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POETS Day! “Sunset” by e.e. cummings
It’s useful to consider how and why the innovators did as they did.
Dec 5
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Ben Sears
How did Pete Golding pull that off?
How did a pretty-to-damn-good assistant with no head coaching experience just become the permanent head coach of an SEC standout?
Dec 5
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Ben Sears
November 2025
POETS Day! Charles Mackay of Extraordinary Popular Delusions Fame
Charles Mackay's poems are very passable replications of poetry, and he has a marvelous talent for following example. He’s a good baker.
Nov 21
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Ben Sears
Spicy Pineapple Collard Greens and The Great Vowel Shift
My home version of a tonier restaurant's Spicy Pineapple Collard Greens. It seems off the wall, and it is, but it's very good.
Nov 19
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Ben Sears
POETS Day! “The Waste Land” Lees
The poem is dedicated to Ezra Pound with line “il miglior fabbro”: “the better craftsman.” That’s fawning. But...
Nov 14
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Ben Sears
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Mac & Cheese That’s Only Comparatively Time Consuming to Make
Spend some time doing things the way people had to do way back in Eisenhower days.
Nov 11
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Ben Sears
POETS Day! Ernest Dowson
He was more of a carouser than ballroom type, but did a little time at Oxford when students were gentlemen expected to be up on proper tie knots, Latin…
Nov 7
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Ben Sears
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Sweeter-Than-Intended-by-the-Dutch Brussels Sprouts
They could have had fries.
Nov 4
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Ben Sears
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October 2025
POETS Day! Ovid and the Rape of Europa
It’s hardly shocking material, certainly less graphic than any given episode of Law & Order SVU.
Oct 31
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Ben Sears
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Pork Chops alla Milanese
The Italians have cotoletta alla Milanese and the Austrians have Wiener schnitzel. It's fun to watch them fight.
Oct 27
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Ben Sears
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POETS Day! Edwin Muir’s “The Horses”
Eliot writes that Muir was not concerned with technique, “He was first and formost deeply concerned with what he had to say.”
Oct 24
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Ben Sears
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Questioning RFK’s Circumcision Comments
RFK Jr Links Circumcision, Tylenol, and Autism and what an incurious lot we’ve become.
Oct 22
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Ben Sears
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