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

Jul 29, 2011

Movie Review: Horrible Bosses

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  It’s Friday, movie time, so I’m confessing that I did thoroughly enjoy Horrible Bosses, a delightful, dumb popcorn movie if there ever...
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Jul 27, 2011

Sharon Olds' "Victims": Again, Sympathy vs. Judgment

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Tilt Cormorant The Victims by Sharon Olds Sharon Olds’ “The Victims” is another poem about the death of a character who...
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Jul 24, 2011

John Crowe Ransom, "Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter": Sympathy vs. Judgment and the Dramatic Monologue

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Agrarian Movement Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter by John Crowe Ransom : The Poetry Foundation I've thought several times of p...
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Jul 20, 2011

ANIMAL MISCELLANY featuring Pitbull vs. kitten

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I Am Not a Pit Bull Speaking of circus animals and horse whispering (recent posts here), today I offer a dog and kitten video, three minu...
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Jul 16, 2011

Movie Review: Buck

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While it’s still a weekend, let me recommend the movie Buck , a documentary about Buck Brannaman, the real-life horse whisperer. One of mov...
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Jul 14, 2011

Yeats' "The Circus Animals' Desertion": Back to Basics

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Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all the ladders start In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart.    My circus anim...
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Jul 13, 2011

Aristocrats and Skunks

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A Litter of Aristocrats In the visitor comments last time, Brenda’s Arizona tossed in a few large questions. They touch on important co...
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Michigan, Ohio River Valley, United States
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