Archive for June, 2009

Apropos of Nothing 9: Don’t Hate Me Because I’m Beautiful

Saturday, June 20th, 2009

Photo 2009 by me.  Thanks to Hannah for being a good sport.

The Scratch Papers, Page 74: “Memento Mori”

Saturday, June 20th, 2009

2009.

“I Am an Amanuensis” 61: Mark Slouka

Saturday, June 20th, 2009

“[. . . T]he inevitability of [. . . my own death] has always struck me as distinctly unfair, and somewhat unlikely [. . .].”

Mark Slouka in his essay “Eclogue: On the rich sin of meddling.”  July 2009 Harpers, pages 45-48.  This quote page 48.

Amanuensis –noun.  A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.

Apropos of Nothing 8: Pick a Winner!

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009