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Poems for ENAM170

How much suffering will learning’s name impose, Until at last these learnéd things fall short And fail to pacify the hell, Of life in educated misery…. An enigma; yet just as bound by laws of flesh and bone; We only fool ourselves with fantasies Of evading the world’s corporeality.

Posted 30 April 2008 † Yuletide § Poetry § Writing ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Journal of a Voyage out to New Zealand, 1840.

Epuni and the natives took Awhanga before Mr. Murphy, who awarded the pig to the natives, who had brought it from “Waiderop.”… John’s College on July 3rd, 1846: “I hope Mita Uru (Mr. Yule) will look out for a comfortable vessel for you to come up in, at any rate more comfortable than the Swan for she was wretchedly uncomfortable, and I hope that he will not trade along the Coast with you on board and make a floating pig-sty of her, for if he does that will be another source of discomfort as it was with us. [From Chapter X.

Posted 27 April 2008 † Yuletide § Aside ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Inner Peace Through Metal [Revisited]

I quickly realized I had struck gold; “Tonight Tonight” was just a warmup, quite an epic one at that, but still—very much still a warmup for the main event: the buzz-sawing Zero; the crushingly distorted Bodies; Bullet With Butterfly Wings, with its hilarious chorus, “Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage”.

…>While it is not clear to me if the motivating power of death metal is generating a vanguard of energetic youth or drawing artistic and creative young people into a trap of naive individualism, I believe that the political significance of musical sound is rooted in the meanings that the participants constitute and the consequences of those meanings for the participants’ lives and the larger society.

Posted 25 April 2008 † Yuletide § Braided § Creative Nonfiction ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , ,

“God help us…”

Most people don’t believe in ADHD.1 Then they meet me.2

“Elinor saw nothing to censure in him but a propensity of saying too much what he thought on every occasion, without attention to persons or circumstances. In hastily forming and giving his opinion of other people, in sacrificing general politeness to the enjoyment of [...]

Posted 21 April 2008 † Yuletide § Creative Nonfiction § Fiction ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Softwares!

Posted 16 April 2008 † Yuletide § Aside § Meta § Softwares ‡ Comments (0) °

REVIEW: “Vale” by Orden Ogan

Posted 13 April 2008 † Yuletide § Reviews ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

To Add

Posted 13 April 2008 † Yuletide § Creative Nonfiction § Work in Progress ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

AD H D

Posted 11 April 2008 † Yuletide § Creative Nonfiction ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

IDENTITY CRISIS! Welcome to blog.writeNOTHING.com……

As part of my gradual shift from the cute, but useless/pointless domains I registered at first, to something more sensible (hehe), I have now officially moved this blog from writing.yulebomb.net to blog.writenothing.com — the http://writenothing.com identity is now pretty much self-contained (at least the two main pages it links to are now on the same domain). Yay.

Posted 10 April 2008 † Yuletide § Aside § Meta ‡ Comments (0) °

Sketch

Posted 04 April 2008 † Yuletide § Shorts ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: ,