On S M: song lyrics for a minimal song entitled The Antelopes. - Placed a fourth comment beneath my CNO post at Money Rho. - Expect to be changing the comment in this blog's header. - Am considering other changes. Being both chameleon and wind, it is natural for me to change. Something's amiss in what I just wrote. After all, doesn't my being a human make it natural for me to change? Anything to avoid being human. - If you haven't been to Don Share's blog, click on his name in this blog's Author List. - Just added a new Bill Knott blog to Author List and the first post to it to Literary. rho00259
Thursday, January 15, 2009
2009-01-15
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
2009-01-14
Busy day away today. The doctor said all's okay even/ if it isn't. Anyway, I will have to make do. Hope today was a better day/ for you. - Recently added Sharon Mesmer to author list. She is a singular person/ far beyond A D B. - On Money Rho I made a third comment beneath my CNO post. - Spent of my time online at Don Share's blog and a Harriet. Made a comment on Mark Nowak's Snodgrass post, and read the 39 comments wriggling under Kenny Goldsmith's post. Don't know why some think only adversarial poetry's worthy of praise. Has it occurred to anyone that Goldsmith's Conceptual work and Flarf and various other avant practices are types of Found Poetry? How about categorizing poets by their levels of wealth. The results might be--if they could be verified. rho00258
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Rhodingeedaddee
from this day forward will serve as a bulletin board for itself and for my other in-use blogs. See prior post. It is likely that most of the comments beneath any given post will be update comments from me. I will also be providing links to posts of interest on other blogs as I encounter them. I do not visit all the blogs in my Author List every day. Because I made a change in a 2009/01/11 post on my Sprintedon Migrasaurus yesterday, my internal info shows postings to all my in-use blogs on 2009/01/12. - Here is a list of what was posted: * Who Is It? song lyrics on S M 800-billion-obama-stimulus on M R Sometimes I think on K H In Spiritu on T G My other blogs on this blog.
Monday, January 12, 2009
My other blogs
are my hidden Flutterby, which is empty and may always be; Kyphotic Hermit at kyphotichermit.blogspot.com/, a place for occasional ruminations; Money Rho at moneyrho.blogspot.com/, a place for money-related investigations centering on stock trading and investing; Sprintedon Migrasaurus at thinkinglizard.blogspot.com/, a place which used to be in AOL Journals and is the oldest and largest of my blogs-- in it are my heuristic math projects and the majority of my poems, and much more with more on the way; The Ghost in the Dumpster at tgitd.blogspot.com/, the place where my current poems and poemoids are. rho00256
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Sunday, January 4, 2009
If it were only that simple
we would be living the Lennon dream, but humans are/ flawed animals, and I don't like being/ a flawed animal, and I don't like/ living among// other/ flawed/ animals. Here are links to two of my artifacts-- one originally from 1960 and one from 2007: - from First Verses - from Venturings - Neither of these is special other than in its message. Question on this, another sad day: - If the Israelis ceased being hostile to Palestinians, would the Palestinians cease being hostile to Israelis? Rant: - God in Heaven I deplore religions guided by humans. They find more slick ways to make them evil than even the Devil can imagine. Thought: - Money is not the root of all evil, though ways money is used may be. Thought Two: - Caucasians are not a super race of humans, nor is any other race of humans. Thought Three: - The "Divine Right of Kings" has nothing to do with divinity; it's just a ruse utilized by a line of royalty to garner undeserved fealties for its kings and queens. Thought Four: - Hegemony is power and pride devoid of honor and empathy. Thought Five: - In the Lord's Prayer, the prayer Jesus taught his apostles, is this passage: ". . . and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; . . ."-- now, this passage is often said but seldom closely regarded. Indeed, how many seriously think about the "as" in it? That "as" means "to the degree in which" or: Father Creator, I assert here that You do not need to forgive me any more deeply than I am willing to forgive others. Thought Six: - Jesus preached: "You have heard it said that you should love your neighbor as you love yourself, but I say to you you should also love your enemy; for loving your neighbor is easy, but because loving your enemy is more difficult, it is more pleasing to God." [ My translation. ] ** Here's a link to another of my artifacts, one that is in my book from November of 1972: The Marriage of God and Money ** Thought Seven: - [ ] Rho00254
Saturday, January 3, 2009
I am bajs
and wildernesses compass me who dozes in his thoughts, tumbles into mini-dreams, then jerks awake, confounded by/ things askew. About and about on poet blogs these recent days, category skirmishes in posts and comments well and wriggle; and even I, foolish elf, have placed a note or two there and there. Actually, though it may yet be too soon to fathom, I doubt the participants will alter each other's thinkings in any significant ways. The best that can come of these dis-cussions is that 1) the instigators of and the responders to/ them will learn how to stop talking past each other 2) a growth in understanding and tolerance will occur I am not on one side or the other; still, if someone were to attend all my artifacts, that someone might be able to find a box to place me in. The one box I have placed myself in is the It poetics box. Even when I plan ahead, i.e., have set an overriding aesthetic for what I intend to make, the thing, the it, being made takes precendence. Poem, ditty, muttob, poemoid; or slight and silly, determinate, indeterminate, dense and dusky, goulash: the artifact rules. As I recall, this current round of investigations began with K. Silem Mohammad's Relevance posts, and when Seth Abramson joined in/ it shifted to trying to displace Ron Silliman's long-standing School of Quietude / Post-Avant divisions. Mr. Abramson took a sociological rather than an aesthetics approach, though it wasn't obvious to some. Others frolicking in the fray were Joseph Hutchison, Adam Fieled, and Johannes Göransson. There were more, a few of whom only cantered in comment spaces. I did both, sort of, and along the way discovered what seemed to me to be an excellent name for a famous football player: Aristophanes Juvenal Boccaccio. It's a name that has a rhythm to it, a name a crowd of fans could chant. Definitely, a number of fine insights have arisen, but go to where the posts are. Rho00253
