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"Only Dogs Have Their Day": Son Volt's 'Trace' at 30 » PopMatters
Trace Warner Bros. The careers of Son Volt and Wilco were once so intertwined that it became briefly clichéd to mention one in a discussion of the other. The 30th anniversary of Son Volt‘s Trace serves as a poignant reminder of the impermanence of such narratives, but it is worth remembering why these two very different bands were once regularly discussed as a matched pair.
Old 97's' 'American Primitive' Confronts the Here and Now
On their previous album, Twelfth, Old 97’s reckoned with their nearly 30 years of debauchery and drinking through the clear-eyed estimation of lead singer Rhett Miller‘s recent sobriety. There were no clean breaks—”This House Got Ghosts” compares life in recovery to living in a haunted house—but the record avoided overt nostalgia and reflexive judgment, offering thanks for the inexplicable endurance of what Old 97’s have made of those years.
Front Row of the Melt Show
Tony and I looked on as the minister, in a pair of summery swim trunks, laid his hands on the top of Isaac’s head and lowered him into the hotel’s Jacuzzi. In the name of the father, the son, and the Holy Ghost, Isaac emerged with his white T-shirt clinging to reborn skin, his long curls of black hair matted against a reborn forehead, chlorine stinging reborn eyes. He blinked away his sins and looked up eager and proud, not at me, not at Tony, but at his new friends — Matthew, Mark, and John.
Daniel Couch | The Smart Set
Author: Daniel Couch Daniel Couch is a professor of English literature and composition at Chemeketa Community College in Salem, Oregon. He is a co-author of a book on Bob Mould’s 1989 solo debut, Workbook , for Bloomsbury’s 33 ⅓ series and the editor of Your Guide to College Writing . His writing has appeared in Tape Op Magazine, Portland Monthly , and elsewhere. He can be found online at noicegoice.com and @CouchProfessor on Twitter. §
The Word 'Flow' Has to Go
One of the most common metaphors students rely on in my composition classroom is that of “flow.” In the first peer reviews they write for each other, many will include some variation of, “Your paper flows really well,” or “You need to work on your flow.” It is seemingly the only metaphor at their command when talking about organization or readability.
The Word "Flow" Has to Go
George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s 1980 book Metaphors We Live By famously catalogued the way metaphors influence the way we think, speak, and act. Some metaphors are so pervasive we no longer think about them as such. Time is money: We spend time, waste time, and save time. Argument is war: We lose and win arguments, attack and defend points. Love is a many metaphored thing: a physical force, a madness, and a journey, or as Rhett Miller of the band Old 97’s tells us in one song, “Love is a marathon.
GAIL: An interactive webserver for inference and dynamic visualization of gene-gene associations based on gene ontology guided mining of biomedical literature
Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Daniel Couch, Zhenning Yu, Jin Hyun Nam, Carter Allen, Paula S. Ramos, Willian A. da Silveira, Kelly J. Hunt, Edward S. Hazard, Gary Hardiman, Andrew Lawson, Dongjun Chung Daniel Couch, Zhenning Yu, Jin Hyun Nam, Carter Allen, Paula S. Ramos, Willian A. da Silveira, Kelly J. Hunt, Edward S.
Why Is Couch Street Couch Street?
When Portland, Albina, and East Portland merged in 1891, the three municipalities had a dozen First, A, and B Streets, plus nine Cedar Streets between them, among other duplicates. Portland’s mayor tasked city council with the Great Renaming, a call to impose order and honor figures from the city’s short history. For Portland’s C Street, there was a clear frontrunner. Capt.
Me Talk Portland One Day: How to Sound Like a Local
Willamette (will-AM-it): Despite the addition of the -ette, it’s not actually French. Sauvie (SOH-vee): Sauvie Island was named for Laurent Sauvé, a French-Canadian dairy farmer. So it is actually French—and it’s not Sauvie’s. Couch (COOCH): Capt. John Heard Couch’s great-great-great-great-grandfather moved to the US from Cornwall, a onetime kingdom in southwestern England. The Cornish pronunciation of his name moved with him.
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