So there we were, three Americans in Toronto on Tuesday night, watching MSNBC streaming on a Mac desktop monitor and each of us with laptop open on our laps and hitting refresh on our browsers. Nerds. I knew I’d be obsessing about the Super Tuesday results, but it’s not like you can go to a Canadian sports bar and demand…
Barack vs. Bill
While I’m not crazy about the ongoing Barack Obama-Bill Clinton smackdown, I get why it works for both campaigns. As we saw in the quick “truce” over Hillary’s comments on Martin Luther King, Obama and Hillary Clinton realize that direct attacks on each other (especially on volatile issues like race) are tricky. If she attacks him head-on, she risks looking…
Obama Wins at Caesars!
This is totally awesome. The Nevada Democratic Party site has caucus-by-caucus results, which means you can see exactly how each candidate did at the casino caucuses. The theory was that these at-large caucuses would help Obama, since the culinary workers’ union (which represents many casino workers) had endorsed him. It doesn’t seem to have worked out that way–Clinton edged him…
Obama and Clinton…Tie?
While everyone is reporting that Hillary Clinton has won the Nevada caucuses, it appears that Obama will be awarded more delegates in the end. Quoth DailyKos: “Obama wins Nevada.” So…shall we call it a tie and move on?
No One Is Safe
for Steve Halle Dear Mongolian Death Worm, No one is safe from my bureaucracy of cheese. We may as well pretend that this high-salt Easter is a peanut of plenty. But digging deeper we find overt Elizabeth, filthy with time. Yes of course this is straight from the heart. Now I am in my spidersuit and running for Wolf Catcher…
Al Gore for…VP?
Came across this wacky post from the Times (UK) Online suggesting that Al Gore would be a great candidate…for vice president, with Obama at the top of the ticket. Now I think Al Gore is great and all, but this seems like a profoundly dumb idea. (Okay, you can’t blame this guy for coming up with the idea: see also…
Let’s Face It…
Timothy Yu’s Facebook profileIt should also tell you something about where my current energies lie that I’m assuming the only way anyone will even know I’m making posts here is when they see it in the feed on my Facebook profile.
Blogstalgia
I am weirdly realizing that this blog has been inactive far longer than it was ever active. Looking back at my archives, it seems like my most active posting period lasted only from about March 2003 (!) to August 2004–just under a year and a half–which was followed by a 6-month gap. So that makes over three years of mostly…
MLA Marathon Reading
Okay, so it’s been, oh, 6 months or so since my last entry. But I’m popping back up to share the slew of photos I took at the MLA marathon reading in Chicago. I tried to get a shot of every reader, but I think I missed a couple at the beginning and maybe in the second half when I…
The Cover of Poetry Magazine, July/August 2007
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