I'm taking advantage of y'all's good nature & my roll as diarist in today's "This Day in History" again with one of my loves. One of my favorite poets (not quite up there with "the Beats" but pretty close) was born on this date in 1932 - Sylvia Plath. I read a lot of her poetry in the same class as an undergrad where I discovered Allen Ginsberg & went to the Lilly Rare Books Library down in Bloomington where half of her personal collection is stored; the other half is at her alma mater, Smith College. I read her journals, drafts of her poetry, some very intense correspondence between Ted Hughes & Sylvia's mother after Sylvia's suicide (yes, I'm in the Ted Hughes was a boil - on - the - butt - of - humanity camp), etc. There was even a lock of her hair in an envelope; I cried because it was the exact same shade as mine is.
Here's a YouTube of Sylvia Plath reading my favorite poem of her's, "Lady Lazarus":
Here are some images of Sylvia:
RIP, Sylvia. Thanks for the indulgence; now, let's Countdown!
Keith’s in Philly, huh?! Gee, what on earth could be going on there that would make him want to make the trip??!! Is he a sucker for the cheese – steak?
#5 "Losing Control" AKA "Eight Days" AKA "‘Closing Argument’" AKA "McEndgame" - Senator Obama looks good for what had to be a very stressful few days. Uh, Senator McCentury, who ran Congress for the 6 years before the Dems? And, who’s been fillabustering & obstructing when Dems have been trying to actually accomplish something over the past couple of years? Senator Obama, it’s very magnanimous to ask if we’ll be better off 4 years from now, but people are a little too concerned about the immediate future, filling their gas tanks, paying their bills, etc. – at least I am – to be thinking about 4 years from now. Stick with taking President Reagan’s words & turning them on the Repubs. There’s Friday’s hero & journalistic STUD, Richard Wolffe! [insert breathless standing "o" here!] Virginia’s the state to watch? What about my fair state?! Be sure to catch my live – blogging a week from tomorrow about the POTUS & Governor’s race in Indiana as part of the big ‘ol freakin’ huge live Election Evening blog effort here at DailyKos! I wonder if Newt Gingrich’s kicking himself for not throwing his hat in the ring for POTUS this year? If the McCentury strateegery is to "win Bush states," he could be in the soup.
#4 "Off Script" AKA "Palin Comparison" AKA "Rogue Diva VS. McMaverick" AKA "Sen. Stevens Guilty" - Well, how good is Gov. Demagogue good at reading script, anyway? That’s a sign of an [insert hushed tone here] education. So, if the Governor’s going Rogue, does she have razor sharp blades coming out of her hands if she feels threatened? Just curious...
Elizabeth Hasselback is Gov. Demagogue’s new PR peep. Could Sarah Palin end up in Senator Steven’s seat or selecting the person to take his place? Let the circular firing squad with SuperSoakers begin & continue for years on end! Like Senator Stevens will actually do time – NOT. Y’all think the good people of Alaska who voted for Gov. Demagogue will vote for Senator Stevens? It wouldn’t surprise me one itty – bitty bit.
** Oh, boy... Keith’s going to have a Countdown to the Election on Saturday night. Well, what are y’all doing then?! Fake cheering was piped into the Philly hockey stadium when "she" dropped the puck?! Hey! The Colts used to be accused of doing that! Look at the big ball in Dallas; I guess everything IS bigger in Texas! **
"McCain in the Membrane" - Gov. Palin lied about something concerning Senator Obama? Say it ain’t so! The world as I know it is shattered – SHATTERED, I TELL YA’! North Carolina is REAL America, too. How ‘bout that Senator Biden interview with the FAUX News wanna – be chickadee in Florida?! Her little mister is a GOP hack – go figure...
#3 "Political Geography" AKA "Mapped Out" AKA "G.O.Predicament" - Is Senator McCentury going to be "cut off" by the RNC like Michelle Bachmann was? Wouldn’t that just be darn hilarious if the RNC actually stopped sending Senator McCentury coin? There’s that yellow Indiana again! If the RNC is going for the same kind of scorched earth policy that I believe GWB & his ilk are pursuing, they may just keep things the way they are in hopes of "purifying" the party. Senator McCentury was not the candidate of choice with the GOP to begin with; that’s the main reason they’ve never been 100% behind the whole thing.
WPITW – The Washington Post caved to Mr. Bull Snort. Joementum is forgetting what he had to say about Senator Obama during the GOP hate – fest this summer. D’Oh!
OK, what the guy in California did with "the GOP ticket" was not cool – at all. They won’t stop the hateful inciting of violence if people who support Senator Obama begin responding in kind toward the GOP. WE ARE BETTER THAN THAT!
#1 "Campaign Comment" - Oh Keith, what you said was beautiful & powerful, but Senator McCentury will not say anything about Ashley Todd because he & Gov. Demagogue have said exactly jack $hit about the other hateful rhetoric spewed during their appearances. They have said less about worse. John Moody should be strung up by his gonads!