I predict...
May. 24th, 2005 01:57 pmthat R. will shave his awfully cute beard tonight. Tomorrow's forecast is 85 (it's just been in the 60s lately), and grass pollen counts are rising too. Perhaps it will reappear in the fall.
I think I'm too sick to go to John Daniel's bookreading tonight, unfortunately. I'll still see him at ASLE, but this would have been fun. Rogue River Journal: A Winter Alone was written, as one can gather, during a "backcountry writing residency" in a cabin in southwestern Oregon. He combines nature writing, meditations on solitude, and an attempt to understand the life of his father, a prominent labor leader. Isn't the cover pretty?

Meanwhile, the h-rhetor list is having an interesting discussion on the rhetoric of corporate personhood.
Hmm, while I'm busy downloading images from Eugene Weekly, here's this week's cover story on a renaissance for downtown Eugene that could come from us (Oregon Research Institute) moving into a new building there in a few years (though the groundbreaking still hasn't happened). And here's an artist's rendition of the building, though I don't think we'd have quite that color scheme:

I think I'm too sick to go to John Daniel's bookreading tonight, unfortunately. I'll still see him at ASLE, but this would have been fun. Rogue River Journal: A Winter Alone was written, as one can gather, during a "backcountry writing residency" in a cabin in southwestern Oregon. He combines nature writing, meditations on solitude, and an attempt to understand the life of his father, a prominent labor leader. Isn't the cover pretty?

- Rogue River Journal at amazon.com
- A nice review in the Eugene Weekly
- John Daniel's essay in Open Spaces about the writing residency program
Meanwhile, the h-rhetor list is having an interesting discussion on the rhetoric of corporate personhood.
Hmm, while I'm busy downloading images from Eugene Weekly, here's this week's cover story on a renaissance for downtown Eugene that could come from us (Oregon Research Institute) moving into a new building there in a few years (though the groundbreaking still hasn't happened). And here's an artist's rendition of the building, though I don't think we'd have quite that color scheme:
