  
a bit too fast.  During the 6 PM hour I ate a   
small can of sliced beets.  It is now 7:55 PM
and the beets are annoying my stomach.  After  
8:30 I need to drink one of those high-calorie
nutrition nasties and take my head pill.         
                                                   
-                                                    
                                                 
The following is comment 70 beneath KSM's     
"Dale Smith Deals Death Blow to Flarf" post:          
*                                          
 KSM is quite sharp and quite subtle.  To me,       
 he's not backing off one millimeter from his
 aesthetic persuasion as a Flarfist.  An         
 author makes what that author is moved to   
 make.  That is how it is, and is how it/    
 should be.  And if an author does forsake   
 one persuasion for another, so what?  As   
 to capitalism, my basic definition of it is:
 capitalism = something to sell + plus some-
 one to buy it.  The comment thread here is   
 interesting and someways useful, but even   
 if no money changes hands because of it,    
 its roots are the capitalist ones of power,
 fame, wealth.  So says baj (as in garage).
 Toodles                                   
                                              
-                                           
                                           
Plan to buy a blender so I can get better 
food in me than what I've been eating.  A    
gas pain reminded me my doctor also said 
that it may take a while before I'll know    
how effective the dilation was.  I was    
given information before the procedure,  
and one of the points was about expecting  
gas, a normal side effect.  If, however,  
it builds up in my stomach and doesn't     
find a way out, I will need to contact   
the doctor who did the procedure.           
                                              
-                                              
                                             
If after a human dies, that's it--no spirit   
that lives on--that human will never know it.
                                                 
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                                     
                                               
rho00292

15

2009-02-15T09:46:00.003-06:00


                                          
                                        
9:21 AM
Not in forecast but obviously a cloud with   
light snow in it passed.                        
                                                
-                                        
                                             
Am reading the first essay in Allan Bloom's  
book, and am also reading the preface for  
Crash Proof by Peter D. Schiff.           
                                         
-                                             
                                             
Have been involved with mostly computer          
maintenance routines so far.                
                                           
-                                          
                                        
Will be posting the minimal song lyrics for  
"When" in a few minutes.                       
                                             
-                                           
                                         
Just so you know: I do not mind if a comment  
I post on another person's blog gets rejected.
                                              
-                                             
                                             
Seems I am constantly trying to re-imagine the past.
                                                    
-                                                    
                                                    
At 3:33 PM "Carousel" song lyrics (sl47) posted.
                                                    
                                               
                                                                     
                                                 
                                              
                                              
rho00291

14

2009-02-14T20:23:00.003-06:00


                                       
                                    
During the early morning hours some song lyrics  
came to me, but I have no title for them yet; so
I figure I'll post them tomorrow.                
                                                    
-                                             
                                                 
Post 17 at Kyphotic Hermit is up, or down, or  
off-center: I Cant Stand Being Human    
                                                  
-                                                
                                                 
Read this short post by Bill Knott: smile.         
                                          
-                                         
                                           
Just remember: some boys who live in France   
are some places known as French fries.                
                                             
-                                         
                                          
In the future I will be linked with            
Ogden Nash and Dorothy Parker.                     
                                               
                                               
                                                   
                                           
rho00290

13

2009-02-13T21:51:00.002-06:00

       
                                       
                                    
Made a silly poemoid out of the nickname       
I gave myself.  And here it is!
                                                 
-                                               
                                              
The air was frisky today/ but warm enough   
to be tolerable for a normal person.  I,   
as you know, am sub-normal; so I had to  
layer my cover: undershirt, long-sleeved
corduroy shirt, wind breaker.  Took an   
empty cookie carton which I'd placed in   
a box made for a dozen fancy donuts/ up &   
over to the dumpster.  On the walk back I 
retrieved my mail which happened to be 
just two letters, thank you.                                   
                                                
