2019-02-18: Isaac Bashevis Singer: Of course I believe in free will. I have no choice.
2019-02-16: What I finished this week. 📚
2019-02-14: “My love, she laughs like the flowers Valentines can’t buy her.”
2019-02-10: What I finished this week. 📚
2019-02-09: That odd, almost dreamy clarity the first day after you get over a cold.
2019-02-08: Don’t follow leaders.
2019-02-07: It’s shaping up to be another snow-globe day.
2019-02-06: A mob of robins has been filling the nearby bare trees since last week’s cold snap. Robins? In …
2019-02-05: Out the window, it looks like a snow-globe replica of my neighborhood.
2019-02-04: swimming, swimming, the eye held by the sun, no sharks in the mind, nothing in the mind. —Russell …
2019-02-04: If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have …
2019-02-04: I exist, said the mirror. What about me? said Kleinzeit. Not my problem, said the mirror. —Russell …
2019-02-03: What I finished this week. 📚
2019-02-03: Waking up to muffled voices in heavy fog.
2019-02-02: Independence Day was the weirdest sequel ever. And no Bill Murray? No Andie McDowell?… A real missed …
2019-02-01: So… With the temps rapidly approaching the 40s, and most of us suffering the climatic equivalent of …
2019-01-31: The Moon and Venus are in conjunction right now, with Jupiter nearby. Take a look, if it’s dark and …
2019-01-30: I’m So Meta, Even This Acronym
2019-01-30: Sometimes I think we’re always fighting a Battle of New Orleans.
2019-01-29: I’ve been on a little pilgrimage the last few months, stumbling through various task manager …
2019-01-28: A few months ago, I wrangled with Things and OmniFocus. I loved both, but eventually committed to …
2019-01-27: Who put the “wild” in “bewilder”?
2019-01-27: What I finished this week. 📚
2019-01-27: I earned my custom domain pin yesterday, but I still haven’t bagged the 30-day-streak pin. That …
2019-01-25: I’m still half asleep as I move about the dark kitchen, and I keep tripping over the patch of …
2019-01-22: Let’s see if we can kill them with kindness before they kill us with guns.
2019-01-20: Is it nighttime where you are? Are the skies clear? Will this still be true in the next 2 or 3 …
2019-01-20: What I finished this week. 📚
2019-01-18: PSA: Total lunar eclipse this Sunday for most of the western hemisphere and portions of the eastern …
2019-01-07: For the first Micro Monday of the new year, I want to highlight @ryanboren who maintains an …
2019-01-06: In light of the appallingly large number of unread and under-read books of poetry currently …
2019-01-04: These books arrived for xmas this year. No poetry? No. I have 68 books of poetry on my TBR …
2019-01-03: I signed up for a Micro.blog account on 4 January 2018, a day after reading this post by …
2019-01-03: My First Year of Micro.blog I signed up for a Micro.blog account on 4 January 2018, a day after …
2019-01-02: Hello everyone! I had a good, recuperative break. I’ve even managed to recover a certain measure of …
2019-01-02: * don’t know why there’s no sun up in the sky like a river flows surely to the sea why do birds sing …
2019-01-02: Je est un autre.
2019-01-01: All New York was demanding new men, and all the new forces, condensed into corporations, were …
2018-12-21: Starting this afternoon, I’m stepping away completely from all online activities. I’ll be back …
2018-12-21: Task Manager Follow-up: things haven’t gone quite as planned.
2018-12-20: I met my wife twenty-five years ago today.
2018-12-18: It’s a cliché that at a certain age, you scan the obits, doing the math. 5 years older, 8 years …
2018-12-13: Consumed with work, and with waiting. There’s nothing more exhausting than waiting for the …
2018-12-13: The Correspondent hit its goal!
2018-12-11: List #12: Multiple Choice Something Shakespeare never said was: A) You’ve got to be kidding B) Why …
2018-12-11: * when I have nothing to say my lips are sealed you were my voice when I couldn’t speak well I talk …
2018-12-09: Looking out a high window at the Guthrie before seeing Noises Off yesterday afternoon.
2018-12-07: * cheer up sleepy Jean oh what can it mean the lovers the dreamers & me
2018-12-03: I have an idea. So… I started learning Swift today.
2018-11-28: Subtweet #2048: Weissmann’s Tarot If you’re wondering where he’s gone, look among the successful …
2018-11-28: Things and OmniFocus: some thoughts on choosing a task manager
2018-11-27: * You take the good, you take the bad, you take ’em both and there you have: all the little chicks …
2018-11-24: I learn by talking, and teach by listening. It’s amazing how many people think that’s backwards.
