Music and Cats

I can’t explain why this photo of Sergei inspired me to look for poetry, but in my search I found (again) Pablo Neruda’s wonderful Oda al Gato (in translation, because my Spanish is not so good). Here’s an excerpt:
O little
emperor without a realm,
conqueror without a homeland,
diminutive parlor tiger, nuptial
sultan of heavens
roofed in erotic tiles:
when you […]

There’s a reason it’s called National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day, instead of, say, National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Evening. Once I had all of the shelves and drawers out of the main part of the refrigerator, and had begun the soaking and scraping process, I realized that scrubbing down the entire beast would in […]

I have to confess: I did not clean out my refrigerator today. I was going to do it, because I thought that today was National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day. And apparently, according to some calendars, it is. While the origins of this (holi?)day are lost in the mists of pre-Internet time, the most wordy […]

What do carbon-neutral and podcast have in common? Each was selected by the Oxford University Press as its Word of the Year; podcast in 2005 and carbon-neutral (a two-word phrase, really) last year.
Yesterday, the OUP announced the 2007 Word of the Year: Locavore.
From the OUPBlog press release:
“The “locavore” movement encourages consumers to buy from farmers’ […]

On Saturday afternoon, golden ginko leaves fluttered in a light breeze, almost ready to fall.
I’m almost ready to fall, too — in just a few minutes — asleep.