-                                           
                                             
At Money Rho I started what I am labeling   
salcherts weekly stock watch.  Nothing fancy.
There are eleven stocks in this one.  
                                               
-                                           
                                            
Will soon be a new rumination in Kyphotic Hermit
and hopefully the continuation of Brian's Brain  
in Sprintedon Migrasaurus.                      
                                                    
                                                 
                                                    

                               
                                              
                                                
                                                    
                                                   
rho00289

12

2009-02-12T21:35:00.004-06:00

         
                                         
                                        
8:05 PM -- President Abraham Lincoln's 
birthday remembrance bicentennial.       
                                             
-                                          
                                           
Frost on the hip roofes and the lawn    
early this morning.  Airy clouds.    
In general a pleasant day.                
                                     
-                                       
                                     
If I can motivate me sufficiently,       
will be posting at Money Rho some             
thoughts about personal and family        
finances.  It will be both basic and  
slightly advanced.  Possible title:   
Protect Inspect Inject Protect.           
The purpose is to provide steps,   
especially for younger people, to   
perpetual solvency.  Little in it   
will originate from me, but will be
general knowledge I have culled 
and organized.                          
                                    
-                                   
                                   
Four up and four down today, with
CNO below $2.00 & BAC below $6.00.        
                                     
-                                        
                                       
Read a comment I need to read again.   
If I find it, I will present the gist of it    
here.  Found it, but can't change it.  It's
beneath Silliman's 2009-02-10 list of links.
It's Gary B. Fitzgerald's comment.                                
                                         
-                                                
                                                
Have begun reading Alan Bloom's 
Giants and Dwarfs.                             
                                                         
                                                    
                                               
                                                
                                                    
rho00288

11

2009-02-11T19:00:00.002-06:00

    
                                       
                                   
5:12 PM -- Rainy windy throughout the morning
and cloudy cold through the afternoon.  I was   
gone for a needed esophageal procedure.  Was
expecting to be extremely hungry.                 
                                                
-                                                 
                                               
DJIA went up a little and all 8 stocks on my
watch list went up.  This bear market seems  
to be stalking.                                
                                               
-                                               
                                              
6:27 PM -- Was told this might happen.  True,     
I do doze off while at this keyboard, but I--
and talk about hungry, my hunger went as far    
as one multivitamin and some nutrition drink   
sips, afterwhich (a sandwhich you eat after  
you die) I head to the toilet to pass a tiny
thank you piss.                              
                                                 
-                                               
                                              
If you ever have your esophagus dilated, be
near a toilet moments later/ because when the
odd-liquid void hits, its hits like a flash flood. 
                                                  
-                                                
                                                 
For the longest while I hadn't been getting
any calls on my land line.  Lately I have    
been getting several each day.  Someone is   
trying to annoy me.  That someone is.  I do  
not answer my land line, and if I can keep    
the smidgen of sanity I yet have, I will not   
ever again answer my land line/ even if it is
E. A. Poe or Alfred H..                      
                                              
-                                              
                                             
Wizzards and gizzards in winter blizzards!
En garde! -- Cliche!                 
                                             
-                                           
                                             
6:54 PM -- It's about time the heat went on.  
                                               
                                        
                                
                                               
                                               
                                              
                                       
rho00287

10

2009-02-10T18:40:00.006-06:00

       
                                       
                                       
3:41 PM -- Mostly cloudy but unusually warm   
along with an unusual gathering in the yard.
The juncos which come through here are said   
to be a winter bird.  First flock of them I
have seen, however, arrived this afternoon.  
Robins in these parts are Spring birds, but  
there is one robin out there, and mourning  
doves with their whistling wings have been  
in and out.  Don't know where the cardinal
pair are.  Do know I expect to be shutting  
down and unplugging this system tonight.    
                                             
-                                          
                                           
When compressed, b a j = baj; baj equals   
bad ass jerk (a new kind of dance), or =   
bury ashes joyfully.  Baj baj  baj baj baj
think i'm gonna  live in a garage  Shadows
can be  my entourage  baj baj  baj baj baj
                                           
