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Poetry Postage

Thanks, Davey, for the heads up

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Is there anything Dana Gioia cannot do with poetry?

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Former National Endowment for the Arts chair Dana Gioia, who lives in Santa Rosa, is on the committee to select commemorative stamps. On March 3, the Postal Service releases a series of stamps, its largest literary project ever, honoring 20th century poets Elizabeth Bishop, Theodore Roethke, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Sylvia Plath, Denise Levertov, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Hayden and E.E. Cummings. The poets’ images are on the fronts of the stamps, and their poems are on the paper that backs the press-on stamps.

Read more: https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/30/DDAJ1MUC6Q.DTL#ixzz1l92H5esQ

St. Patrick’s Day at UD

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What’s good on Netflix Instant View?

So tonight, I decided to take the night off and watch something on Netflix.  I hate Netflix Instant View because it consists of mostly awful TV shows and B-Movies.  I had this great idea for a website: a site that rifles through Netflix Instant View Library and finds the good stuff.  Turns out it already exists.  So I looked around and found a movie that looked interesting enough–a light comedy that is cerebral.  So I ordered some Chinese food (I had been dying for some fried rice!) and started the movie.  It was called “Slacker.”  It’s a 1991 cult comedy movie set in Austin, TX.  It is a series of short vignettes of what it’s like to be a 20-something in Austin.  It was well worth the watch!  I enjoyed it quite a bit because it was entertaining and cerebral.  It wasn’t overly serious or entirely base; it was more of a mix between high and low.  There was a lot going on subtly, and the vignettes held together with a series of common themes.  So the next time you’re on Netflix Instant view and you’ve nothing to watch check out “Slacker.”  Chinese food always sounds like it will be a good idea.


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