Author Archives: zoeticseeker

Well, apparently you have been hiding under a rock… “The Rock” perhaps… and he’s giving you the people’s eyebrow. The aforementioned self-proclaimed “People’s Champ” is thereby not only our defender, our hope, our warrior king… but also possesses an unusual skill with his upper orbital eye hair fringes (a.k.a. his eyebrows.) Is he a heroContinue reading “can you smell what’s cookin’ beneath the people’s eyebrow?”

I blame it on life. Damn life! I am lagging behind in my reading of my favorite magazines — The New Yorker and New York Magazine. As I worked my way through the Feb. 14th issue of New York mag yesterday, I began an article about U.S. soldiers, post-traumatic stress, and the laundry list of medications that ex-GIs areContinue reading “alone together: driving and crowds”

My first request! And since I sleep so little, the theme of night sounds is one of which I could write at length. When all becomes dark, when the world consists of you lying on your bed pondering the ebony cloak of eventide, it is sound itself that intensifies and becomes a symphonic world ofContinue reading “listen to the night”

It is about this time of year that schools have spring vacations and colleges release their students to put on display all that they haven’t acquired over the past semesters in places like Panama City Beach or Cancun. And, of course, summer vacation for both parties is not far off. If you think about societyContinue reading “idle and demoralizing vacations”

It is Sunday which only means one thing! Actually, it means about a million different things to a million different people, but here on Tomorrow’s Theme, it only means one thing! Thank god for only having one thing to deal with! Thank god for themes of the day! Anyway, to get to the point, SundayContinue reading “the softest smell”

According to the Food Channel, one of the Top Ten Food Trends for 2011 is that of men invading the kitchen… and cooking with all the snobbery and possessiveness and self-righteousness once reserved for women in this decidedly female sphere. These “gastrosexuals” or “kitchen bitches” have invaded the domain once both proudly and spitefully reserved for the ‘second sex.’ Cooking their ‘dudeContinue reading “gender-bending hash-slinging headaches”

Valentine’s Day is a day I usually choose to rapidly pass over, reminding myself that ignorance is the true bliss. This past V-Day, though, I was alternately amused and touched (and sometimes just grossed out) by the New York Times proposal to its readers to ‘sum up a relationship in six words.’ Obviously, I was not aloneContinue reading “get happy in six words”

Yes, tomorrow is Earth Day, but I’d rather think about this day proximally and obliquely. I teach this way too, believing there is much to be seen in the circuitous journey that enhances our understanding of the original ‘text.’ And so the pear. Last year, right about this time, I read a short book byContinue reading “pears”

Xylography is the art of woodcut wherein the artist takes a block of wood and carves out the parts of the design that will not be inked. This obviously requires an ability to foresee a thing in reverse. It takes a special kind of person to be able to create an image in its negative state. (ThinkContinue reading “xylography”

People often react badly to the phrase, “I’m sorry.” At least this has been my experience. I think I need to be more specific here. If said as a genuine way to communicate remorse for a misstep or wrong against another person, then it is usually accepted. He yells something in anger at her duringContinue reading “i’m sorry and i’m sorry”