Andreas Matern’s Weblog

Wow, powerful poetry for a Thursday…
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American Life in Poetry: Column 149

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006

Elsewhere in this newspaper you may find some advice for maintaining and repairing troubled relationships. Here, in a poem by Linda Pastan of Maryland, is one of those relationships in need of some help.

The Quarrel

If there were a monument
to silence, it would not be
the tree whose leaves
murmur continuously
among themselves;

nor would it be the pond
whose seeming stillness
is shattered
by the quicksilver
surfacing of fish.

If there were a monument
to silence, it would be you
standing so upright, so unforgiving,
your mute back deflecting
every word I say.

10 universities with free writing courses -> linkage.

Because I don’t have enough to do…

I didn’t even read the article, I’m just a little bit insane for Tina Fey.

I really like the robot sketch I found here.  Gotta love surfing the web with bloglines…

Thanks, digg.  I’ll have to make sure Boo doesn’t have any dastardly plans this evening.

I didn’t even know the movie was being made, let alone being shown at Sundance, but, the Choke (Chuck Palahniuk novel) movie is getting reviews: Try Not To Choke On All The Reviews | The Cult

I love google docs, but this has made it that much easier: Official Google Data APIs Blog: Easily upload your documents to Google Docs!

A simple application that lets you upload documents to your google docs space.

Fantastic!

I gotta get my horn on the green machine to play Fraggle Rock!  Thanks Reallifecomics!

While procrastinating this morning, I ran into a post on Becoming a Writer Seriously which linked to this great blog post by Jeff Vandermeer: Ecstatic Days » Blog Archive » How to Write a Novel in Two Months The advice which he marks as Writing Related is really good stuff, I recommend it.

I’ve been working on creating a daily “habit” of writing - I write an hour a day, and it has been working well for me. Need to keep it up, however I think I’ll be giving myself this weekend off. We are off to Atlantic City to gamble, eat, drink and, most importantly, remember my Father on the one year anniversary of his passing. Prosit to you, Dad.

Now, however, I regretfully must go back to work. MS/MS in java waits for no one.