Gordaen’s Blog

Does anyone know what this is supposed to mean? It’s an advertisement from Newegg, a company that I usually praise, but it does not make any sense to me. This did not strike me as typical Newegg quality, so I looked into it a little more. The Seagate press release has this […]

An old Polaroid
photograph turning yellow;
fingerprints bring death.
Those times long past are fading,
melting away with longing

Stuck in shoe bottoms,
tiny rocks make their escape
into your clean home.
Those living in glass houses
should take shoes off at the door.
I wrote the first part and classmate Julia Teichet wrote the Renga (the last two lines).

Electricity,
the static build-up unseen
until it goes, “Pop!”

I try to not be too critical of English errors, but sometimes it is hard to overlook them. I bought new baking sheets recently and glued to them was a piece of thin cardboard with generic info. Now, I’m sure 90% of people never look at this stuff, but I started to read […]