2018-11-24: In anticipation of an extremely busy 2019, I decided it was time to explore task manager apps. I …
2018-11-21: Character is Fate (This post has been removed)
2018-11-21: “Grow where you’re planted.” I overheard this advice recently, and I’ve been thinking about it ever …
2018-11-20: What a day. Time for some bourbon and my long, slow (5th or 6th) reread of Moby-Dick. Eagle Rare and …
2018-11-20: I just had coffee with an old friend. We met when we were 5. The first day of 1st grade. Best …
2018-11-19: “It was twenty years ago today…” The ISS was launched on 20 November 1998
2018-11-19: * We’re bobbing along in our barrel, we get the funniest looks from everyone we meet. Give us any …
2018-11-17: * and when the cow kicked it over she winked her eye and said I’m empty and aching and I don’t know …
2018-11-16: * Come and listen to my story about a man named Jed. He’s busy revvin’ up a powerful Mach–5. …
2018-11-13: * at night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet because my love for you would break my heart in two …
2018-11-08: “Media” is plural. I am Spartacus.
2018-11-06: I voted this morning. After the commuters, before lunch. In a drizzle and a sharp wind. My polling …
2018-11-05: Mahogany smells like cinnamon, and sounds like honey.
2018-11-04: * strumming my pain with his fingers with a portrait of Rasputin and a beard down to his knees: the …
2018-11-04: Writer’s block is an unwillingness to start crawling. –Eve L. Ewing
2018-11-04: Last week, visiting my parents.
2018-11-04: I need to stop buying books. Or I need to read faster.
2018-11-04: Another quiet week for me, but unlike my absence the other week, this time I’ve been following along …
2018-11-04: Friday was a good day to visit Egypt’s Sunken Cities at the Mia.
2018-10-27: Oldtimers may recall that in the spring I was tracking a sign as it made its sad way around the …
2018-10-25: Wellstone! Sixteen years ago today.
2018-10-20: Some Recent Anniversaries 18 October 1957: John Lennon and Paul McCartney perform together for the …
2018-10-20: This morning I saw my first shooting star in many years. I happened to be looking right where it …
2018-10-20: PSA: After studying the manual and conducting extensive online research, I have determined that if …
2018-10-20: Little Free Library creator Todd Bol dies (via MPR)
2018-10-19: For no particular reason, I’ve been completely absent from M.b since late last week. …
2018-10-10: Um, did someone say “nanowrimo”? I’m thinking of doing it again this year. Since my first — in 2001! …
2018-10-10: “I made the wrong mistakes.” —Thelonious Monk, 101 years old today.
2018-10-09: One need not hope in order to undertake, nor succeed in order to persevere. —Willem the Silent
2018-10-05: “…hearrrrts, cluuub, baaaand!”
2018-10-02: RIP the great Otis Rush. He was left-handed but, like Elizabeth Cotton, he played a flipped-over …
2018-09-30: A lovely remembrance of Marty Balin by Jorma Kaukonen.
2018-09-26: Let everything sing together inside you, lose nothing. — Bill Holm
2018-09-26: Through the open window, I heard some Canada geese honking, close overhead. I looked out into the …
2018-09-26: I’m back from a focused weekend away from the Internet and all social media (except for …
2018-09-25: Cento: “Dear Sir Or Madam,” He danced for those in minstrel shows and county fairs, saving up to buy …
2018-09-23: Sports Night debuted 20 years ago yesterday. Ladies and gentlemen, Thespis has left the building. On …
2018-09-21: Shabbat Shalom. Going dark for the the next few days, see y’all next week some time.
