I’m still mining Sundays from 10 years ago. I thought you might be interested to know that the big Web-page makeover that I’ve talked about recently (and have talked about off and on in the past) might really happen this time. If it doesn’t, I just wasted money on a retainer I paid to some fine young people who’re going to help me put it all together technically. Of course, I learned I’m still going to have to provide the content. Sheesh! It isn’t scheduled to roll out until spring, possibly even late spring, and I have no idea what it will look like, because I’ve yet to come up with a concept and the artwork to support it—that “content” bugaboo I mentioned. However, I will keep you posted as events warrant.
Literary Achievement
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442 responses to “Literary Achievement”
OF due 1607-1627 CST. Peace, emb
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
Jean dear, Ghost Rider 6. Do you copy? Over.
I’ve been mia and I’ve been to Montgomery where we saw an excellent musical about Patsy Cline. Tonight we are going to see The Millionaire Quartet. Although it seems like building is going fast on our house there is still lots to do including carpet, final electrical, some outside painting, screening the back porch, finishing the garage and shop floors, shower doors and it goes on and on. Now it looks like the house is going to be in the Parade of Homes in June so it could be June before we move although we plan to close in March. It was interesting to hear that the Super Bowl yesterday got its sod from the same place the sod at my last house came from in Foley, Al.
Now Jerry, sod would not have been one of the things I would think of in Foley, AL’s reasons for fame.
Glad you are back, of course. Will you be offering a B and B experience in the new Parade of Home’s swakiendo?
I already have three trips your way planned this year.
Lower Alabama is covered with sod farms. I pass through a number of them every time I go that way.
Hoping some of us are simply incommunicado from bad weather, ice and snow.
Sand, you think SIRI doesn’t like you? I would shudder to think what she’d make of my pronunciation? I speak French like Miss Piggy and English sometimes like I am from Yaknapowha County, MS. Which neither of us, Siri or I can spell.
Siri has trouble getting a few words correct, no matter how carefully I pronounce them. Which sometimes causes me to swear. Which causes Siri to go into Nanny Mode: “There’s no need for that.” Which sometimes make me swear even more, thereby sending her into Mother Mode…not angry but just very disappointed: “Well…I’m still here for you.”
OF due 1737-1757 CST. emb
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
sand: “The Warsaw Pact stare.” Lovely.
Jackie: I couldn’t spell it either, so went to MetaCrawler. Yoknapatawpha County has a Wiki site, with a map of sorts:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoknapatawpha_County
Peace, emb
Jackie, you attended a Southern college and can’t spell “Yoknapatawpha”? For shame. In the advanced English classes they stuck me in, we had to write critical analysis of Faulkner. Do you know how hard it is to write something about Faulkner that hasn’t already been written? Hundreds of times?
I’ll bet Lady Mindy can sympathize with me on that. 🙂
GR6: I’ve stayed away from Art History and Advanced English Literature classes for one reason–I like good art and good literature enough already. I don’t need someone to teach me critical analysis of what I already like, to see things that even the artist or writer didn’t know about their work when they were creating it. I prefer to make my own judgments and to notice more on my own when I revisit their works.
A recent example: I had the good fortune to see a screening of DeMille’s “This Day and Age (1933)” last Friday night (BYU’s archive has DeMille’s personal papers and films from his collection). I was struck with the use of familiar folk tunes in the score, how they contrasted and underscored the action on the screen. The cinematography included some form cuts that took my breath away.
Although the film barely made any money (Hollywood’s accounting practices being what they were and are) it stands as a testament to DeMille’s artistry and his understanding of the issues of that particular “day and age” and the importance of never letting people with “pull” get away with crimes that we lesser mortals dare not commit.
This may interest some of you:
http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/02/02/climate-change-primer
Peace, emb
Ghost, neither the college of agriculture at one university nor the college of liberal arts where I went for other in pre-law considered English literature to be of great need to any of us, I fear.
While I did take some literature classes I cannot for the life of me remember how advanced I got.
