Monday, October 2, 2017



Mary Ruefle



  1. "Why the fuck I buy eBooks..." I thought you worked in a library?!? ;-)

    Thanks for the links. Glad you (and possibly EG are enjoying it). Thing is, all things remaining the same, it'll still be up in a couple years for reference.

  2. Thanks for the link to Davidly's piece the other day. That is one of the best things I've read recently.

    I've got my own advice for not only the Democratic Party (the party that dragged us into WWII, dropped to atomic bombs on Japan, dragged us into a war in Vietnam, Korea, cheered W. Bush as he invaded Iraq, then destroyed the Ukraine, Libya, Syria just to name a few, gave us NAFTA that helped destroy our economy beyond repair, tried to foist Hillary Clinton on us, passed racist legislation to incarcerate black people in large numbers and in general has been fucking us over for the last half century) but the Republican Party as well as I'm a generous soul. My advice for both is to go away and never come back. I hope this detailed enough. I've given it much thought. All in all I feel this very sane analysis.

  3. Even with climate change, this point in the calendar is still a cusp-time. Out here on the Left Coast, there's a coolness in the shadows now that seems to underlie everything, like the water in mountain streams: at the bottom, cold. But not quite Autumn, and not yet Winter, and still some warmth to go before it turns.

  4. our backyard, a part which is actually a meadow of sorts, a half acre with tall grasses and weeds and the occasional wild flower because we do not mow it but leave it scrubby and unkempt

    except for the size, this is a description of my own backyard, which i regard as an informal nature preserve (though i interfere with stuff that gets too close to the heat pump)

    here's something someone i've met wrote 3 years ago, but which i just read this afternoon:

    On Sunday at the alumni brunch for my Masters program (Community Planning), M----- [6 year old son] was building train tracks. He designated part of the room as "wilderness" and insisted the tracks go around and not through the wilderness "because that belongs to Mother Nature."