"i believe in the sentence"

"And today, thousands more evacuees as the most active volcano on earth spews more gas and lava. Why are they worried? We'll explain when we come back." [emphasis not mine]

This is why I hate Fox News (and also, I confess, why I watch it. These stupidity moments are sometimes hysterical). It staffs irritating news anchors who ask stupid questions, make stupid statements, are angry, argue with their interview-ees, and don't even bother thinking of seeking objectivity. Of course, they're not the only network. They're just the one that's on every evening at our house, so I get to see all the stupidity. The 'explanation', by the way, of why people were worried about the active volcano spewing gas and lava right above their homes took less time than the preview of the story did.

Ooh! And I saw a book today at the library that was all about Chuck Norris and Zen. I have to say, if there is one person on this earth who seems un-zen-like, it's Chuck Norris. Although he does apparently have supernatural sheriff-powers and absurd good luck.

There's also apparently a magazine called "Cleaning Business." And yes, they only publish things 'of interest' to those in the cleaning and maintenance professions. As a janitor, I'd have to say that there's not a lot there to talk about.

My favorite magazine name so far? The Comfusion Review. The Brobdingnagian Review is a close second.

Do you know who has published in more literary magazines than anyone else on the face of the earth? Virgil Suarez. I swear, he's in almost every one of the listings in this poetry market book I checked out from the library.

T. S. Eliot is both seductive and repulsive. His rhythm always just escapes predicatbility, pattern, the language is always on the edge of form, always on the edge of unmarred beauty. His image sequences are perpetually on the verge of making sense. I find that a little bit of Eliot goes a long way. It's all very well for the absurdly well-educated individual, who can decipher all the french and latin and obscure literary quotations. But for me it's like trying to put together an Anne Geddes puzzle with all the pieces of the baby are missing. I think I might skip through him and go straight to Pound. I mean, he's supposed to be more imagistic, right, so maybe more accessible and less cerebral?

My favorite quotes of the day (sorry this post is turning out so long):

"and you do get, if you're not careful, the illusion that you are a competent person."

happiness is a kind of ripply road

"When you're receiving the Nobel Prize, you can say things like that out loud."

- Doris Betts