BillHeise | September 27, 2010
Patty Griffin is one of my favorite musicians ever, and she has written one of my favorite songs (perhaps my favorite song) ever. It is called Up To the Mountain. I heard it in a movie theater a couple months ago and, as I always do since I had my stroke (I’m very emotional since [...]
BillHeise | September 26, 2010
I found this story on the Internet today. It’s another story about grammar mavens–this time it’s Gene Weingarten of the Washington Post– pronouncing the English language dead. The English language, which arose from humble Anglo-Saxon roots to become the lingua franca of 600 million people worldwide and the dominant lexicon of international discourse, is dead. [...]
BillHeise | September 23, 2010
The best show I never watched was a series called Better Off Ted. I discovered it by accident at the end of last year’s television season just in time for it to get canceled (I watched one show). It was a funny show that had the bad luck to have been picked up by ABC, [...]
BillHeise | September 21, 2010
Found this article entitled “We can build whatever animal you want to eat, say scientists.” “For future applications out there the sky’s the limit,” David Edwards of the Biotechnology Industry Association said. “If you can imagine it, scientists can try to do it.” That IS good news! I only want to eat parts of various [...]
BillHeise | September 21, 2010
I would have put Mariana Montalvo’s music on my web site earlier, as she is one of my favorite Chilean-inspired folk-singers now living in France, but I only found this on the web today. It is one of my 5 favorite songs of all time, La Libélula, from her album Cantos del alma: Another song [...]
BillHeise | September 18, 2010
This is a revision of the first paper I wrote in graduate school. It concerns Anne Bradstreet, the first poet who wrote European-style poetry on American soil. I sent an earlier versions of it to several academic journals, but they all rejected it. One told me to revise it and send it back, but told [...]
BillHeise | September 17, 2010
Found this article on the Internet today about the growing debate between young Lady Gaga and feminist Camille Paglia. Leading feminist author Camille Paglia, 63, has hit out at the singer’s flamboyant, racy image – insisting her over-the-top sexuality is actually ‘stripped of genuine eroticism’. This is interesting (to me), because Paglia thinks that sex [...]
BillHeise | September 16, 2010
I have written about Ms. Spears in conjunction with my post on the fabulous Miss Brooks. I thought I’d attempt it again because of my post earlier this week on Cramer v Stewart, for she gives us the same fundamental oppositional pair, which, in my previous post I said was the product of the problematical [...]
BillHeise | September 14, 2010
The beginning sounds familiar (you know the stuff about “midway on the path of life I found myself in a dark wood”), but I don’t remember Dante having a dragon-spine sickle to mow down creatures who got in his way. Nor do I remember any Balrogs. I could have sworn there was a Virgil in [...]
BillHeise | September 14, 2010
This started out as a response to a Facebook note posted by one of my friends. He had written: Well there you go: After voting in 2001 for a tax decrease by pushing its cost onto the next administration, Mitch McConnell (R-KY) shows his support for the working class by refusing to support a continuation [...]
