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mayor of state college, former editor of the Centre Daily Times ... and so much more. A good man. Wit and calm wisdom. Humility. Thar is n'more to say. Words fail. (And so does the CDT website or else there'd be links. But it's been a heavy day of mourning, and I'm tired.) this'll do, as a start: http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2009/09/05/the_man_who_was_state_co...

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• bloggling
• memory
• war rhetoric

Thank you everyone at the Blogora for the opportunity to guest blog here. Like Joe, I'm feeling some uncertainty about contributing "good ideas," but I'm excited to engage in conversation here!

"As Martin Walser puts it, as 'long as something is, it is not, what it will have been. When something is over, one is not anymore the one to whom it happened... Although the past, when it was the present, did not exist, it now imposes itself, as if it had existed in the way in which it imposes itself now'" (Zehfuss 518).

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"We should write as we dream; we should even try and write, we should all do it for ourselves, it’s very healthy, because it’s the only place where we never lie. At night we don’t lie. Now if we think that our whole lives are built on lying -- they are strange buildings -- we should try and write as our dreams teach us; shamelessly, fearlessly, and by facing what is inside every human being -- sheer violence, disgust, terror, shit, invention, poetry. In our dreams we are criminals; we kill, and we kill with a lot of enjoyment.

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Reading this story about the recovery of a melted hard drive from the space shuttle Columbia made me think of the current state of the rhetorical canon of memory.

Specifially, it reminded me of Greg Ulmer's discussion of memory in Internet Invention. The current version of the Simonides story is the Internet - a redundant system meant to recover things after the disaster. Ulmer reminds us that the Web was designed by the U.S. Department of Defense so that communication channels could survive a nuclear attack.

Do we still teach memory? What happens to this canon "after" the Internet?

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... in memory of Army Maj. Andrew J. Olmsted:

http://andrewolmsted.com/

All Things Considered, January 10, 2008

"Major Andrew Olmsted blogged about his death, long before it happened...."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17997481

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17990676

Andy: May you find yourself -- and those you hold dear --
"in the place where no shadows fall."

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• baseball
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• revolution
• rhetoric and statistics

Welllll, maybe I haven't lost that often.
But I don't think I've had quite so many chances.

Congratudolences, as John Slatin taught me to say, to the Phillies, for their 10,000th franchise loss:

Cardinals Hand Phillies 10,000th Loss

DAN GELSTON
The Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA - It was the kind of game Phillies fans had seen thousands of times before.

Now, make it 10,000 times.

Bad starting pitching, brutal relief and hardly any hitting. Oh, and lots of booing....

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