Lawrence Hall, HSG
Moving the Metaphor
“Moving the needle” isn’t moving anymore
As a metaphor it is out of the groove
Although politics are spinning at 78
The needle is quite worn down, and so am I
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The former address, "reactionary drivel," was a P. G. Wodehouse gag that few ever understood to be a mildly self-deprecating joke. Drivel, perhaps, but not reactionary. Neither the Red Caps nor the Reds ever got it.
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Dispatches from the Colonial Office
Lawrence's latest book, Dispatches from the Colonial Office, about teaching in a community college, is available, along with Coffee and a Dead Alligator to Go, Don't Forget Your Shoes and Grapes, Lady with a Dead Turtle, Paleo-Hippies at Work and Play, and The Road to Magdalena, from Amazon.com both as a Kindle and as bits of dead tree.
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- His Check Engine Light is On - weak excuse for a p...
- Meditation and Merriment in Early Autumn - poem
- An All-You-Can-Eat Buffet of Summer Bugs - poem
- The Cosmic Inertia of a Six-Pound Dachshund - shor...
- Boeing, Studebaker, John Deere, and my Tupperware ...
- Smart*ss Watch - poem
- On Reading a Poem by Du Mu - poem
- Hobbit Day (short poem)
- Someday Such Men Will Live in Palaces - poem
- At Rao's Bakery - Coffee, Croissants, Children, an...
- A Road Crew Singing "Red, Red Wine" - poem
- Move the Metaphor; Move the Needle - short poem
- If Mr. Vance Says You Ate Someone's Pet Cat Then O...
- I’m Proud of My Childless Cat Lady Daughter - two ...
- The Terrifying Creepy Chilling Iconic Sniper’s Lai...
- Runes Recently Discovered - poem
- If Li-Po Were my Houseguest - quatrain
- We Don't Understand, But We Hope - poem
- I Had a Flat Tire Along the Silk Road - not-a-Tang...
- Tropes, Dopes, and Culture Worriers - poem
- Thoughts of Home from Behind the Wire - poem
- My Grandfather's Hayfield - poem
- The White Lady of the Well - a senryu
- We Have all Written Poems about September - and, y...
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- For English Pick Up the Anglophone - poem
- Li Po Writes to us from his Mountain - poem
- God in the Hands of Angry Sinners - poem
- For Booger-Dog of Happy Memory - poem
- Cleaning a Metaphorical Rifle - short poem
- Draft Beer, Not Students - poem
- You are not a Banana - poem
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About This Not-Really Reactionary
- Lawrence Hall, HSG
- Y'r 'umble scrivener knows how to milk cows (altho' he long ago swore to own no livestock larger than dachshunds), build fences, clear brush, and cut firewood. After 18 months in Viet-Nam and Cambodia he worked his way through university as an ambulance driver, nurses' aide, and then LVN. BA in History, University of San Diego, 1976; MEd, Stephen F. Austin State University, 1984; MA in English, Stephen F. Austin State University, 2002. He also taught school, but that makes him a class (no pun) enemy just now. He has been rejected by some of the finest publishing houses in America.
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