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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-106445182011-12-14T21:33:21.182-05:00Virtual Grub StreetGilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.comBlogger1541100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-62477886599552526062009-06-17T12:44:00.000-04:002009-06-17T12:44:18.877-04:00The Alberto Cutie Story that the Media is Not Reporting

by Gilbert Wesley PurdyThanks to the Huffington Post for the recent link to my coverage of Alberto Cutie and Ruhama Buni Cutie Canellis. And I wish every happiness to the couple Mr. and Mrs. Cutie!But there is a situation close to the couple that the media is not reporting. Members of the cult church Cresciendo en Gracia (Growing in Grace) have created a site called “Ruhama Canellis” (

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-11280798437612384452008-05-22T17:52:00.001-04:002008-05-22T18:07:41.722-04:00Privacy Policy

For the purposes of this policy document the phrases "Virtual Grub Street family of blogs" and "Virtual Grub Street" refer to the following individual blogs: Virtual Grub Street; Gilbert Wesley Purdy Online Bibliography; Reviews! Resenas! Recensioni!; Virtual Grub Street (2); Eye Online; Indexes and Specialty Pages; and Palm Beaches Review.Routine Information CollectionThe Virtual Grub Street

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-89014154092731285982007-03-08T20:04:00.002-05:002008-05-22T18:26:02.688-04:00Eye Online Breaking Story: Wikipedophillia History Quietly Being Expunged.

On March 4, 2007, Eye Online posted the article Man-Boy Love Advocate Accused of Using Wikipedia to Troll for Interested Parties. Virtual Grub Street has just discovered that, since the article appeared, Wikipedia Administrators have bypassed the entire Wikipedia editing system and have begun deleting/removing a large number of the online encyclopedia's User and Discussion pages containing

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-3996537651002693162007-03-05T20:02:00.001-05:002007-03-05T20:08:24.204-05:00Man-Boy Love Advocate Accused of Using Wikipedia

Virtual Grub Street's most recent Wikipedia article — Man-Boy Love Advocate Accused of Using Wikipedia to Troll for Interested Parties — has just been posted at its Eye Online blog (RSS):Man-Boy Love Advocate Accused of Using Wikipedia to Troll for Interested Parties (March 4, 2007). 'When Rookiee was banned by an admin with the excuse of "pedophile trolling" during the controversy over the

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-64606430631936236332007-02-20T16:20:00.000-05:002007-02-20T16:25:05.560-05:00Most Recent Trialware Information Page

Virtual Grub Street's most recent trialware information page -- for Trlokom's SpyWall -- has just been posted at its Eye Online blog (RSS):

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-29108754223772022962007-02-16T17:02:00.001-05:002007-02-16T17:02:44.140-05:00Most Recent Mirar Toolbar Article

Virtual Grub Street's most recent Mirar Toolbar article -- Mirar Toolbar's New Uninstall Pages -- has just been posted at its Eye Online blog (RSS):Mirar Toolbar's New Uninstall Pages (February 16, 2007). "NetNucleus has clearly tried to upgrade the public face of its Mirar Toolbar uninstallation process while retaining the advertising advantages it has built into the process. The extent of

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-82589928645471897742007-02-07T18:50:00.000-05:002007-02-16T16:22:15.022-05:00Sunbelt Tangles with NetNucleus

Sunbelt Software has received a letter from Rinaldo Cartaya, the Mirar Brand Manager at NetNucleus (the maker of the Mirar Toolbar), dated 14 December 2006, which they have posted in a PDF file here. The letter claims that Sunbelt has "misrepresented" the Mirar Toolbar by referring to it as "Adware". According to Mr. Cartaya, toolbar is a "bona fide search tool". Legal action is threatened if

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1168482695750855032007-01-10T21:30:00.000-05:002007-02-20T17:26:55.088-05:00CleanUp! Information Page

The information in Virtual Grub Street's computer postings is the result of thousands of web searches. It can not, however, possibly be complete. The subject is vast and constantly changing. Moreover, vendor uninstall tools and other freeware removal tools do not necessarily remove all of an infection from your computer. Vendor uninstall tools, for instance, may silently leave cookies or other

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1159657461113903272006-09-30T18:17:00.000-04:002007-03-18T20:31:01.810-04:00Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz Weighs In

Another round of South Florida coverage of the Mark Foley scandal has begun. The fact has not been missed that Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz has issued a press release which is posted on her Congressional site:This goes beyond Rep. Foley, it goes to the values of the Congressional leadership and the fact that when children felt that sexual advances were being made against them by people

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1158176583724953632006-09-13T18:41:00.000-04:002006-09-13T20:22:18.483-04:00A Magical Time

