Little FuryIf you understand English, you're likely to be a little disappointed by this blog. Ciao Italia!mash-down- June 30, 2008 Here&8217;s a short list of things I really enjoy: T.S. Eliot&8217;s &8220;The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock&8221; American people faking British accents Portishead&8217;s &8220;Sour Times&8221; So why should this be so annoying Maybe it&8217;s because it&8217;s eight-and-a-half minutes of the loop from &8220;Sour Times.&8221; Eight-and-a-half minutes! Look, I applaud almost any mashup that incorporates good poems. But, in a ...http://rosswhite.com/2008/06/30/mash-down/ Such restraint- June 30, 2008 I am now at home, hanging out on the couch while I run one last load of laundry. I was planning to read some this weekend, but I find when I get buried in a book that I don&8217;t really want to put it down for housework, so instead, I have started John Adams. I ...http://rosswhite.com/2008/06/29/such-restraint/ 2008, suckas- June 28, 2008 I find it charming when rappers feel compelled to say what year it is in their songs. I don&8217;t know if this is happening as much any more. But when you&8217;re listening to BDP or De La Soul, and they get all haughty about how fresh they are in 1988, it&8217;s kind of funny. And ...http://rosswhite.com/2008/06/28/2008-suckas/ The world, it is a sponge- June 27, 2008 I am a crazy-deliberate Scrabulous player, which does not show in the words I play, since I so often lay down &8220;WO&8221; or &8220;ET.&8221; But I have been playing uber-slow games with people for the past couple months, and in the last two weeks, I have started playing a little more&8230; I&8217;m about back at ...http://rosswhite.com/2008/06/27/the-world-it-is-a-sponge/ My superior reading skills.- June 26, 2008 Took a &8220;writing&8221; day yesterday to work on developing my graduating class, but ended up using it to complete my preparation for thesis interviews. I now have two manuscripts entirely marked up, one in more detail than just about anything I have ever marked up, and one at a comfortable level. (The comfortable one is ...http://rosswhite.com/2008/06/26/my-superior-reading-skills/ Thank heavens for friends- June 24, 2008 Long talks this afternoon with two distant friends. A short talk this afternoon with the wife, who will not, as it turns out, be going to the Turkish mudbaths. Friends rule. But let&8217;s be honest, if it weren&8217;t for them, I would have been writing in my blog for the last half hour. Boo, friends! I&8217;m off ...http://rosswhite.com/2008/06/24/thank-heavens-for-friends/ Guess Whos Back, Back Again- June 20, 2008 Wow. Little Fury lay fallow for over a month, the longest such dry spell since I started blogging in 2002. Thanks to each of you who sent puzzled notes asking when it would be regularly updated again&8230; you can now resume wasting valuable work time here, instead of surfing for Internet pr0n. I just finished up ...http://rosswhite.com/2008/06/20/guess-whos-back-back-again/ |