-                                           
                                             
Market down nearly 400 points but one of the
stocks I am watching went up.                 
*                                              
Traders were not helped by what came out of   
Washington.  It's going to be a rough ride.    
*                                           
See J. H. Kunstler's Poverty of Imagination  
                                          
-                                           
                                         
6:34 PM -- Hope is the only word for tomorrow.
                                               
                                              
                                               
                                              
                                         
                                           
                                          
rho00286

09

2009-02-09T19:13:00.003-06:00

          
                                               
                                          
Nothing at Money Rho but one new link.          
All the stocks I'm following went up.          
                                          
-                                         
                                       
William Michaelian and I and others           
are trying to reduce the number of    
anger bubbles in PoetryLand.  It is      
impossible.  Opinions too engrained  
stand against us.  Yet we will, as   
we always have, continue to support
making over the imperatives of makers.
                                         
-                                         
                                        
News from 400 years ago.  Galileo garnered   
the glory and suffered from the ire of those  
who were haughty in a different manner from  
how he was haughty.  However, unbeknownst    
to them, an extremely brilliant, humane,   
quiet Englishman named Thomas Harriot, was
the first to draw maps of the moon after    
viewing it through a telescope.  In the UK   
on July 26 of this year there will be a      
celebration honoring Harriot and his work
in the field of astronomy.  Here is more 
about this polymath.  And here is a crafty
video of the Indigo Girls singing their   
Galileo.  Try not to miss the text of the
last message.                          
                                   
                                       
                                     
                                        
                                     
                                     
rho00285

08

2009-02-08T21:54:00.004-06:00

   
                                         
                                        
How can one be creatively centrist while also being
far left and far right and who-knows-where between?
By cultivating an adventurous openness.             
                                                          
-                                                        
                                                    
Posted a comment beneath bubbling BAC about its
strange chart action 2009-02-05.                        
                                                        
-                                                      
                                                     
Nada Gordon is not a guy, and yet she is.             
She's a guy (as in that which braces) for   
the Flarf experience.                           
                                                     
                                                
                                                    
                                                 
                                                 
                                              
rho00284

07

2009-02-07T21:17:00.003-06:00


                                        
                                              
Events conspired to sidetrack my intentions today.
                                                 
Adam Fieled, a young 33, who is trying to define  
his aesthetic ideology, wrote in a post about the
history-centered Jerome McGann: "I can say this:
we want to keep the 'base' of what the Lang-Po crew     
erected, but we want sensation, sex, humanity,   
emotion, and narrative again."  The more I thought   
about this post, the more I saw/ I am a centrist.  
                                                   
Henry Gould has inaugurated The Plumbline School
of poetry, a profoundly centrist entity.          
                                                
But as with everything else, there is more than
one way to be a centrist, and I do not feel I   
would feel comfortable outside my own vision.          
                                                
-                                                 
                                                   
Have more to say about BAC's strange chart    
on Thursday past.                             
                                                 
-                                             
                                             
Want to see something really strange?       
Enter the space above my ceiling: 16.        
                                          
                                          
                                               
                                          
                                           
                                           
rho00283

06

2009-02-06T19:07:00.005-06:00

             
                                          
                                           
Each blog now has a few words beneath its title.
                                               
-                                                
                                                
Unless an extraordinary event occurs, trading
figures for stocks I am tracking will only be
posted weekly.                                
                                                
-                                                
                                             
Back in 2000 I began a journal/diary sequence
called Brian's Brain in Tripod, a place I was
eventually forced to leave.  Presently there      
are 6 sections of it in Rhodingeedaddee.  I    
finally decided today that I will be posting    
the remainder of it in Sprintedon Migrasaurus.
Accordingly I have labeled those here in Rho--
brians brain and have inserted a link to them in        
S M's Internal Link List.                                    
                                                
-                                                
                                                
Rule 4:                                          
Jesus rarely became passionately angry,
but sometimes a higher love takes precedence.
The day he threw the money changers out of     
his Father's temple was one of those times.