2018-09-20: You know you’re in the Upper Midwest when the cheese case alone is larger than the whole dairy …
2018-09-20: “Can one movie revitalize a community? The first Haida-language film could have lasting …
2018-09-16: Ballad-Mongers and Cranks “Who claims Truth, Truth abandons. History is hir’d, or coerc’d, only in Interests that must ever …
2018-09-15: Hanlon’s Razor: Never ascribe to malice what can adequately explained by stupidity. Grey’s Law: Any …
2018-09-15: * Back in the 90s I was in a very famous TV show and maybe I seem a bit confused, well maybe, but …
2018-09-14: I must lose the habit of thinking. One day, I shall find my pen, my voice. Will I know how to use …
2018-09-11: You know, now that we’re almost two decades into it, I’m starting to think this whole “twenty-first …
2018-09-08: I always feel good in museums. I like the high ceilings and the acoustics, the footsteps and the …
2018-09-07: The last two weeks have been pretty intense, and frankly kinda rough. Right now, most serious …
2018-09-06: * Making your way in the world today takes everything you’ve got. Well, no one told you life was …
2018-09-05: Now, I know there are people who do not love their fellow human beings, and I hate people like that! …
2018-09-04: * well my heart knows me better than I know myself hypnotized mesmerized by what my eyes have seen …
2018-09-02: I think being shy, an introvert, an HSP, and having social anxiety are four quite distinct (if …
2018-09-02: I agree that we should generally avoid using “you guys” — but I suggest that if someone insists on …
2018-09-02: On Morning Pages @garciabuxton asked about morning pages. Turns out I’m feeling chatty this morning, and …
2018-09-01: First Kiss: New Apple Variety Debuts at Minnesota State Fair
2018-09-01: How Mad Men Should Have Ended I still haven’t watched Mad Men all the way through, but my wife has, and her reaction to the …
2018-09-01: * Love, exciting and new. Come aboard, we’re expecting you Saturday. What a day: a yabba dabba doo …
2018-09-01: Poetry will always be anti-capitalist because it’s waste, and that’s what we love about it. –Eileen …
2018-08-31: A good end to a rough week: old friends over for a home-cooked meal, comfort food that’s easy to …
2018-08-31: * Is there gas in the car Yes there’s gas in the car we were driving Driving in your car Speed so …
2018-08-31: Some recent departures (links to NY Times): Paul Taylor Neil Simon Tom Clark
2018-08-30: PSA: There is an excellent and invaluable wiki of all things Micro.blog, maintained by our very own …
2018-08-30: I’m having a week where absolutely everything is pissing me off, especially the little stuff. …
2018-08-28: The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. – Diane di Prima
2018-08-27: I haven’t done a Micro Monday for a while, so this week I nominate @FrankRamblings, who claims to …
2018-08-27: The swamp monster “nixed issuing a statement that praised the heroism and life of Sen. John …
2018-08-27: John McCain’s final letter to Americans
2018-08-27: * father father we don’t need to escalate you are the reason I’ve been waiting all these years …
2018-08-26: Thanks, @smokey, for your replies to my reflections. I think your confusion stems from the fact that …
2018-08-22: * The worst fear that can ever be hurled starts with an earthquake, birds, and snakes. He hides like …
2018-08-22: * well, we’re movin’ on up to the east side: four men living all together, where the kisses are hers …
2018-08-21: Some reflections on “When Leaders become Followers” There was an excellent piece this morning by @schuth asking “what happens when we think about our …
2018-08-20: Let us boldly contemn all imitation, though it comes to us graceful and fragrant as the morning; and …
2018-08-20: * You must remember this: if you smile at me, I will understand. I hate people when they’re not …
2018-08-19: If anyone spotted this earlier announcement of a possible MSP>NYC>MSP roadtrip via Toronto, …
2018-08-19: Word Ladder ONE ODE ODD ADD AID BID BIN WIN WON
2018-08-19: Word Ladder BUSH BUST BEST BEET FEET FRET FREE TREE
2018-08-18: …poetry like speech itself is made out of paradox, contradiction, irresolvables … It uses …
2018-08-18: Twitter Replacement: A Tragicomedy in Two More Acts Estragon: What a boring TV show! Vladimir: …
2018-08-18: Twitter Replacement: A Tragicomedy in Two More Acts Estragon: These idiots have no idea how to play …
2018-08-18: Twitter Replacement: A Tragicomedy in 1 Act E: Ingredients are all just scattered around! And no …
2018-08-18: In Zen they say: If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, try it …
2018-08-17: Pop songs aren’t the only earworms I’m building centos from. TV show themes are colliding in my …
2018-08-15: * On Wednesdays I go shopping and have buttered scones for tea — oh no, I’ve said too much. I …
2018-08-15: * She’s a good girl. Crazy about Elvis and somebody else’s favorite song. She’s filing her nails …
2018-08-14: The Cento: an Example As I walk thru this wicked world, searching for light in the darkness of …
2018-08-14: The Cento: an Introduction It is “…a poetical work wholly composed of verses or passages taken from …
2018-08-14: It’s a complicated Primary Day in Minnesota. Please try to go vote!
2018-08-13: Excellent piece by @schuth: Selling your Power Back to Twitter. But then, I’m a sucker for …
2018-08-13: Why, why did I wake up this morning with several commercial jingles from the 80s taking turns being …
2018-08-12: At the Mia, a Dutch painting from the 1650s entitled “Lady at her Toilet,” which …
2018-08-12: Excellent brunch at the cacophonous Copper Hen, then a stroll around the MIA, which seems to be …
2018-08-12: List #11: East to West Thomas B. Aldrich, William Cullen Bryant, Schuyler Colfax, Rear Admiral …
2018-08-12: We’re still in the “horseless carriage” phase of Micro.blog. We’re defining …
2018-08-12: Test post. See this conversation. Using MarsEdit, I’ve added alt text to an image. (I’m …
2018-08-11: “Late” Capitalism? Really? What if this is only the beginning?
