november open theme month: bff theme

*March 2009 Theme* MY BFF! So, refresh our memories, who were you stamped as in your basic application?: Francis Whitman. Would you mind getting that stamp as your BFF?: Nope, definitely not! What sort of relationship do you think you would have with your new Owen!BFF?: Well, I would hope that we would have a good relationship haha! I need someone who is really fun, first ...

Chatting with Max

...hope I can pull it off. Before the amlit lecture I made a few notes for the essay. In lecture, prof. Warren covered a lot of stuff about Emily Dickinson and made quite a few comparisons to Whitman--I was thinking of taking up similar though not identical things in my essay...so hopefully it's alright. It half looks like I'm stealing his points now. Good lecture though, aswesome lecture. Next week ...

Кабинеты. Мебель и комнаты.Часть 2.

Старинные кабинеты, секретеры, бюро. 15-19 век. Кабинетом мы обычно называем комнату, и редко- мебель. Но этим словом первоначально называли именно шкаф для редкостей и ценных предметов, и на западе оно используется в двух значениях. Также там словом "desk" называют и письменный стол, и шкаф с полками и откидной крышкой для письма, который мы склонны называть скорее секретером. Сначала ...

Uncle Walt's Thanksgiving Thought

...would pray that President Obama listens to those tapes, heeds the inescapable parallels & then reads Walt Whitman's poem written ca. 1870 after he had mentally digested the history of the Civil War ...President do not elide these facts. Learn from them. Dirge for Two Veterans by Walt Whitman The last sunbeam Lightly falls from the finish’d Sabbath, On the pavement here—and ...

California Public Pensions

... holdings? And then, with the capitol razed capital raised, maybe, um, "reinvest in the community?" I'm just asking, because Governor Mitch Daniels has been seen as such a success in Indiana, and liquidating some corporate holdings sounds less controversial than privatizing roads and prisons. What would Meg Whitman say? *The internet is for mental masturbation about conspiracies, after all.

Pioneers! O Pioneers!

... races halted? Do they droop and end their lesson, wearied, over there beyond the seas? We take up the task eternal, and the burden, and the lesson, Pioneers! O pioneers! All the past we leave behind; We debouch upon a newer, mightier world, varied world; Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labour and the march, Pioneers! O pioneers! Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass Pioneers! O Pioneers!

079. Somehow with you, it's so wondrous, you know?Each star is a mystery and so full of possibility.

Levis commercials feature Walt Whitman poems - including his voice?

Should Walt Whitman be used to hawk jeans? Well, maybe not, but at least these commercials are beautifully filmed...Wordstock.] This commerical features what is believed to be his voice. Did Walt Whitman record a wax cylinder of him reading one of his poems? The ... a recording of a radio show that featured what the host said was Whitman reading one of his poems. There’s no clue to negate the idea...

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman.

I think I could turn and live with animals, they're so placid and self contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to...

WIth apologies to Walt Whitman

...and in solidarity with the students of Danvers High school ... I sound my barbaric MEEP over the rooftops of the world. Care to join me?