                                           
                                          
                                           
                                          
                                           
                                          
rho00282

05

2009-02-05T20:45:00.002-06:00

         
                                     
                                           
Is music transcended mathematics?                
                                     
-                                       
                                       
Added 24/7 Wall St to link list at Money Rho.           
                                               
-                                           
                                              
A precipitous drop through yesterday and into today
saw BAC hit a new low of $3.77 but then head up.    
The volume was extra heavy, and after-hours trading 
saw the stock rise above $5.00.                      
                                                   
-                                                    
                                                    
Once I find where I hid my small stock market memoir
I will put that up at Money Rho.                      
                                                     
-                                                   

Rule 3:                                                      
If you recall Jesus's parable of the talents,  
you know we are enjoined to use our means to 
learn and share new means, to improve our lives
and the lives of others.  
                                    
                                                 
                                           
                                                                                               
rho00281

04

2009-02-04T21:45:00.003-06:00

       
                                    
                                  
Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 7956.66 today.
See my comments beneath GNW, WCG, BAC, and CNO
posts at Money Rho.                                 
                                                    
-                                                    
                                                  
Added Mayflower (the ship, i.e.) descendent        
to Author List.  Another young vibrant author. 
                                                 
-                                               
                                               
If the efforts of the Aquarian Conspiracy humans   
succeed, Earth's future--which these days seems   
dangerously dark--will be radiant beyond belief.   
                                                 
-                                             
                                               
Rule 2:  Love, and do so gently, consistently,         
                        and without bias.          
                                              
                                               
                                                 
                                                 
                                                   
                                                  
                                              
rho00280

03

2009-02-03T19:03:00.002-06:00

         
                                     
                                       
Under Literary and related I added a link to
Robert G. Shubinski's Glossary of Poetic Terms.    
                                                    
-                                              
                                             
Shareholder discontent continues to put pressure on
BAC which closed down again: today to $5.30 on high  
volume.  Reminds me of 1987.                                   
*                                                
WCG: $15.63C / CNO: $2.03C / GNW: $2.39C / ING was up.
                                                      
-                                                       
                                                     
Rule 1:  Always live within your means.                 
                                                   
                                                  
                                                      
                                                     
                                                 
                                                    
                                                   
rho00279

02

2009-02-02T21:35:00.004-06:00


                                  
                                   
Have three ideas for posts in Kyphotic Hermit
but none is ready yet.                          
                                             
-                                             
                                            
GNW (Genworth Financial Inc) is new in   
Money Rho.                                
                                         
-                                           
                                           
Tomorrow is a one-item voting day here.     
                                        
-                                          
                                           
At least 5 servings of vegetables and    
5 of fruit each day.  Plums, peaches,
nectarines.  Plums may be better than
blueberries for fighting diseases, but
eat the skin.  Plums are cheaper.        
                                     
-                                       
                                        
At S M/ sl45-Gone.  Added a link to 
Song Lyrics.  See 
booklets/books of my poems and.
                                           
                                             
                     
                                             
                                             
rho00278

01

2009-02-01T22:02:00.002-06:00

         
                                        
                                       
Have been moving and changing extra items in  
Rhodingeedaddee and Sprintedon Migrasaurus.  
                                              
-                                               
                                              
Did get some necessary personal tasks done.           
                                              
-                                           
                                         
At S M are new song lyrics: sl44-He Knows.             
                                             
-                                           
                                           
Clear and mildly crisp today, but the next   
two days will be colder.                   
                                             
-                                          
                                           
Need to go to bed early tonight 
in the hope that I will be able 
to take a medication that I was  
prevented from taking today by  
unexpected circumstances.  Or  
something to that defect.                  
                                               
                                   
                                       