After heavy rainfalls the field here used to flood and become a two acre marshland. For days, or even weeks, flocks of egrets, ibises, cranes and Killdeers (Charadrius vociferus, named for their distinctive call) trolled the waters. Depending upon the time of year, the edges of the marsh (until recently, on the north edge, there was a 5+ acre woodland bounded by thick low brush) might be purled

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1147047016928102022006-05-07T21:40:00.000-04:002007-03-18T20:34:28.728-04:00Cyber Punks, Street Punks and Ring Doves

I decided to go to the corner store, at about 10:30 Friday night, to pick up a couple of items. It's right around the corner, no big thing; I'd hop on the bike and be there and back in no time. As I crossed the field between my rooms and the street I noticed four young guys emerge from the cross street. They had to be thirteen or fourteen years old and seemed to have done their best to dress in

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1145907719278607852006-04-24T15:40:00.000-04:002006-05-01T16:09:00.390-04:00VGS Welcomes the PBS News Hour!

It would appear that the PBS News Hour is doing some research for a Claudia Emerson segment and stopped by the Claudia Emerson Page for an extended look-see:Location: Virginia, Alexandria, United StatesHostname: newshour.org ([IP]***.*.**.*)Entry Page: vgs-wiki-watchdog.blogspot.com/2006/04/is-wikipedia-handing-out-your-browsing.htmlExit Page: vgs-wiki-watchdog.blogspot.com/2006/04/

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1145838535779350022006-04-23T20:07:00.000-04:002007-03-18T20:30:23.057-04:00Wikipedia: a Privacy Disaster Area?

Well, several of the crew over at Wikipedia have made a fine public display of how they are by all appearances in the habit of using visitor IP addresses to search for personal vulnerabilities in persons of whom they do not approve. No sense at all that their fellow Registered Users would rein them in for breaking any Wikipedia rules or that anything out of the ordinary was being done. It's a

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1141499291774667562006-03-04T13:32:00.000-05:002006-04-03T07:27:55.753-04:00VGS's Radio Dial and New Philosophy.

The last year has been quite the experience. I have finally given up on the thought that the Internet is anywhere near the "democratic" place it is made out to be. It is unlikely that I will be posting as much in the future.Still, the VGS blog family briefly had quite a success before its various silent partners reduced or completely withdrew their support. There was every reason to understand

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1132174799243284452005-11-16T15:59:00.000-05:002007-03-18T20:33:24.546-04:00How to Remove Nail.exe.

The following is a detail page of Virtual Grub Street's Adware & Malware Identifier Index:The information in the Adware & Malware Identifier Index is the result of thousands of web searches. It can not, however, possibly be complete. The subject is vast and constantly changing. Moreover, vendor uninstall tools and other removal tools do not necessarily remove all of an infection from your

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1129579522411543252005-10-17T18:03:00.000-04:002007-07-07T01:18:40.033-04:00Elite Toolbar Remover Information Page

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1129250636582422022005-10-17T17:48:00.000-04:002006-10-26T12:52:47.473-04:00American Life in Poetry #29: Debra Nystrom.

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATEMany of you have seen flocks of birds or schools of minnows acting as if they were guided by a common intelligence, turning together, stopping together. Here is a poem by Debra Nystrom that beautifully describes a flight of swallows returning to their nests, acting as if they were of one mind. Notice how she extends the description to comment on the way human

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1128787806132220142005-10-08T13:49:00.000-04:002005-10-10T16:38:02.313-04:00Musings on Computers, Nature and Stuff.

I'm plodding today. Building Virtual Grub Street's family of blogs is oppresive at times. Wrestling with the various computer equipment involved (all of it in pretty marginal condition, to begin with) is regularly disheartening. Between designed obsolescence and poor product design it verges on the miraculous when one manages to get anything done.Of course, without computers an undertaking like

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1128635045562173532005-10-08T11:45:00.000-04:002006-08-27T20:50:47.730-04:00American Life in Poetry #28: Ron Rash.

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATEAlthough this poem by North Carolina native Ron Rash may seem to be just about trout fishing, it is the first of several poems Rash has written about his cousin who died years ago. Indirectly, the poet gives us clues about this loss. By the end, we see that in passing from life to death, the fish's colors dull; so, too, may fade the memories of a cherished life

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1128111890785533862005-09-30T22:41:00.000-04:002006-09-19T20:39:31.910-04:00Observations on Leiocephalus carinatus armouri and Other Stuff

I am not sure whether it is because of the drought of recent years, from which Florida has yet to completely emerge, or human intervention, but the Northern Curly-Tail lizard (Leiocephalus carinatus armouri) just isn't what it used to be. I saw an unusually large specimen, just the other day, and it was half the size of the behemoths of several years ago.The Curly-Tail is an import from the

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1128046046463226472005-09-30T17:56:00.000-04:002006-08-27T20:51:35.990-04:00American Life in Poetry #27: Angela Shaw.

