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About JMN

I live in Texas and devote much of my time to easel painting on an amateur basis. I stream a lot of music, mostly jazz, throughout the day. I like to read and memorize poetry.

This Is Stag Country

Posted on April 20, 2018 by JMN

Spunk McGruder was Athletic Director when Don Bob Rooke quarterbacked us to Bi-District. The Stags had the Fearsome Foursome on the line: Chance Purvis, Boog Jeeters, Colt McGruder, and Skeeter Muncie. Not one of those boys went on to play … Continue reading →

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Social Math — UK

Posted on April 20, 2018 by JMN

Giles and Trevor depart the suite of rooms they share in University College at 4:03 p.m. destined for their 5-o’clock rendezvous for high tea with Felicity and Nigella 30 kilometres thence. Giles’s vintage Morgan will average 44.2 kilometres per hour … Continue reading →

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Written in the 70s — Sontag: When suffering

Posted on April 18, 2018 by JMN

Sontag: “When suffering and pleasure are experienced vicariously, people can afford to be intense.” [Porno] Excessive susceptibility to the visual; is this the most “intellectual” of the senses? Ortega: “La dirección en que el ver va diferenciándose del palpar consiste … Continue reading →

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Written in the 70s — We’ll have sex

Posted on April 18, 2018 by JMN

… We’ll have sex if you love me. Or: We’ve had sex; how can you not love me? Or: We love each other; let’s marry so we can close the deal in bed. Or: My self-respect is so down; I … Continue reading →

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Written in the 70s — Abstraction

Posted on April 18, 2018 by JMN

Abstraction: flight from interpretation: return the sensual to art (music as well). The person who violently and persistently jars his senses with drugs, sex, food, is the opposite of voluptuous; he is frigid. The capacity for sensuality is in inverse … Continue reading →

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“Man Speaking”

Posted on April 18, 2018 by JMN

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“Whoosh… Boom”

Posted on April 18, 2018 by JMN

“We went and executed that against real targets with real missiles, and quite simply, we won. So from a practice standpoint, they saw it. So there’s a level of, in their hearts, it’s no longer, hey, trust us, this will … Continue reading →

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From Memory

Posted on April 17, 2018 by JMN

“September 1, 1939,” poem by W. H. Auden, https://www.poets.org This is the longest poem I’ve memorized so far. It has nine stanzas, each of which has eleven lines. There’s a regular rhyme scheme. I detect a three-beat cadence. I read … Continue reading →

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The Carper

Posted on April 17, 2018 by JMN

“Eldest Trump sons jet to Dubai for lavish wedding” (CNN, 4-13-18). The plural “sons” is off. “Eldest” is superlative — there can only be one. “Older Trump sons…” would have been better to distinguish the grown two from their half-sibling … Continue reading →

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This Is Stag Country

Posted on April 17, 2018 by JMN

Mallory and Chess Peavy had their twins, Heather and Feather, when Chess was a senior and Mallory was a sophomore. Jester and Kincaid wanted Chess to get an Associate’s in Kinesiology from Blane so he could coach at the District, … Continue reading →

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