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BASEBALL CARDS, WALTER BENJAMIN, FOIL BALL [by Matthew Yeager]
PART ONE: In his time, my dad did a lot of wheeling and dealing. He wheeled and dealt all sorts of things; baseball cards and baseball memorabilia, art prints in the Audubon tradition of…
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BRIEFLY ON HEANEY [by Matthew Yeager]
I attempted to post this as a reply to a Heaney ref. I made in the last post. I typed a Heaney quip off the type of my head, and I misquoted. I believe…
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Why did the…
pair of mawkish sticks burst into tears? Because they were two tinder… And the dollar bill? Because it was, too, tender.
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INTRODUCTION, CHAD JOHNSON, McLUHAN, SPORTS, TECHNOLOGY [by Matthew Yeager]
First of all, a big hello to everyone reading, to those that I know personally and to those that I don’t know personally, to those that have been frustrated by my tendency to go…
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My Pun Project
From time to time an idea, like a thorn from a pyracantha shurb, works its spinous barb underneath my skin. And much like the ensuing allergic reaction to the fireweed, the consequence of the idea burrowing…
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Matthew Yeager, Guest Blogger May 31-June 6
This week we welcome Matthew Yeager as our guest blogger. Matthew is making the film-festival rounds with A Big Ball of Foil in a Small New York Apartment, a short film based on his…