I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog brain bump I present: From My Dad.
Found in my electronic chapbook.
The work of [Kay Redfield] Jamison and others shows that writers are ten times more likely to be manic-depressive than the rest of the population, and poets are a remarkable forty times more likely. p. 30
From The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer”s Block and the Creative Brain. by Alice W. Flaherty.
Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, the United Nation’s Special Rapporteur on Burma sugar coated his remark when he said that the constitutional referendum on 10 May would be a ritual without real content. That’s like calling a three-card monte artist’s moves a sacred rite.
From the BBC News:
Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, the Special Rapporteur on Burma, also accused military rulers of a clampdown on people campaigning for a “no” vote.
The referendum, set for 10 May, is on whether to adopt a new constitution.
Leaders say it will pave the way for elections by 2010, but critics say it is aimed at entrenching military rule.
The charter was drafted by the generals without input from the pro-democracy opposition. Continue Reading »
I’m constantly tossing interesting websites into what I call my blogpile. Some of them find their way here in the form of regular posts, but more often than not they languish and get buried deeper in the pile. The end result is that I have to go back and do a bit of shoveling. Today’s item is Laptop Lunches.
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog brain bump I present: From My Dad.
Found in my electronic chapbook.
…jamais vu (the feeling of never having seen something which is in fact familiar – a phenomenon perhaps linked to the freshness of perception that creative writers need), and the illusion of a presence only partly distinct from the patient or writer – whether of a doppelgänger, as Dostoevsky described in his novel The Double or of the muse. p. 28
From The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer”s Block and the Creative Brain. by Alice W. Flaherty.
The military rulers of Myanmar appear to be taking a rural strategy in their campaign to foist a sham constitution off on the citizens of Myanmar. The generals seem to think that ignorant peasants can be bullied into voting the right way but village leaders aren’t so easily fooled or cowed.
From the Kaladan Press Network:
The Burmese military junta authorities warned villagers of Taungbro Sub-township in Maungdaw, Arakan State, yesterday not to cast the “No” vote in the ensuing constitutional referendum to be held on May 10. If the villagers cast votes against the regime the country will be overtaken by hardships, they cautioned, said a source close to the police.
The warning comes in the wake of the ruling military junta’s announcement that the referendum would be held on May 10. Though the authorities are mobilizing villagers to cast the “yes” vote, some village leaders are urging voters secretly to reject the draft constitution. The village leaders say that it will not bring democracy to the country, which has been ruled by the military since 1962.
On April 9, the Maungdaw Township Peace and Development Council members, United Solidarity Development Association members, Village Peace and Development Council members and members of People’s militia went to villages on the north of Maungdaw Town to mobilize villagers to cast “yes” vote in the referendum. Continue Reading »
I’m constantly tossing interesting websites into what I call my blogpile. Some of them find their way here in the form of regular posts, but more often than not they languish and get buried deeper in the pile. The end result is that I have to go back and do a bit of shoveling. Today’s item is How To Get Respect From Our Students.
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog brain bump I present: From My Dad.
Found in my electronic chapbook.
…many aspects of Alice in Wonderland probably drew upon Carroll”s own experiences of seizures. p. 27
From The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer”s Block and the Creative Brain. by Alice W. Flaherty.
Here in the United States we are used to reading stories of illegal immigrants risking and losing their lives to cross our borders for the opportunity to prosper in a free and open society. But freedom and opportunity are relative as is demonstrated by the tragedy of 54 illegal immigrants from Myanmar who died.
From Reuters:
Thailand beefed up its border checks this week after 54 illegal Myanmar migrants died seeking a better life.
But the move will do little to stop economic refugees like Seng.
“We have a bad government. I cannot save anything from the crops I produce because soldiers take most of it away,” Seng, 44, told Reuters in the southern border town of Ranong where the migrants were found suffocated in a container truck. Continue Reading »
I’m constantly tossing interesting websites into what I call my blogpile. Some of them find their way here in the form of regular posts, but more often than not they languish and get buried deeper in the pile. The end result is that I have to go back and do a bit of shoveling. Today’s item is The Magical Power of Focus.
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog brain bump I present: From My Dad.
Found in my electronic chapbook.
…as Teresa Amabile has shown, work driven by intrinsic motives tends to be more creative than that triggered extrinsically. p. 25
From The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer”s Block and the Creative Brain. by Alice W. Flaherty.
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