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATEIn this lovely poem by Angela Shaw, who lives in Pennsylvania, we hear a voice of wise counsel: Let the young go, let them do as they will, and admire their grace and beauty as they pass from us into the future.Children in a FieldThey don't wade in so much as they are taken.Deep in the day, in the deep of the field,every current in the grasses whispers hurryhurry,

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1128106086974531402005-09-30T15:32:00.000-04:002005-10-10T17:28:00.706-04:00A Word Association Test.

by Gilbert Wesley PurdyWords Brushed by Music ed. by John T. Irwin.Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.200 pp. $12.95 paper. ISBN 0-8018-8029-7. $27.50hardcover. ISBN 0-8018-8028-9.In 1979, while the poetry world as a whole was marching with ever greater determination towards quote-unquote free verse and one or another variation of anti-poetry, Johns Hopkins University Press

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1127575224137468992005-09-24T23:54:00.000-04:002006-10-26T12:54:12.670-04:00American Life in Poetry #26: Claudia Emerson.

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATEDescriptive poetry depends for its effects in part upon the vividness of details. Here the Virginia poet, Claudia Emerson, describes the type of old building all of us have seen but may not have stopped to look at carefully. And thoughtfully.StableOne rusty horseshoe hangs on a nailabove the door, still losing its luck,and a work-collar swings, an emptyold noose.

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1127582815131327132005-09-24T13:54:00.000-04:002005-09-24T14:02:47.540-04:00From the Mailbag: Joseph Bednarik, June Jordan, W. S. Merwin, Dan Wilcox, Lyn Lifshin.

The following two letters may be of interest. First, Joseph Bednarik, of Copper Canyon Press, sends word of tributes to June Jordan and W. S. Merwin:Dear Friend,Please join us for--and help spread the word about--two extraordinary tributes that will take place in early October:A Tribute to the Work of June JordanThursday, October 6, 7:30 pmWith special guests Adrienne Rich, Yusef Komunyakaa,

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1127576560051990992005-09-24T13:53:00.000-04:002007-09-29T18:43:12.588-04:00Dueling Mythologies.

Return to Book Review Index >>> by Gilbert Wesley Purdy.Extracting Appalachia: Images of the Consolidation Coal Company 1910-1945 by Geoffrey L. Buckley.Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2004. xxiv+216 pp.$46.95 cloth. ISBN 0-8214-1555-7. $22.95 paper. ISBN 0-8214-1556-5.In the process of working toward his doctorate, in Geography, Dr. Geoffrey L. Buckley informs us, it was his “good fortune

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1126926891242660622005-09-16T23:46:00.000-04:002005-09-19T19:57:33.570-04:00Eudamus Proteus and Blogging Insanity.

This morning I saw a Long-Tailed Skipper (Eudamus proteus a.k.a Urbanus proteus) out sampling the verbena again. It was early enough that the plants were still in the shade, being on the south side of the building, and only a single bee was interested itself in sipping. The verbena (verbena horata) beside the main door is a deeper purple than seemed to be common, almost a dark blue. It's the

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1126819027370806182005-09-16T16:56:00.000-04:002008-01-10T17:57:39.622-05:00American Life in Poetry #25: Rodney Torreson.

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATEEmily Dickinson said that poems come at the truth at a slant. Here a birdbath and some overturned chairs on a nursing home lawn suggest the frailties of old age. Masterful poems choose the very best words and put them in the very best places, and Michigan poet Rodney Torreson has deftly chosen "ministers" for his first verb, an active verb that suggests the good

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1126823857976524782005-09-16T16:49:00.000-04:002005-09-17T14:05:46.510-04:00From the Mailbag: 18th Annual Jack Kerouac Festival.

The following forwarded message recently arrived in my mail box from Dan Wilcox's Topica list:From: teresa costa Date: September 13, 2005 9:42:14 AM EDTTo: teresa costa Subject: [poetrybay] lowell celebrates kerouac/check this out:The 18th Annual Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! Festival will occur October 6-9, 2005 in Lowell, Massachusetts. This year the theme is 'Jack's Roots.' The festival will

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1126224930429888402005-09-08T20:20:00.000-04:002005-11-12T14:39:54.643-05:00American Life in Poetry #24: Martin Walls.

