Musings from Brian J. Noggle
Saturday, November 08, 2008
 
Perspective on Election: Achieved!
In a brief programming note, posting will be light as I am tending to grim family matters. Prayers and small animal sacrifices will be accepted in the spirit in which they're received.


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Wednesday, November 05, 2008
 
Aside (I)
Every generation must live through its own 1970s. After a decade of an unpopular war, opposed by reflex and not because you might be drafted to fight it, so now we'll have this generation's Carter.

Hopefully, it will only be that bad.


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Monday, November 03, 2008
 
Book Report: Crossword Poems Volume One selected and introduction by Robert Norton (2000)
When I bought this book, I bought it on title alone, so I expected some sort of collection of crosstic poems or something, maybe poems based on crossword puzzles. As a matter of fact, it's a collection of poems whose lines appear in crossword puzzles a lot. The introduction indicates that the editor thought there was a time where schoolboys new the poems enough by heart to get the poems from quoted lines in the clues, but alas, those days are passing, so here's a collection with the pertinent quotes highlighted in red.

Regardless of the motivation behind it, this is a nice little anthology that reprints a number of often-anthologized poems from English literature, including works from Herrick, Keats, the Brownings, Drayton, et al. Who couldn't use an excuse to reread some of them? Also, at 64 pages, it's compact and not very daunting to start or to carry around.

I guess since this is entitled Volume One, the series includes more. They might be worth a pick-up, but I wonder how they could top this small selection.

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Sunday, November 02, 2008
 
The Bocephus Endorsement
Hank Williams, Jr., will appear with Governor Palin in Jefferson City, Missouri.

Because, face it, the national Democratic Party doesn't have room for his sort of people. It has massed other, more powerful tribes, it thinks.


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To say Noggle, one first must be able to say the "Nah."