From NPR (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95256794): “Switching from task to task, you think you’re actually paying attention to everything around you at the same time. But you’re actually not,” [neuroscientist Earl] Miller said.
Month: October 2008
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Did I mention I’ll be reading poetry @ Malaprops this Sunday, Oct. 19 @ 3 PM? I’ll be reading my work along with other local poets.
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Which would you chose? A book of poetry by Randall Jarrell? The Savage Sword of Conan, Vol. 1? Or a book titled, Pagan Christianity?
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Automating one’s social networking status is easy. Automating one’s cash flow is more challenging.
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Three cups of Velvet Hammer. Three hours of fist pumping metal music. A vendor who can’t follow the !@#$ instructions. I lurve Mondays.
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OK, I’m really getting tired of the office doorbell.
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Enjoying Clawhammer (Oktoberfest Lager by Highland Brewing Company) as celebration for finishing design work on the weekend.
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Finished reading a Randall Jarrell book.
thirsty?
// Thinking about marketing… wondering about Wall Street… considering poetry… for some reason this all makes me very thirsty.
Downtown Asheville, Early Autumn
Coffee and poetry
This morning I was working at The Dripolator.
why am i taking this class?
Last night the teacher told me I should check out the writings of Randall Jarrell based on a poem draft I read for class. Other comments included the words “authoritative” and “tender.”
Another classmate came up to me and asked if I had studied poetry. That make a total of three classmates who have asked how it is I know so much about poetry and poetic techniques. The answer is simple: No, I didn’t go to school and study poetry. I just read books.
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What’s up with the office doorbell? It’s worse than my office phone ringing off the hook.
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Listening to a lecture on classical mythology.
Poets Teaching Poets, part 3
Last night, I submitted one of my poems for workshop. For those readers unfamiliar with what happens to a poem/poet during a “workshop” session, imagine a colonoscopy performed by pre-med students.
I could play the pained poet and claim that I am still recovering from the ordeal, but that’s not true because I’m still giggling.
Poets Teaching Poets, part 3
Last night, I submitted one of my poems for workshop. For those readers unfamiliar with what happens to a poem/poet during a “workshop” session, imagine a colonoscopy performed by pre-med students.
I could play the pained poet and claim that I am still recovering from the ordeal, but that’s not true because I’m still giggling.
Poetry, the highest form of art
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Someone just brought me homemade chocolate cookies. Thank you!
Poetry, the highest form of art
“Imagine living in a society where poetry was considered to be the most important art form. Where a poet could easily fill a football stadium. Where a poet’s death was the top news story for days.” Link
This echoes the thought that Icelandic books is the most important in Europe.
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Stopped by Asheville Brewing Co. on the way home after class. ABC was packed for the Presidential debate.
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Bus broke down. Only got home 5 minutes late. How’s that for efficient public transit?
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Is trying to catch the 4 o’clock bus.
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someone’s cellphone is ringing in the other office… answer it, please.
You’re kidding, right? Magazine ad sales increase?
Ad pages in the monthly magazines’ January through September issues had fallen 7.4% from 2007, according to Media Industry Newsletter. The first nine months of 2007, by comparison, slipped only 1% from 2006. Before that, we’d seen a few years of gains.
Okay, so maybe it is not all bad.
The Economist… presented a crisp example of excellence in editorial, ad sales, circulation and marketing. Women’s Health continued its ascent…. Every Day With Rachael Ray even reversed the newsstand decline of first-half 2007.
Coffeehouse Junkie 