Archive for November, 2009
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
The Democratization of Literature
If you look at the Greek plays, they’re really good. And there’s just a handful of them. Well, how good would they be if there were 2,500 of them? But that’s the future looking back at us. Anything you can think of, there’s going to be millions of them. Just the sheer number of things [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in poetic mumbo-jumbo by Tim
Monday, November 16th, 2009
Twitter & the History of Poetic Utility
A few years ago I was driving to a softball tournament with a pair of microbiologists who didn’t like my taste in music (folk, for the record — and no, this isn’t the beginning of a bad joke about cell division). Shuffling through my CD case, they came across a burned disc with “To Tim, [...]
7 Comments » - Posted in poetic mumbo-jumbo by Tim
Friday, November 6th, 2009
The Importance of Poetry
When I was a freshman in college I took my first poetry class, and my father started referring to me as “the poet,” like an epithet. Even then I had no interest in being a poet — I had a passing interest in writing fiction, mostly as a hobby, and thought I’d minor in creative [...]
8 Comments » - Posted in golden nugget posts,poetic mumbo-jumbo by Tim
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
November Fools & Our Selection Process
On April 1st of last spring, UC-San Diego’s communications office accidentally sent every single applicant — 46,337 of them — acceptance emails. “We’re thrilled that you’ve been admitted to UC San Diego, and we’re showcasing our beautiful campus on Admit Day.” A half an hour later they sent another email, saying, “Oops!” Last night, I [...]
