tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post1466449447062660190..comments2024-03-28T14:53:38.827-04:00Comments on BLCKDGRD: The Ruined and Vacant SheetsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-32131760144835357922018-12-19T19:22:23.223-05:002018-12-19T19:22:23.223-05:00El Cinema si muy Amigo.El Cinema si muy Amigo.Mongo, At The Momenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00973606827337262084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-15259152322098846312018-12-19T12:15:37.822-05:002018-12-19T12:15:37.822-05:00Me, I love me some movies.Me, I love me some movies.Jim H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02088100982761595050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-51320415825835445292018-12-19T12:01:10.574-05:002018-12-19T12:01:10.574-05:001)the pilot lost in wright's poem reminds me o...1)<i>the pilot lost</i> in wright's poem reminds me of 'the lost pilot' by james tate<br /><br />2)here's a james tate poem<br /><br /><b>I Am a Finn</b><br /><br />I am standing in the post office, about<br />to mail a package back to Minnesota, to my family.<br />I am a Finn. My name is Kasteheimi (Dewdrop).<br /><br />Mikael Agricola (1510-1557) created the Finnish language.<br />He knew Luther and translated the New Testament.<br />When I stop by the Classé Café for a cheeseburger<br /><br />no one suspects that I am a Finn.<br />I gaze at the dimestore reproductions of Lautrec<br />on the greasy walls, at the punk lovers afraid<br /><br />to show their quivery emotions, secure<br />in the knowledge that my grandparents really did<br />emigrate from Finland in 1910 – why<br /><br />is everybody leaving Finland, hundreds of<br />thousands to Michigan and Minnesota, and now Australia?<br />Eighty-six percent of Finnish men have blue<br /><br />or grey eyes. Today is Charlie Chaplin’s<br />one hundredth birthday, though he is not<br />Finnish or alive: ‘Thy blossom, in the bud<br /><br />laid low.’ The commonest fur-bearing animals<br />are the red squirrel, musk-rat, pine-marten<br />and fox. There are about 35,000 elk.<br /><br />But I should be studying for my exam.<br />I wonder if Dean will celebrate with me tonight,<br />assuming I pass. Finnish Literature<br /><br />really came alive in the 1860s.<br />Here, in Cambridge, Massachusetts,<br />no one cares that I am a Finn.<br /><br />They’ve never even heard of Frans Eemil Sillanpää,<br />winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Literature.<br />As a Finn, this infuriates me.<br /><br />3)reading about sillanpää, i learned about the finnish civil war in the early 20th century<br /><br />4)i also learned that many of his works had been made into movies<br /><br />5)speaking of films and finland, the phrase in quotes after tate's mention of charlie chaplin is from the finnish national anthem<br /><br />5a)charlie chaplin's 100th birthday, the 'today' of tate's poem, was april 16th 1989<br /><br />6)tate's poem speaks of the post office, as does<br /><br />https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/opinion/trump-postal-service.html<br /><br />published 'today' - also see<br /><br />https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/03/opinion/why-the-post-office-makes-america-great.html<br /><br />mistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-29568945099698904002018-12-19T08:56:03.553-05:002018-12-19T08:56:03.553-05:00Totes linear, yes, although the maxim, was, now ob...Totes linear, yes, although the maxim, was, now obviously, flawed. And yes. Vouchies.Landruhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11954074164878242561noreply@blogger.com