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https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2007/11/open-letter.html andrewjshields: "An Open Letter" "eternally stressed semanticist" posted a hysterical " open letter " (actually, a form letter with blanks to fill in) for anyone with expert... openletter https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2009/05/doin-that-rag.html andrewjshields: Doin' That Rag Here's a bit of The Dead from Charlottesville, April 14 (check out Warren's jamming at the end; first-rate stuff!): doinrag https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2006/02/miles-and-t-rex_05.html andrewjshields: Miles and T-Rex Miles: T-Rex was a bad guy. Andrew: Why? M: Because he ate meat. A: But you eat meat. Are you a bad guy? M: No, T-Rex *killed* its meat. We ... milesrex https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2009/05/5dpp-week-12.html?showComment=1241949000000 andrewjshields: The Fifth Daily Poem Project, Week Twelve Call for Votes THE FIFTH DAILY POEM PROJECT, WEEK TWELVE Here are the poems to vote for in the twelfth and final week of the fifth Daily Poem Project (the ... the fifthdaily poemproject weekcall for https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/06/watching-sinner-and-alcaraz-without.html andrewjshields: Watching Sinner and Alcaraz without rooting for either player While watching the French Open men's singles final today, I noticed that I can better enjoy the quality of the play when I am not rooting fo... rooting forwatchingsinneralcarazwithout https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2009/01/dead-people-voting.html andrewjshields: Dead people voting This cartoon from the New Yorker in November made me wonder how many people who voted early were dead by Election Day. Shouldn't the Republ... dead peoplevoting https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2022/03/theyre-all-same-but-each-one-is.html andrewjshields: "They're all the same, but each one is different from every other one":... In Wayne Wang's "Smoke" (1995), tobacconist Auggie Wren (Harvey Keitel) takes a photograph kitty corner from his store every morning at 8 am... https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2011/05/theories-of-mainstream.html andrewjshields: Theories of the Mainstream No mainstream, whether literary, artistic, or political, has any need to come up with a theory to explain itself. Theory is necessary to exp... of thetheoriesmainstream https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2015/ andrewjshields: 2015 https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2008/11/brand-new-dodge.html andrewjshields: Brand New Dodge Whenever it's November 22, and I happen to notice that it is, I think of Greg Brown 's "Brand New '64 Dodge": Money comes out of Dad's billf... brand newdodge https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2010/10/first-rain-in-delhi-on-whale-sound.html andrewjshields: First Rain in Delhi on Whale Sound Nic Sebastian reads my poem "First Rain in Delhi" on Whale Sound here . Thanks, Nic! first raindelhiwhalesound https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/index.html andrewjshields https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2013/08/seamus-heaneys-rain-stick-poetry-and.html?showComment=1403449242070 andrewjshields: Seamus Heaney's "The Rain Stick": Poetry and Paraphrase The death of Seamus Heaney took me back to this essay I wrote in the late 90s, but never published. POETRY AND PARAPHRASE Seamus Hea... seamus heaneythe rainstickpoetryparaphrase https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2008/09/johnny-cash-by-david-bauer.html andrewjshields: Johnny Cash, by David Bauer [My friend David Bauer wrote this article for the Basler Zeitung on Friday, September 11. I liked it so much, I asked him to do an English... johnny cashby davidbauer https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2022/08/shifting-from-manual-to-automatic.html andrewjshields: Shifting from manual to automatic transmission and back In Basel, our old VW Golf has a manual transmission, but while in the US last month, I drove my sister's not-quite-so-old... to automaticshiftingmanualtransmissionback https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2023/04/horizons-gerhard-richter-and-david.html andrewjshields: Horizons: Gerhard Richter and David Hockney (on exhibitions in 1998-1999) [I wrote this essay back in late 1999 and early 2000. This morning, I read this piece on Hockney by Katy Evans-Bush and remembered my essay... gerhard richterdavid hockney https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2023/10/well-chosen-repertoire-by-pierre-de.html andrewjshields: Well-chosen repertoire by the Pierre de Bethmann Trio and the Jacob Manz & Johanna... At last night's concert at the Bird's Eye in Basel by pianist Pierre de Bethmann's trio with guitarist Nelson Veras and bassist Sylvain Roma...