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATEIn this poem by New York poet Martin Walls, a common insect is described and made vivid for us through a number of fresh and engaging comparisons. Thus an ordinary insect becomes something remarkable and memorable.Cicadas at the End of SummerWhine as though a pine tree is bowing a broken violin,As though a bandsaw cleaves a thousand thin sheets of titanium;

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1126224610515382252005-09-08T20:19:00.000-04:002005-11-12T14:40:58.346-05:00American Life in Poetry #23: E. G. Burrows.

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATEIn this fine poem about camping by Washington poet E. G. Burrows, vivid memories of the speaker's father, set down one after another, move gracefully toward speculation about how experiences cling to us despite any efforts to put them aside. And then, quite suddenly, the father is gone, forever. But life goes on, the coffee is hot, and the bird that opens the poem

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1125112422932292662005-09-08T17:52:00.000-04:002005-11-12T14:41:41.200-05:00American Life in Poetry #22: Jean L. Connor.

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATEIn this short poem by Vermont writer Jean L. Connor, an older speaker challenges the perception that people her age have lost their vitality and purpose. Connor compares the life of such a person to an egret fishing. Though the bird stands completely still, it has learned how to live in the world, how to sustain itself, and is capable of quick action when the

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1126215628602436442005-09-08T17:48:00.000-04:002008-01-10T16:45:17.281-05:00American Life in Poetry #21: Karin Gottshall.

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATEHow many of us, alone at a grave or coming upon the site of some remembered event, find ourselves speaking to a friend or loved one who has died? In this poem by Karin Gottshall the speaker addresses someone's ashes as she casts them from a bridge. I like the way the ashes take on new life as they merge with the wind.The AshesYou were carried here by handsand now

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1125113472661058712005-08-27T12:21:00.000-04:002005-09-09T21:08:01.833-04:00In the Mailbag: Saltonstall Grants and Moving Comments.

The following information on the Saltonstall Fellowship and Grants for New York State residents has recently been received from Dan Wilcox. Dan manages the Poetry Motel foundation newsletter and can be contacted at dwlcx@topica.com should anyone wish to subscribe to the newsletters. Fresh information arrives as often as several times a day.Dear NYS arts groups,Please help us spread the word about

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1124842308629249832005-08-23T20:11:00.000-04:002006-08-27T20:54:21.490-04:00American Life in Poetry #20: Jane Hirshfield.

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATEIn this fascinating poem by the California poet, Jane Hirshfield, the speaker discovers that through paying attention to an event she has become part of it, has indeed become inseparable from the event and its implications. This is more than an act of empathy. It speaks, in my reading of it, to the perception of an order into which all creatures and events are

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1124842081595219182005-08-23T20:07:00.000-04:002008-01-10T16:04:19.697-05:00American Life in Poetry #19: Shirley Buettner.

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATEAt the beginning of the famous novel, "Remembrance of Things Past," the mere taste of a biscuit started Marcel Proust on a seven-volume remembrance. Here a bulldozer turns up an old doorknob, and look what happens in Shirley Buettner's imagination.DiscoveredWhile clearing the westquarter for more cropland,the Cat quarrieda porcelain doorknoboystered in earth,

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1124841799696847572005-08-23T20:03:00.000-04:002005-11-12T14:44:31.630-05:00American Life in Poetry #18: Dan Gerber.

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATEEvery reader of this column has at one time felt the frightening and paralyzing powerlessness of being a small child, unable to find a way to repair the world. Here the California poet, Dan Gerber, steps into memory to capture such a moment.The Rain Poured DownMy mother weepingin the dark hallway, in the arms of a man,not my father,as I sat at the top of the

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1124841501817900972005-08-23T19:58:00.000-04:002006-12-03T20:34:36.303-05:00American Life in Poetry #17: Wendell Berry.

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATENearly all of us spend too much of our lives thinking about what has happened, or worrying about what's coming next. Very little can be done about the past and worry is a waste of time. Here the Kentucky poet Wendell Berry gives himself over to nature.The Peace of Wild ThingsWhen despair for the world grows in meand I wake in the night at the least soundin fear of

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1121397038576588072005-07-15T20:35:00.000-04:002008-01-11T23:15:27.250-05:00American Life in Poetry #16: Lisel Mueller.

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATEThere are thousands upon thousands of poems about love, many of them using predictable words, predictable rhymes. Ho-hum. But here the Illinois poet Lisel Mueller talks about love in a totally fresh and new way, in terms of table salt.Love Like SaltIt lies in our hands in crystalstoo intricate to decipherIt goes into the skilletwithout being given a second

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1121396735004055562005-07-15T20:33:00.000-04:002006-11-03T14:35:10.386-05:00The Last Letter of John Keats.

To Charles BrownRome, November 30, 1820.My dear Brown -- 'