Things that have happened

A few things that have happened
since January 2004

1. New pope! And I can think of at least one Jesuit who had a conniption.

2. The Archbishop of Boston was elevated to the College of Cardinals.

3. One of Boston's best priests -- an Oblate of the Virgin Mary -- was relocated to Denver.

4. My friend Heather had a baby girl!

5. I've stopped attempting to write poetry. I haven't had the urge to perpetrate verse for three years.

6. I moved to scenic Chelsea, Massachusetts. (That "scenic" is a bit of a joke.)

TV ad

my current favorite TV commercial

swimming
soccer
ballet
oboe

and last but not least ...

KARATE!

Haloscan

Haloscan

ate the old comments again!

New York School

Partying on Parnassus

Here is a 1998 review by John Simon of a book about the New York School of poets: John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, and James Schuyler. I've read these poets sometimes with enjoyment, sometimes with frustration, and sometimes with disgust. Simon's assessment is not laudatory.

Leaning to the right

No, it's not a political statement. Several months ago, I tried making a relatively minor change to the template, and the result was that all my blog's posts became right-margin justified, except the top one on each page, which mysteriously appears in larger type than the rest. I don't know how to get things back to normal; have forgotten virtually all the html I used to know. Oh well. I'm getting used to it.

NPR

Was listening to National Public Radio sometime last month -- something I don't often do -- and they were discussing the proposed South Dakota abortion law. They said it would ban all abortions except those that would "save the life of the pregnant woman."

They couldn't bring themselves to say "life of the mother."