anorthite

Finally got an icon, so that's nice. The cloaked Entity is me, and all the little creatures scuttling by are the dozens of quotes and scene fragments for a stupid essay about John Brown (but really about America because isn't it always) that I am writing in my mind. Fortunately, this essay hinges on my picking up AND completing Herman Melville works and so they are going to have to continue scuttling for quite some time.

Undeveloped anecdote that made me think of all this: my dad and brother have gotten indoctrinated into the great ritual that is college football, and they spent all Saturday watching The OSU/UofM game. What was funny (to me) was that they muted the entire tv whenever the ad break came on -- isn't that part of the game, if you take college football out of its looming commercial context, what are you looking at, etc. etc. Anyway.

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