The other day I remembered I said I’d be back, after promising you the world–you showed up when I had it almost in the palm of my hand; I blew it…and then I remembered. Sorry, Ani with an “i”. Goodbye.
Author Archives: xander_ashe
Prototypes and Exemplars
Today, ladies and gentleman, boys and girls, we are talking about categories; groups of things and how we think about them. A nice lady named Eleanor Rosch once taught me about categories of things, how we mentally group things and define people, places, and things, nouns, using two concepts: prototypes and exemplars. She also triedContinue reading “Prototypes and Exemplars”
Grandmas march for democracy.
Rallies to continue ‘til election. If you happened by the intersection of X and Y. on X.date, between X.time and Y.time, then you would have seen the Grannies for Democracy make their first appearance in X. About fifteen grandmothers waved signs in support of a wide range of causes and rallied to overwhelmingly positive reviewsContinue reading “Grandmas march for democracy.”
Interrupture
There she was, in nurse’s scrubs, dancing in a dive bar located just miles from the sea, twirling, inebriated, to her friends half-decent karaoke performance, a tattoo of a sword and shield showing on her right shoulder. There was his future wife, a ripe new unadulterated fan of his, but he was nervous and hadContinue reading “Interrupture”
The difficulties of covering divisive news
(names changed and redacted) It is 10:53am Friday morning and the team responsible for publishing the _______ Gazette and ______ Tribune are busy tracking down witnesses to a recent (Aug. XX) local BLM protest and getting the details from police about a robbery just interrupted at the hardware store across the street. This small-town paperContinue reading “The difficulties of covering divisive news”
A description of clothing
“I’ve never been good at describing clothes but he was wearing overalls, blue-jean overalls, probably long-johns under them, I don’t know. Anyway, she was also wearing what I call a cowboy shirt, a long-sleeve button down shirt with pockets that close; pockets with a metal snap instead of buttons you put through a slit, maybeContinue reading “A description of clothing”
Post Script
He resented her slightly, Carlos could admit it, he was jealous of the friend-turned-rival-author who had stretched the premise of a group of good Samaritan citizens misunderstanding orders from a comically inept outer circle of a crime syndicate to “take care of” someone, into a bestseller, and consequent book tour, a stop on which whereContinue reading “Post Script”
Says
Max was too innocent to see, or he had been before it was too late, that he was the monster, he was the embodiment of the problem with society, or his foil was, or both his existence and the existence of the other that he necessitated formed the nexus of the issue and if thatContinue reading “Says”
What’s in a Name
The sound emanating from their guitar was a mix of a harpy screeching through a waterlogged gramophone and a simultaneously soggy and splintered old player piano whose mallets bore all the colors of oxidation from barnacle-teal to little-mermaid-red from playing on rusted piano wire for a century. What was happening to bring out the surrealContinue reading “What’s in a Name”
A Dissertation: Intro
Here is a brief summary of what I observed both in my one published study and the dissertation study I never defended that I will present in chunks here as creative rather than professional writing: People are willing to discuss key group beliefs (like being pro automatic weapon and Republican) with other individuals or breakoutContinue reading “A Dissertation: Intro”
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