Comments on: what brings you to a joint like this? http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2008/05/14/what-brings-you-to-a-joint-like-this/ breathless punditry and one-breath poetry with David Giacalone Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:58:52 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Don http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2008/05/14/what-brings-you-to-a-joint-like-this/comment-page-1/#comment-178657 Don Fri, 16 May 2008 17:42:21 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2008/05/14/what-brings-you-to-a-joint-like-th#comment-178657 David: Congrats on the 5th anniversary. I have four main reasons I visit regularly: 1) Haiku 2) Specifically, Daniel Lanoue's Issa translations also brings me here. Eventhough I subscribe to his daily email Issa, I just love to see what you have selected from his archive. 3)Your droll, generally spot-on pov on many a topic. As a librarian, your outrage (and it was outrageous) at the extended closing of the Schenectady library gave me hope ... especially since they now seem to be backing down from their original intent. 4) Your wonderful use of white space. Congrats and though I'd like to wish you 5 more years, whatever direction you go will, I'm sure, be good. best, Don @ Lilliput Review David:

Congrats on the 5th anniversary. I have four main reasons I visit regularly:

1) Haiku

2) Specifically, Daniel Lanoue’s Issa translations also brings me here. Eventhough I subscribe to his daily email Issa, I just love to see what you have selected from his archive.

3)Your droll, generally spot-on pov on many a topic. As a librarian, your outrage (and it was outrageous) at the extended closing of the Schenectady library gave me hope … especially since they now seem to be backing down from their original intent.

4) Your wonderful use of white space.

Congrats and though I’d like to wish you 5 more years, whatever direction you go will, I’m sure, be good.

best,
Don @ Lilliput Review

]]> By: David Giacalone http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2008/05/14/what-brings-you-to-a-joint-like-this/comment-page-1/#comment-178566 David Giacalone Fri, 16 May 2008 02:09:27 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2008/05/14/what-brings-you-to-a-joint-like-th#comment-178566 Many thanks, Ed. My cornucopia is overflowing. Guess you showed 'em you're not a one-hit (baseball) wonder! Many thanks, Ed. My cornucopia is overflowing. Guess you showed ‘em you’re not a one-hit (baseball) wonder!

]]> By: ed markowski http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2008/05/14/what-brings-you-to-a-joint-like-this/comment-page-1/#comment-178563 ed markowski Fri, 16 May 2008 01:31:49 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2008/05/14/what-brings-you-to-a-joint-like-th#comment-178563 happy birthday fka... please accept this gift... gutter ball... on the bowler's table ten empty long necks field goal a cheerleader spins end over end deep winter a young boy stickhandles into a snow squall winter moon the hockey puck on a frozen pond happy birthday fka… please accept
this gift…

gutter ball…
on the bowler’s table
ten empty long necks

field goal
a cheerleader spins
end over end

deep winter
a young boy stickhandles
into a snow squall

winter moon
the hockey puck
on a frozen pond

]]> By: David Giacalone http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2008/05/14/what-brings-you-to-a-joint-like-this/comment-page-1/#comment-178553 David Giacalone Fri, 16 May 2008 00:07:30 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2008/05/14/what-brings-you-to-a-joint-like-th#comment-178553 Many thanks, John, for your good wishes and all the good poems you have contributed to f/k/a over the years. Many thanks, John, for your good wishes and all the good poems you have contributed to f/k/a over the years.

]]> By: John Stevenson http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2008/05/14/what-brings-you-to-a-joint-like-this/comment-page-1/#comment-178539 John Stevenson Thu, 15 May 2008 22:04:00 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2008/05/14/what-brings-you-to-a-joint-like-th#comment-178539 Happy birthday f.k.a.! How the time passes. I look forward to seeing where you go from here. Happy birthday f.k.a.! How the time passes. I look forward to seeing where you go from here.

]]> By: David Giacalone http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2008/05/14/what-brings-you-to-a-joint-like-this/comment-page-1/#comment-178374 David Giacalone Thu, 15 May 2008 03:14:04 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2008/05/14/what-brings-you-to-a-joint-like-th#comment-178374 Hi, Anne. "I never wrote those words" can leave me scratching my head, too. I guess you must be a raging SEO genius to attract SEVs without even writing the queried phrase. [Don't get me started on those spam-happy, phony-commenting SEO creeps.] Actually, when I have an "I never wrote that""mystery, it often means that one of the queried words appeared in one posting and another somewhere else down a page that collects posts into months or categories, or possibly the word is in a Comment. Search-query monitoring can definitely be addictive. Hi, Anne. “I never wrote those words” can leave me scratching my head, too. I guess you must be a raging SEO genius to attract SEVs without even writing the queried phrase. [Don't get me started on those spam-happy, phony-commenting SEO creeps.]

Actually, when I have an “I never wrote that”"mystery, it often means that one of the queried words appeared in one posting and another somewhere else down a page that collects posts into months or categories, or possibly the word is in a Comment.

Search-query monitoring can definitely be addictive.

]]> By: Anne http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2008/05/14/what-brings-you-to-a-joint-like-this/comment-page-1/#comment-178371 Anne Thu, 15 May 2008 02:37:23 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2008/05/14/what-brings-you-to-a-joint-like-th#comment-178371 Wow, that's quite an analysis! But I love reading our search queries, too. Aside from the number of hits and number of downloaded pages, it's the only stat I'm addicted to (and it's by far the most interesting). Some are obvious, some are funny but understandable, and a few are downright confounding (as in, "I never wrote that word or phrase, don't know what it refers to, and have no idea what is going on in the head of the person who googled it!") These keep me up nights. Wow, that’s quite an analysis!

But I love reading our search queries, too. Aside from the number of hits and number of downloaded pages, it’s the only stat I’m addicted to (and it’s by far the most interesting). Some are obvious, some are funny but understandable, and a few are downright confounding (as in, “I never wrote that word or phrase, don’t know what it refers to, and have no idea what is going on in the head of the person who googled it!”) These keep me up nights.

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