However, I still have Mississippi relatives who I believe stopped off around Philadelphia? The McCarty family of potters in Merigold are “kin” and I think another bunch helped found Piggly Wiggly. It is where we picked up our Choctaw “princess” ancestress, although I believe we had a precedent in Edgefield, SC area, a native American ancestress who the genealogists are still debating was/was not native, based on fact she was allowed to inherit property from late spouse.
By the time I was in sixth grade I had read anything Faulkner had written to that point and I just kept reading, since neither my mother nor grandmother was enough of a reader to have any idea how inappropriate my reading choices were. Can I discuss them critically? No, but I did love the reading!
When you live Faulkner’s books and your ancestors did too and you realize it early in life, it just becomes fiction, albeit good fiction.
Always a fan of Mississippi. Love, Jackie
This also:
http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/02/02/climate-change-compare-minnesota?elq=3bfa45faad2b4476aec1d2a3de9ac7a4&elqCampaignId=11305
Maybe there’s a correlation btw. this map and the prevalence of climate change skeptics in the Village. Of course, correlation is not causation. I won’t speculate on what other correlations there might be.
Peace, emb
On subject of correlation and literature and education, I will only say I took thirteen years of Spanish courses, conversational, historical and literature. I had to read Cervantes, Simon Bolivar and Jorge Luis Borges and critique them in Spanish, not English. No English spoken in many classes.
However, only a few years later I could not request an iron from housekeeping for my slacks nor carry on any conversation, nor read anything written above newspaper “news” level. I once thought a Mexico rose grower was asking if I were tired and agreed to go on a helicopter ride out to one of his ranches to inspect his crops and spend the weekend apparently. (Did not go after a translator told me what I’d done)
So much for higher learning! Housekeeping sent all my clothes out to dry cleaners/laundry and they were impeccably ironed and rehung in my closet for me.
Failure of communication and comprehension due to my education?
Love, Jackie
Don’t blame me, Trucker. I had to take English and, as I said, I got stuck in those classes, with no option not to be there. 🙂
Didn’t mind, though. It made us think. Also, read better books, had a better professor, and rubbed elbows with some pretty bright kids. Some of it may have even rubbed off on me.
Being very old South, it will probably turn out Ghost and I are cousins somehow which wouldn’t matter anyway since my mother married her cousin, my stepdad, and my ancestors seemed to have a propensity for similar to the point we should all have an eye in the middle of our forehead and extra digits or less?
Had a rule not to date any relatives from an early, early age and got to point of genealogy research to find out I had anyway. Didn’t marry any, gene pool from far away countries and distant histories. Hard to practice in Faulkner’s country. Gene pools got pretty compacted.
On polls of beliefs, are we mostly disbelievers concerning global climate change?
Sand and Loon must have a big presentation today or Loon is still working on that computer program while wearing six forms of communication.
Love, Jackie
To answer Jackie. Loon is binge watching tv. sandcastler™ is Slouching Towards Bethlehem with Joan Didion.
Interesting choices.
I definitely believe in climate change. When my grandmother in Missouri was visited by cousins from South Carolina before WWI, they brought oranges they’d grown in their yard. Try to grow them there today…
Utah’s having the warmest, driest winter in decades. Folks on the East are having a real WINTER. Last year Utah had an unusually cold, dry winter.
Climate changes. I sincerely doubt we control that.
I got my wife hooked on The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLgJ7pk0X-s
Jackie, put me down for disbelief in man-made climate change and belief in naturally-occurring cycles of weather change.
Man-made climate change is the central heating/air-conditioning we install in our buildings and vehicles. If we were truly able to control the weather, we would not have killer heat spells, decade-long droughts or the current wave of “wintry blasts”.
Jackie, also one of us is listening to Domenico Scarlatti sonatas.
And I suspect I can identify the guilty party, Sand. I just read a most interesting blog from someone in Texas called “The King of Texas” and I double checked his history to see if it were you! Another friend who in his late 80’s was my internet site’s webmaster (ex-pilot and FAA official) sent me an essay that led me to his blog.
thekingoftexas.com/2010/04/14/ann-landers-the-station/
Which also led me to read his background, “It’s All About Me, Me, Me!” Sounds like someone I would really like to know. Lost his wife to cancer but that is only a small part of his story.
Love, Jackie