Author Archives: Susan

CURRENT AFFAIRS: Bailout(s)

Posted on September 30, 2008 by Susan

Rather interesting, in light of our recent decision not to help the "damn bankers and rich corporations": Failing Farmers Learn to Profit from Farm Aid Aid is a Bumper Crop for Farmers Continue reading →

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CURRENT AFFAIRS: Guilt by Association

Posted on September 28, 2008 by Susan

I do take the American citizen’s right to vote in our elections seriously and while I may have joked about strategy in having my current party affiliation, it gave me the opportunity to vote in the primaries and I felt … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: e-lit

Posted on September 25, 2008 by Susan

So this post on the death of electronic literature from Nick Montfort on Grand Text Auto has stuck in my mind for a couple of days and while I may not be clear exactly what e-literature encompasses, I know that … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Too funny…

Posted on September 25, 2008 by Susan

This message just came in my email and I must say, it made my day: lateEngr. Jürgen Krügger made youa beneficiary to his WILL.You are advised to contact me with my personal emailaddress: Of course, I jumped up and down … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: It takes all kinds…

Posted on September 24, 2008 by Susan

PETA petitioning Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream corporation to use breast milk–yes, human mother’s milk–in their ice cream instead of cow’s milk. Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Renewable resources

Posted on September 22, 2008 by Susan

There’s something about growing and using your own things that makes my heart beat a little faster. With the last of the grapes bubbling into wine, jalapenos, habaneros and thai peppers hung to dry, another batch of basil ready for … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: 100 Days – Available in Book Format

Posted on September 18, 2008 by Susan

Proud to announce the availability of 100 Days: Bookmark It Email It Book Preview 100 Drawings, 100 Poems By Carianne Mack and Steve Ersinghaus   sersinghaus What’s inside 100 Days: the vivid relationship of color and sound, image and metaphor, the … Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: 100 Images – Showtime

Posted on September 16, 2008 by Susan

I’ve directed you before to the summer project of Steve Ersinghaus and Carianne Mack over at Media Play; it is a poem and a painting produced each day for 100 days and both images, visual and textual took on a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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CURRENT AFFAIRS: Balance and Reason

Posted on September 16, 2008 by Susan

Not for me to point you to yet another political commentary, but for me, I like Megan McArdle’s take on things, agree in a lot of cases, but just find her to be a no-b.s. intelligent voice on many of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Deja Vu Again

Posted on September 16, 2008 by Susan

Well here it is, just 4 days short of a year and I come face to face with my little friend over at Adam’s Supermarket and just can’t keep my mouth shut. Now I’ve let a lot go by when … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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CURRENT AFFAIRS: At Long Last…

Posted on September 14, 2008 by Susan

…the Church of England settles down about Darwin’s theory of evolution. Continue reading →

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WRITING: Of Natural Causes

Posted on September 13, 2008 by Susan

Beneath the bending leavesof peonies and righteous branchesof the evergreenthe coon sleeps Where once I found a fishwho had fallen from the skyas if his faith in wingshad failed Golden tail with ringslike prison stripes, a masklike Clayton Moore, he … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Back in Neutral

Posted on September 12, 2008 by Susan

Too many things in the way of a mood; a barn that needs painting, a job app at Wal-Mart, grapes that need picking and turning to wine.  And while they still come, the customers wanting their framing. So the writing … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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CURRENT AFFAIRS: In the Arts!

Posted on September 9, 2008 by Susan

It looks like we’re all invited to the showing of the Ersinghaus/Mack poetry/art collaboration that we’ve been following this summer, that is, the 100 Images creation: The daily matching of poem to watercolor can be seen either here or here.

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CURRENT AFFAIRS: The Two-Party System of Thinking

Posted on September 9, 2008 by Susan

About as much as I believe that there are only a dozen types of people astrologically, I have faith that conservatives are strict Republicans and liberals are strict Democrats and that aside from a few Libertarians, Centrists, Greenies or other … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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