Banjo52

Conversation. Especially literature and language, education, football and baseball, movies, history, then and now, birds, two-lane roads. "Banjo" is a fun word, and the instrument can make fine music. But this isn't really a blog about banjos, except in the metaphorical sense of interesting sounds riding across a valley from one porch to another. Click on any photo to enlarge. Students, remember to footnote. All text and photos: © 2009-2014 Banjo52

Apr 28, 2010

Blue Bonnet Lane, Don Edwards

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Bluebonnet, blueberry, toe-MAY-toe, toe-MAW-toe I hope we're about open minds and broadening horizons here. I suppose I'm really pus...
Apr 26, 2010

Mockingbird

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Mockingbirds can get so noisy that I guess I'm glad there are none in my neighborhood. This guy in Florida charmed me, however, and vice...
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Apr 24, 2010

Confessionalism, continued

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Left: Torso of a Gian t, Jean Arp, 1964, Detroit Institute of Art In the April 22 visitor comments here, Brenda writes: “Do/did you ever hav...
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Apr 22, 2010

Stevie Smith's "Not Waving but Drowning" and "Pretty"

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These seem to be the best, or at least best known, of Stevie Smith's poems. "Not Waving" has the kind of chill I've menti...
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Apr 20, 2010

Roots Music, Mississippi John Hurt

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In case you don't know him, or need a reminder, here's the understated lowland blues master, Mississippi John Hurt (and should you l...
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Apr 19, 2010

Robert Penn Warren's Sonnet, "Mortal Limit"

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Robert Penn Warren, Mortal Limit I shouldn't be pleased to have my species, with me in it, labeled "item" and "rot,...
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Apr 16, 2010

DATE NIGHT: movie review

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MOVIE REVIEW, DATE NIGHT: B+ First, be sure to stay till the screen goes dark. There are two sets of good outtakes on each side of t...
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