2018-08-11: Hazy day in Minneapolis, due to the wildfires in British Columbia.
2018-08-11: Nameless Decades Remember when decades used to have names? The Thirties, the Seventies. According to the naming …
2018-08-10: Counting the days: 17,534.
2018-08-09: A delightful time at Common Roots Cafe in south Minneapolis today with @macgenie, @patrickrhone, …
2018-08-07: Word Ladder WORK PORK PECK PEAK PEAT PRAT PRAY PLAY
2018-08-07: Word Ladder HATE LATE LAVE LOVE
2018-08-07: Word Ladder: Transmutation LEAD LOAD GOAD GOLD
2018-08-03: First 10 Lists List #1 List #2, #3, #4 List #5 List #6, #7 List #8 List #9, #10
2018-08-02: List #9: 1, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 28, 35, 36, 40, 41, 42, 45 List #10: 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, 00, 000, 0000, …
2018-07-29: Even after a year, it’s still so strange: I just bought wine, on a Sunday, in Minnesota.
2018-07-27: List #8: It’s Raining Men Baby, You’re: a Rich Man, A Man in Need, A Most Peculiar Man Taxman, …
2018-07-26: Reminder from @macgenie: “We are having a Micro Meetup at lunch time on August 9 in Minneapolis!” …
2018-07-26: 25 Jan 2016: Joined Facebook. 15 July 2017: Deactivated my account. Today: Deleted my account.
2018-07-24: A MPLS>NYC roadtrip in late September is slowly taking shape, with a stop in the Quad Cities to …
2018-07-23: I may have just committed a grave tactical error: It’s 9pm on a Monday night and somehow I am now 30 …
2018-07-18: List #6: Minneapolis, Rochester, La Crosse, Tomah, Madison, Beloit, Rockford. List #7: Rockford, …
2018-07-18: Signal boost: Twin Cities Micro.blog meetup August 9th, noon to 1:30, in the common room at Common …
2018-07-13: The Desperate Party But, wherever a man goes, men will pursue and paw him with their dirty …
2018-07-13: Two years since the last post at Wood s lot. The blogger, Mark Woods, died in February of 2017. He …
2018-07-12: Happy 201st, Henry, from a Starbucks inside a Target. “Thank Heaven, here is not all the …
2018-07-07: List #5 100,000 Airplanes. 7A-WF–83429. 2162 Votes. 365 Days. H.Con–172. Ninety Miles Away. …
2018-07-04: List #2 Harrison Taylor Harding Roosevelt List #3 Lincoln Garfield McKinley Kennedy List #4 …
2018-07-01: Readings The Great 78rpm Project The Dictionary of American Regional English Thoreau in Minnesota
2018-07-01: Amazing: I’ve actually managed to transfer registration and hosting of three domains from one …
2018-06-29: List #1 Ur, Kenorland, Columbia, Rodinia, Pannotia, Pangaea.
2018-06-29: Looking through the bent-back tulips to see how the other half lives… (Today’s earworm.)
2018-06-28: 🔗 Fully funded — Ursula K Le Guin: A Poet’s Legacy
2018-06-28: He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and …
2018-06-28: First post from MarsEdit.
2018-06-27: 🔗 Thoughts on the Internet, fragmentation and consolidation, and singing weird songs on Micro.blog …
2018-06-27: 🔗 People who think their opinions are superior to others are most prone to overestimating their …
2018-06-23: Drake’s Equation & the Church @frostedechoes recently wrote an interesting post on Dunbar’s Number and the Church. It’s worth …
2018-06-20: Signal boost for any other Twin Cities Microbloggers within the sound of my voice: Let’s have a …
2018-06-17: Yes, this: “On Fathers Day, don’t forget your friends who have lost their dads.” (@macgenie) I would …
2018-06-16: Breaking up with James Joyce
2018-06-16: To survive our high-speed society, cultivate ‘temporal bandwidth’: “…the width of your present, …
2018-06-16: The Strange Case of the Missing Joyce Scholar.
2018-06-16: Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and …
2018-06-15: You may think I’m a fish out of water, till you discover I’m not a fish. You may believe I fell …
2018-06-14: It’s a beautiful day outside. Or so I’ve been told.
2018-06-10: Signal boost: Today We Start. A new meta-microblog by @simonwoods. Follow!
