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Lady in the Water (no spoilers, I promise)
perhaps it's unwise to criticize a film in which a film critic gets eaten by a wolf. But here goes: Shyamalan's characters were great-- and they were just that, characters. Hilarious one-sided stereotypes. His plot w… -
news of the weird
Garfield has a plotline It's not a good plotline, but it's a plotline. And it involves Jon getting a date... and a woman falling for him. I'm a faithful reader of Garfield and have never figured out why... because I l… -
Bubba shot the jukebox last night; said it played a sad song that made him cry
Ten minutes into my first-grade class today, I'm reading Danny and the Dinosaur with the kids (a dumb, dumb book but they love it), they're having a blast; a mother and her son walk in. So I do what I always do when a c… -
Name-day
Today's my name-day. My patron saint, Yakov Netsvetov aka St. Jacob of Alaska was born in 1802 on Atka Island, which today is the westernmost and most isolated community in the United States. He was ordained a priest i… -
my eternal home
Home is wherever you're going to sleep tonight. . . . I don't mean this flippantly or cynically. Rather: when I pine for a former home, or long for a future home, I tend to ignore or dismiss the place I'm in right now… -
How to look for an apartment in Gainesville, Florida
(see Cara's rather more frustrating experience) 1) don't think about it until about two weeks before your lease is up, and you happen to be spending the summer four hours away from Gainesville. 2) Come up with criteria… -
longer than the song of a whippoorwill
tonight will be my first night to sleep in the shotgun. It has no internet or television, and I hope to keep things that way. I will continue to be a faithful writer of paper letters. If you want my new mailing addres… -
prejudice
I occasionally rant about regional and dialectical prejudice; especially the perception that speakers of Southern dialect are intellectually inferior to speakers of Midwestern dialect-- as though your native language had… -
ashes to ashes
Literary critic Harold Bloom has argued that contemporary America is post-Christian yet thoroughly religious. American religion, he claims, is a form of gnosticism in which individual souls seek divine inspiration i… -
Hoot
"Ever since I was little," Mullet Fingers said, "I've been watchin' [Florida] disappear-- the piney woods, the scrub, the creeks, the glades. Even the beaches, man-- they put up all these giant hotels and only goober to… -
potty-trained alligators
A whole bunch of my middle-schoolers and high-schoolers are reading this novel Hoot by Carl Hiassen, so I finally bought me a copy. It's a kids' book, sure, but it's great. Take a look. Dear Dana, I'm sorry I bu… -
with falling rain
Update: the shotgun's owner called me just before I was ready to leave Gainesville; so I drove over and signed the lease. It's mine! Move-in on Monday. Email me at buddhagazelle at yahoo dot com and I'll give you my n… -
moving
Shall we never be alone? Shall we never live alone, think alone, live in a house by ourselves alone? Ah! but I shall! I shall! Alone, alone, and far away, with falling rain. -- Thomas Wolfe I went apartment-huntin… -
I listened close and I heard the ghost of Osceola cry
Ever since the days of old, men would search for wealth untold. They'd dig for silver and for gold, and leave the empty holes. And way down south in the Everglades, where the black water rolls and the sawgrass sways, the… -
The Swing
How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do! Up in the air and over the wall Till I can see so wide, Rivers and trees and cattl… -
giveth, and taketh away
but it still hurts to lose. ... So let me tell you about my high schoolers instead. They all manifestly declare that they don't want to be in class, most vociferously one girl A. She does not, she assures me, like to… -
"It's helped my whole life"
Learning English means a better job for California's newest immigrants by R.W. Dellinger *this is where I worked! I used to help teach these classes!* Outside the tan stucco building with thick iron bars on the eight … -
Geopolitical sports
When we were fifteen at boarding school, one night when the class activity was to play soccer A and I decided to protest. We sat crosslegged in the middle of the soccer field, making a peace sign and chanting, "down wit… -
who we are, and who we are not
I celebrated Independence Day by taking the back roads down Florida's spine, listening first to NPR reading the Declaration of Independence, then to country radio, then to the space shuttle launch, then to Spanish-langua… -
многая лето
Many years to Anastasia! "Nothing of importance happened today." -- King George III of Britain; July 4, 1776 -
I am Dan Brown
I'm cleaning house, and discovered an old notebook from high school, filled with angsty poems, corny short stories, and a few attempts at novels. This is the beginning of the first chapter of one that I wrote-- it was m…
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