In which Emma writes a kinda cheesy entry but talks about people wailing on their guitars, too. Continue reading »
Category Archives: Bob Dylan
“Your debutante just knows what you need but I know what you want.”
Here’s one of the reasons I love Bob Dylan: Bob Dylan is the honey badger of singer-songwriters. Now, after typing that, I admit that I realize two things: Things move really, really fast on the Internets when it comes to what’s hot and what’s not, and the honey badger? Not so much hot anymore. And … Continue reading »
Love Minus Zero No Limits
In which Emma returns to blogging with a bit about Bob Dylan. Continue reading »
“She knows there’s no success like failure / and that failure’s no success at all.”
My grades are averaged and submitted, my presents are bought (if not stripped of their price tags and wrapped), and I’m allowing myself a few days of sugar highs and on-the-couch-reality-television stupor before getting back in the academic saddle and put the final touches on my syllabi for spring. I can hardly believe that this … Continue reading »
“The art of losing isn’t hard to master”
Forgive me again, dear readers, for dropping off of the face of the Blogosphere. It appears that Elizabeth Bishop was very much in the right: about two weeks ago, I completed the reconstruction of my witch manuscript and, in pure, unadulterated exhaustion, decided to put off the back-up-athon until the next day. You can see … Continue reading »
“Where are you going, where have you been?”
(The title of this post, incidentally, comes from the title of the Joyce Carol Oates short story I must’ve read at least — and I mean this, at least — ten thousand billion times in high school, as it seemed to be in every fiction anthology and textbook we used. I always wanted to love … Continue reading »