Wine, women, and song——and cats
by Maureen McLane | Jan-24-2009
and men, bread pudding, and books: again, what’s not to like?
People: LITERACY IS FUNDAMENTAL. As someone said…...
I realized I may have mis-inputted Joshua Clarke’s name as Joshua Corey: sorry Joshua!!!
Perils of liveblogging.
Let’s go, as the poet Anne Carson says, “random channel”: shout-out to my cats Biscuit and Bopr!
And great poetry re: felines: Christopher Smart, “Jubilate Agno”: For I shall praise my cat Jeoffrey.
On another front: We will not have to suffer through another book “written” by a presidential pet, right? Was that a first George Bush phenomenon?
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