Comments for Sherry Chandler

Comment on Tales of sustainability by Max

Max — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:18:12 +0000

NOT OUT OF A CAN!
In this fast pace country we live in, most people get their food out of a can, or maybe TV supper tray (My dinner still comes at noon time). Now that we are able now to raise our own vegetables on our place that’s what we eat and we’re enjoying it greatly. (I do not care for green beans out of a can)
So I say, more power to those people who crave fresh vegetables. If you have the means, by all means do it. A good meal of fresh vegetables may be the most enjoyment for that persons day. Of course it may be ruined when the TV is turned on and we watch all the campaign updates!

Comment on Berea College makes the NYTimes by Jessie Carty

Jessie Carty — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:01:41 +0000

It really seems there should be a way for this to happen at more institutions. I would have loved to have come out of college with no debt! (and considering I was getting free lunch for part of my schooling I don’t think I was well off!)

Comment on Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. by Koshembos

Koshembos — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:36:40 +0000

In the ups and downs of societal cycles one would expect the ups and downs to get shallower with time as seems to be the case with Western Europe in the last 60 years.

We still don’t know whether the last 8 years were an aberration or a regularly appearing low.

Comment on Berea College makes the NYTimes by mike lovell

mike lovell — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:33:29 +0000

This is a rather insightful article, for I have heard of Berea College, but beyond that no details. Very interesting. Thank you for the post. It does pose some very interesting questions in regards to the hearty and revered institutions such as Harvard and Yale which hold billions in endowments, and yet hold such high financial standards of acceptance.

Comment on Digital Yeats by Harry

Harry — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:39:43 +0000

As much as I’m pro-science and pro-reason, and have always been fascinated by the *idea* of science poetry, I’m not sure the two really mix. I mean you can use themes and images suggested by science as a source for poetry, but in the end I think that they are two rather different impulses. The physicist Dirac said:

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it’s the exact opposite.

And I don’t think that’s *quite* fair, but there’s some truth to it. I think poetry has to work on an irrational level [pre-rational? sub-rational?] if it works at all. It feeds on ambiguity and messiness and sleight of hand.

Comment on Cartoons by sherry

sherry — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:21:00 +0000

Harry, the week got away from me but I meant to say that I agree with you that The New Yorker is often way too self-important but if they published one of my poems I’d still be in Seventh Heaven. Life is like that I guess.

Ain’t gonna happen, but I can dream.

As for the cartoon, I think it would have been better greeted by silence. Controversy just makes it more important than it should be.

Comment on Well, if you can’t have birth control by sherry

sherry — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:33:05 +0000

Ralph, my lad, let me refer you to Poppysmatus who may have something in the trunk of his 1963 Chevy that will interest you. On the other hand, he’ll probably make you listen to a translation of some of the steamier parts of Catullus before he lets go of the merchandise.

I hear tell that Amazon sells some amazing stuff but, being a nice girl, I stay out of the back room over there.