Georgia is a swing state, you stupid fuck! I wonder if the shift in polls will get your attention. I guess the whole bloody mess really is in God’s hands. Posted on August 2, 2024Categories Politics … And That’s Why I Hang My Hat in Omaha Last Wednesday, I got a text from ...
Posted on June 5, 2006 by Matthew I’ve been reading several books at the same time for summer (see the lower left sidebar) and Umberto Eco’s The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana intrigues me the most. The premise of the latest from the Italian professor semiotics can swing either way...
It’s like what happens in the novel Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by exiled Chinese novelist Sijie Dai and many historical fiction based on personal experiences during the full swing of Cultural Revolution. That said, you can imagine the emotions and panic so overwhelming that swayed...
I spent almost all day reading in sunny Palo Alto (where Stanford is). It’s a lazy day for blogging but I make headwaythrough Sense and SensibilityandMiddlemarch. Book talk and review will return on Monday. I have snagged a very interesting meme on food from a Chinese-language blog. The...
Posted on June 17, 2008 by Matthew “…and I wished I were like them, that I had a friend like Franz I could swing my axe with and make plans and use my strength with and laugh and cut logs with by a river like this one, which was always the same and yet was new, as now,...