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Money Rho
is a new blog begun today. Have decided not to post money-related information in Rhodingeedaddee in 2009 and years beyond, though I may have only days beyond. Rho00252
about an AU ADR
from Tuesday December 30th, 2008 Money Morning By Horacio Marquez Contributing Editor Buy, Sell or Hold: NYSE ADR: BHP Rho00250
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
6 Romantic poets today
So this morning while in the kitchen a curious wondering dallied within: What would Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats; and, oh, Clare be like today? Here are some guesses: William Blake: mystical visual poet William Wordsworth: angular nature poet S T Coleridge: philosophical beat poet Lord Byron: actively anarchistic flarf poet P B Shelley: atheistic vegetarian performance poet John Keats: formalist indeterminate poet John Clare: deranged clandestine nature poet Rho00249
Sunday, December 28, 2008
AOL Pictures
will no longer be AOL Pictures by year's end, and I'd moved some already; but, because of a glitch, I moved all 51 today. This meant I had to search for duplicates since I had made 80 moves. The first one came up corrupted. It is now in the Recycle Bin. Another had been moved three times. I just love/ dull lengthy tasks, oh yah. However, it is done. Rho00248
Friday, December 26, 2008
Downturn letter shapes
Here is a helpful article By Martin Hutchinson Contributing Editor Money Morning/Money Map Report Rho00247
Tao Lin Eats
might be a good name for a chain of restaurants, if Tao Lin wished to establish such; but the real questions are: What? / Where? / Why? / When? / How? and While? Rho00246
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
In the latest from JHK
this: "What seems to spook people now is the possibility that everybody in charge of everything is a fraud or a crook." James Howard Kunstler's post for this week is entitled: Legitimacy Dwindles. Rho00245
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Using money rationally
Last night I said in a comment: - Down with debt addiction. Live simply. Save money. . . . In an email received today, Keith Fitz-Gerald wrote: - "In the next ten years, we will see a return of . . . · Savings and frugality · Personal responsibility: paying bills on time, not living beyond one's means · Risk management as central to investing · Stock market investing as a way to get ahead, not 'place bets' on 'lucky stocks'" Rho00244
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Aristophanes, Juvenal, Boccaccio
Aristophanes Juvenal Boccaccio Question: - How are authors such as these relevant today? - Rho00243
Friday, December 19, 2008
Fitz-Gerald on Buying Stocks
By Keith Fitz-Gerald Investment Director Money Morning/The Money Map Report Friday December 19th, 2008 Stocks May Not be Cheap Enough, Yet -- And Here's Why Rho00242
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Gilani on Debt Rating Agencies
[ . . . . ] [ extra-note: Read today that Obama is prepared to go all the way back to the Civil War to correct financial errors made during various administrations. ] Rho00241
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
This article on sensible investing
By Martin Hutchinson Contributing Editor Money Morning is dated Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 and is entitled How to Avoid Madoff Mayhem. Rho00239
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Chicago Board Options Exchange
cboe - 2008-12-14 See this Wikipedia entry and check reference link. If you search the title of this entry, other explanatory sites will come up. As fascinating as all this is, it is really only useful for wealthy traders, people who have at least $25,000 and are able to purchase 100 to 1000 shares using options contracts. Even then the limit of what can be lost is more than the limit of what can be gained, so it was in one example anyway; but the Chicago Board Options Exchange does provide courses for beginners. Rho00238
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Ever
is a novella written by Blake Butler with help from God in the form of an Atlanta tornado and Blake's consequent decision to return to the room he grew up in, and with help from the caring and creative Derek White, editor of Calamari Press. For my knowledge of this I am indebted to Johannes Göransson, who posted about it on his Exoskeleton blog, and Rauan Klassnik, who conducted an Ever e-mail interview of Blake Butler which he posted on his blog. Ron Silliman asked in one of his posts: What comes next? From what I have been learning recently from blog posts about works by younger authors, I think that "what comes next" is already here. What is most noticeable to me is twofold: 1) The willingness to draw from all available aesthetics. 2) The strength to allow intuition to prevail. I favor a sense of play over a sense of control, or at least space for play within a controlled universe. No One Does That is the best first place to scroll through and click around in. Both a writer of fiction and poems, Mr. Butler can be found in many locations. The Collected Poems: 1951-1971 by A. R. Ammons was or is on his wish list at Amazon. Speaking of lists, list #2 of a projected 50 lists of 50 items each. * Rho00236
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Big Three opinion article
"The Big Three Need a Shakeout, Not a Bailout" by Keith Fitz-Gerald ----- Investment Director Money Morning/The Money Map Report 2008-12-09 makes sense to me, but in it is a "would not" which, as I read it, was meant to be a "would now"-- it will be obvious. Got any horses? Rho00235
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Matthew Zapruder
My current interest in this poet began with a poem by him in a post by J J Gallaher. Gleaned from what Zapruder says about himself is, among other facts, that he sees himself as/ a peripatetic collagist. interview information with embedded interview information Rho00234
Friday, December 5, 2008
Eliot Weinberger and Forrest Gander
in conversation 2005 Fall BOMB issue 93 Eliot Weinberger Eliot Weinberger - Forrest Gander Forrest Gander This post is because of Forrest Gander's latter posts at Poetry Foundation's Harriet, particularly because of his final post. * Rho00233
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
some worthy attributes
[ Note: For most humans the following are not easily attained. ] 1. empathetic love 2. prudent hope 3. openness to believing in unknowns 4. choosing well 5. healthful persistence Rho00231
