English 271 (course title: How Does This Sound?): Stacy Blair: Loyola U.: Summer '08 (week five: Ultramodern Metaphor): Opera Bufa (Adam Fieled)

As the book says: To Courtney...

Critical Nexus Hinges

The site Web Citation .org makes possible what I call critical nexus hinges; series of web-pages, connected in the interstitial way customary on the site, which form a way/manner for theory to evolve from critical literary practice (praxis). These two As/Is pages, now preserved on Web Cite, Notes: Cheltenham Elegies and When You Bit... sonnets, and Notes: More on When You Bit..., hinge the original critical texts, which span 2014 to 2017, to the two new Otoliths pages from '17, now preserved on Web Cite. This has the effect of making the critical task of text consolidation both simpler and smoother than what we tend to see online. It also lends a graceful sense of the aesthetic to critical tasks which might otherwise seem dry.

A festive "cha ching" for October

A hinge in Autumn, as festive "cha ching."

Divine Wisdom at St. Matthew Church...

More Butler Pike ambiance...

Halloween on Butler Pike...

Adam Fieled @ 7825 Mill Road, Elkins Park, Pa, fall 1979

Here I am, ready for action. 

& Hallowell...

I tried to capture here how 300 Four Falls looks from 4th & Hallowell. Got some of it. There are other angles to 300 Four Falls and where to photograph it from that are worth exploring during seasonable months.

View down Harry Street...

I snapped this shot on one of my walks a few months ago. This view down Harry Street, which runs precisely parallel to Fayette Street in Conshohocken, is one of the more luminous ones I've seen in the area.

GO Look...

I spent several months last year playing the Asian board-game GO online during my down-time. In the end, I decided I didn't like it; not cerebral enough (as I thought it might be), too much about "my guns versus your guns." The Asian muse I played against, Cosumi, was merciless, ruthless, and boorish to boot. Yet, the aesthetic aspect of the game still pleases me. It's a great-looking game. I may invest in a serious board and stones if I get a chance.

Conshohocken in Autumn

My daily walk up and down Fayette Street is especially pleasant in September and October. This particular vista, looking up Fayette Street from the Fayette Street Bridge, also includes, if you about-face, a nice view of the 300 Four Falls building sitting on the edge of the Schuylkill.

West Nittany Avenue, State College

This house, on West Nittany Avenue in State College, is similar to the one in which I had a second floor sublet in 1998; as appears here, in the new Otoliths.

Hallowell Street, Four Falls

I've been all over the Net looking for a picture of how 300 Four Falls (shown here, over the Schuylkill) looks from the top of Hallowell Street (Hallowell and, I think, 4th Ave)- no dice. If you can make it to Hallowell & 4th to see the sight, it is not to be believed, especially in enchanting September.