                                       
                                     
                                     
rho00277

31

2009-01-31T21:45:00.003-06:00


                                     
                                        
Really ought to dedicate February to clearing
out the clutter in this apartment.  When the  
pressure rises to where I can't stand myself  
any longer, I will/ abandon these blogs until
the pressure subsides to a tolerable level.  
                                              
-                                               
                                             
Sprintedon Migrasaurus, which now has 1021 posts,
has a site map worth perusing and using.  If you  
prefer more specific information, you will need  
to scroll to near the bottom of the page where   
the labels are.  Guess I should put a link in to
them, if I can.                                   
                                                 
-                                                
                                                
Most of the comments at Money Rho are mine.  
Update stuff.  Entered one at WCG, BAC, and   
CNO earlier.  All of these companies are in  
trouble.  Still, I wouldn't short them.  A
perfect upside trade situation developed at
CNO beginning on November 20, 2008.  That  
was a down day on the market.  CNO closed  
at $1.78 that day.  The stock was trading
from just below $2.00 to just above $3.00
and so could be expected to move back to  
that price or higher.  It's previous high  
above $3.00 was $3.16.  It did move up,   
and when it did, it established a new    
trading range.  On November 28, 2008, an
up day on the market, it closed at $3.38.
It was then the new trading range--above
$2.50 and below $3.90--began.  Analyst   
consensus had it rated a buy when it
was in the old trading range, and that
didn't change.  In December a dividend  
was declared for holders of record as of
December 31, 2008.  Now, I had no idea   
how high CNO's stock would rise, but I  
knew dividends draw investors.  I also   
knew that after December the price of   
the stock would decline.  Circumstances
have me sidelined.  Surprisingly, and   
this is the salient fact, CNO rose to a
high of $5.19 on December 31.  Just do  
the math.  Remember, here is a stock    
which is barely investment grade; yet  
it is outperforming the market by a  
huge margin.  Say you bought a mere   
50 shares at $2.00 a share on 11/20/08.
Do you hold through December so you   
can get the dividend, or do you sell your
50 shares at, say, $5.00?  Of course  
there will be a commission that will
need to be paid upon the purshase and  
again upon the sale.  Say $50.00 is   
that commission.  The dividend was
about 0.10 per share.  100 + 50 = 150.  
250 - 50 = 200.  200 - 150 = 50, a gain 
of 25%; and 50 x 0.10 = 5, a gain of 
5% ($5.00).  The stock would have to
be at $4.90 when you sold it in 2009
in order the get the $50.00 selling it
at $5.00 on December 31 would have
given you.  On January 2, $4.71 was    
the closing price.  Nonetheless, I say:
Take it when you have it.                
                                     
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All the immediately above information 
should have been posted at Money Rho.
Some of it is.  But a surprise email  
arrived this morning, and it is what  
prompted me to make this disclosure.
                                        
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At S M are the song lyrics for sl43,
Dreams Edge.                             
                                         
                                   
                                        
                                        
                                       
                                        
                                       
rho00276

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2009-01-30T20:58:00.003-06:00

        
                                  
                                        
DJIA  down $148.15, slightly above $8000.       
                                                
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Around 47 for a high today, but snow remains 
where it was mostly shady.  May melt tomorrow   
since it should be 10 degrees warmer near 3 PM.  
                                                
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Some poets are number nuts.  My number nuttiness
is peculiar.  I am not a statistics nut.             
                                                
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Have been investigating Derrida and deconstruction.    
Found out I had read books by two of his followers.   
I remember concluding that if one deconstructs        
one's own writing also, the whole idea becomes    
ludicrous.  Tried to write a poem about it.  Have
not seen that poem in years.  It is in hiding.    
Although it is incomplete, see this Wikipedia       
article on Deconstruction and note in particular
Michel Foucault's opinion of Derrida and of   
French philosophy.                              
                                                 
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Skipping Money Rho today.                        
                                             
