Nathan Tyree: Laura Hird

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I have some poems on-line in the Laura Hird Showcase. Read, discuss, weep, drink.

If that link doesn't work try this:

http://laurahird.com/showcase/nathantyree.html

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Nathan Tyree: last full show

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there is a new poem up on Magazine of the Dead. Enjoy.

Plus, I found something neat on The Daily Kos. Click Here and Scroll down to the post titled "Freakin Amazed"

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Nathan Tyree: No country for old men

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“Aint this a mess sheriff?”
“If it aint it’ll do ‘till a mess gets here”


I admit that I am a fan of Cormac McCarthy. His books Blood Meridian, The Road and All the Pretty Horses are American classics. He ranks, in my mind, with Melville Faulkner and Steinbeck among novelists. His books have won many awards including the National Book Award and The Pulitzer Prize.

I believe that his finest novel is No Country for Old Men. It’s a tale of almost unbearable violence told against a beautiful and earthy backdrop of the Texas-Mexico border and set sometime in the 1980s. I don’t want to write about the details of the plot or the prose, but rather I want to speak of the title.

I’ve been rolling this over in my head and I can’t quite figure it out. I see two possible interpretations of “No country for old men” and can’t figure out which is correct (if either is).

1. (This is) no country for old men.
2. (There is) no country for old men.

If anyone else here has read the book please speak up. Which ?

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Nathan Tyree: Brain Age 2

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Brain Age 2 should have been a great game. Alas, it isn’t. Sarah and I are having a hell of a time playing it due to technical issues. The voice recognition system refuses to admit that she is speaking no matter what she does. The handwriting recognition only understand a small portion of the numbers and letters I write. Sevens are very difficult.

I really think that they should drop the voice and writing recognition and simply gives us a key board. Then I think I’d love this game.

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Nathan Tyree: Open Letter to Whoopie Goldberg

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In some parts of this country lynching black men was long considered ‘sport’. It wasn’t ‘that unusual’. I suppose then that we shouldn’t look down on people who behaved that way. In some countries “female circumcision” (actually a clitorectomy) is common and well accepted. I guess that makes it fine. In some places women can be stoned or beheaded for perceived unfaithfulness to their husbands. Maybe you think that is okay. Personally, I don’t.

Think before you speak Ms Goldberg.

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