http://www.hyperliterature.com Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:01:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Bobby watched the bugs smash against his windshield one after the other, and each "KUSPLUTCH" they made as they exploded on his windshield was more satisfying than the last. He liked the way they sounded crunchy and liquidy all at the same time. Like his momma eating Frosted Flakes. He ... http://www.hyperliterature.com/?p=1780 This whole “Ground Zero” mosque is driving me mental. I really try to keep an open mind about political arguments, but it’s getting harder and harder for me to even tolerate the GOP. They have a considerable portion of our population convinced that the proposed mosque in NYC will be ... http://www.hyperliterature.com/?p=1772 I'm about three-quarters of the way through Joseph J. Ellis's Pulitzer Prize-winning book Founding Brothers, and it occurred to me this morning that the political and ideological divide between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson is one that, as a country, we're still struggling to overcome. For those of you that ... http://www.hyperliterature.com/?p=1763 Tracy Clark-Flory has written an interesting article over at Salon.com. In the article, Clark-Flory contemplates the difference between women reading/watching romance and men watching pornography (Yes, I know that porn is not the exclusive domain of men. However, romance novels, by and large, are consumed by women.) Clark-Flory comes to the ... http://www.hyperliterature.com/?p=1756 Yesterday in southern New Jersey, a yet-to-be identified person used the Walmart P.A. system to make this announcement: "Attention, Walmart customers: All black people, leave the store now." Predictably, people are quite upset about this. The black community is calling for Walmart to apologize, the Walmart manager is claiming he has ... http://www.hyperliterature.com/?p=1751 I'm terrible at math. And by terrible, I mean that Albert Einstein could totally out-math me, and he's been dead for fifty-five years*. Several weeks ago, I was planning a dinner for myself, Leigh, and my mother. I wanted to make three 1/3 lb. burgers, and I found myself flummoxed ... http://www.hyperliterature.com/?p=1744 On more than one occasion I've written about my hometown on this blog. Before you begin this post, you might want have a look at the "Texaspecific" section of the blog for a little primer on the interesting location that is my hometown. This post "Small Town Values" might be ... http://www.hyperliterature.com/?p=1739 Teaching is an interesting profession. Some days are really boring. After so many years, I've pretty much memorized my lectures, so much so that I've even got all my dumb jokes memorized. All I need to do is glance at my syllabus to see what day it is, and I ... http://www.hyperliterature.com/?p=1737 I try to remain a calm and reasonable person. I really do. I try not to call people "fuckwits" or "idiotic shitheads." Well, at least not to their faces. It's hard sometimes, but I try to keep my mouth shut. For one thing, I have ulcers, so getting all worked up isn't ... http://www.hyperliterature.com/?p=1730 If there's one thing I've learned this summer, it's that I'm apparently not appropriately masculine. In hindsight, I've probably possessed this deficiency for quite some time, but the release of Bay's "movie," "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" has made my lack of testosterone blatantly obvious. I feel I should elaborate: I thought the ... http://www.hyperliterature.com/?p=1717