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A "Don't fall" melody (for which there are           
other words) has been wandering through my    
consciousness.  However, until it settles   
into a solid form, it can just wander.    
                                          
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May have more than 30 books on investing.         
                                                
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In order to facilitate ease of use,       
now that I have gone to this blog notes   
format, I moved the About Me and the     
my other blogs    sections    to the top.  
                                                
                                         
                                          
                                          
                                        
rho00275

29

2009-01-29T18:40:00.002-06:00

         
                                       
                                       
DJIA down over 200.           
Statistics for WCG, BAC, and CNO           
at Money Rho.                          
                                     
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WalletPop, a link to which              
is in my Not-Ads General,         
often has valuable articles.                       
                                 
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New on Author list: Landis, Matthew           
                                    
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New on Literary and related:              
abecedarian/f(x) Derrida Celan post                    
                                            
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Dale Smith is drawing heavy attention.          
                                             
                                         
                                           
                                       
                                         
                                         
rho00274

28

2009-01-28T21:26:00.003-06:00

        
                                          
                                           
At Money Rho I commented beneath 
WCG, BAC, and CNO.                        
                                    
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Visited the four blogs I follow         
and also several others.                 
                                  
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During the night the intermittent   
ice pellets and rain which froze    
when it landed/ changed to, as   
the weather service I use put it:  
light snow mist.  Seems about an   
inch accumulated.  Then the sky    
and scattered clouds.                     
                                       
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John Latta seemed to indicate that   
The Grand Piano venture has ended.   
He has tracked the entire length of it.    
                                         
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Please do avail yourself of the links             
in the sidebar left.  I'm heading back   
to Aaron Apps's site.                   
                                        
                                        
                                         
                                           
                                          


rho00273

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2009-01-27T20:20:00.003-06:00


                                     
                                               
Made comments at Money Rho.                      
                                     
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Also at Dale Smith's Possum Ego
where a conversation between him and
Drew Gardner had begun and may or may not
continue.          
                                          
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At S M:  sl42-Git                                   
           -- a song lyric in a different style --     
                                                      
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Expect to be adding link in Author list                
to Jodi Dean's blog.  (Thank you, Dale Smith.)             
                                                      
                                               
                                               
                                                
                                              
                                                 
rho00272

26

2009-01-26T20:54:00.004-06:00

     
                                  
                                    
Added Unreliable Narrator to Author list         
late last night.  (See Don Share.)      
                                          
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In a response comment on his Possum Ego blog,  
this from Dale Smith:                          
 "Frankly, I doubt anyone will be hearing    
these conversations for much longer.  We're
all going to be struggling to survive the  
most nasty global shutdown in human history.
The ponzi thing always crumbles."             
                                             
Also click on Kunstler, J. H. in the Not-Ads
General list to read his latest post.             
                                              
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Two possibilities (from my perspective) are:
1. Humans will find a way to evolve beyond    
    our fossil and fiscal foolishnesses.   
2. Humans will be forced to return to 
    less complex ways of living.                
                                              
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At Money Rho: bubbling BAC, a post about  
               Bank of America               
                                       
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At the Unreliable Narrator look for the long
2009-01-25 The Spectrum post.  Way down in it 
she gives possible names for the poets of  
this time.  I favor the "Pre-Apocalyptics".    
                                              
                                               
                                         
                                           
                                          
rho00271

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2009-01-25T18:22:00.004-06:00

    
                                       
                                              
At Money Rho:  first post on BAC              
                                         
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At Money Rho:  There was a comment beneath         
                 mr00007; therefore, I          
placed a reply comment.                       
                                             
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"What if a much of a which of a wind"
                                           
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Added Jared Carter (see Todd Swift)    
and Jeff Stumpo (see Joseph Hutchison)
to Author list; and, no, I am not     
trying to catch up with Ron Silliman.     
          
                                               
                                             
                                              
                                              
                                               
rho00270