2018-06-10: @schuth I’ve been enjoying DWP #14 so far. Some very difficult material, so my read-through has been …
2018-06-08: An excellent remembrance that gets at the heart of why the news of Bourdain’s suicide has been so …
2018-06-08: A fantastic short piece on depression: The Piggyback Guy by @patrickrhone
2018-06-01: Museum Leadership in a Time of Crisis
2018-05-31: Late lunch at Namaste on Hennepin.
2018-05-30: Tempus loquendi, tempus tacendi.
2018-05-23: I’m the guy at the coffeeshop with weird pencils and absolutely no laptop.
2018-05-23: Dogen: To carry yourself forward and experience myriad things is delusion. That myriad things come …
2018-05-23: Philip Roth: Portnoy’s Complaint author dies aged 85
2018-05-23: A Gun Studies Syllabus (via the late, great Dangerousmeta)
2018-05-22: Propaganda: writing history before you’ve won, as if you already had. This can work for a while but …
2018-05-22: Frank Zappa: Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.
2018-05-20: Robert Adams: If you’re not interested in surprises, you shouldn’t be a photographer.
2018-05-20: It’s Sunday afternoon. Every window is wide open, overlooking a street lined with ginkgos. …
2018-05-18: 30 seconds into his talk, the guy blithely mentioned how his company was embedding RFID chips into …
2018-05-16: A view of Bde Maka Ska
2018-05-16: PSA: Express your interest in Micro.blog swag
2018-04-30: spine poem #9 The widening spell of the leaves, my life corrupted into song. Pure, unattainable …
2018-04-30: Weldon Kees
2018-04-29: Elizabeth Bishop
2018-04-27: CD Wright
2018-04-26: spine poem #8 “Spring shade, spring essence.” Song of the departed stranger. Music, imitations, …
2018-04-25: Carolyn Kizer (from Harping On)
2018-04-24: Muriel Rukeyser (from The Speed of Darkness)
2018-04-24: First post from Icro beta…
2018-04-23: Harryette Mullen (from Sleeping with the Dictionary) (h/t Shaxper)
2018-04-22: spine poem #7 Overtime field work, temporary help: why aren’t you at work?
2018-04-21: Bill Holm (from Boxelder Bug Variations)
2018-04-20: This afternoon, while looking for something else, I stumbled on the site where I first encountered …
2018-04-20: Hayden Carruth (from If You Call This Cry a Song)
2018-04-19: spine poem #6 Mermaids in the basement howl ravishing disunities: these are not sweet girls.
2018-04-18: Jack Gilbert
2018-04-17: Jim Harrison
2018-04-16: Arthur Sze
2018-04-16: RIP Sam Hamill
2018-04-16: spine poem #5 Locusts at the edge of summer, harping on all day. Permanent red blood: tin, straw, …
2018-04-15: I love discovering old bookmarks. This is from a trip I took to the Tate three days before returning …
2018-04-13: I wonder what it’s like to be on the wrong side of history. It must be a terrible feeling.
2018-04-11: James Schuyler
2018-04-10: spine poem #4 Bedouin of the London evening, nobody’s Ezekiel, seeing things of no country I know. …
2018-04-09: Fascinating read: “A Plan to Rescue the Web from the Internet.” (via @robertbrook)
2018-04-09: For Micro Monday, I’m calling attention to @robertbrook for all his excellent photos of London.
2018-04-09: Camille Rankine, from Incorrect Merciful Impulses
2018-04-07: Tomas Tranströmer (trns Robin Fulton)
2018-04-06: spine poem #3 Stealing sugar from the castle, playing the black piano, passing through broken …
2018-04-05: “American Food Global Flavors”
2018-04-05: A view of Lake Street
2018-04-04: spine poem #2 Oceanic codes, appearing in the middle distance above the river, tug the great enigma …
2018-04-03: spine poem #1 The novice insomniac, sleeping with the dictionary, calling a wolf a wolf… My …
2018-04-03: It’s National Poetry Month. Since I am one of the Unacknowledged Legislators of the World, I suppose …
2018-04-03: Someone has moved the abandoned sign. Maybe the garbage collector, a little choked up at the sign’s …
2018-04-02: Some modern captions might read: “On the Internet, almost no one knows you’re a dog. But someone …
2018-04-02: I was just thinking of that old cartoon from the 90s: A dog sitting at a computer sez to the other …
2018-04-01: Blue Moon at dawn
2018-03-31: A few years ago, I was in a coffeeshop full of strangers. At a nearby table, an older man was being …
2018-03-30: Found this sign today — “Home is wherever I am with you” — in the garbage room of my apartment …
2018-03-28: Hello World. Afternoon light.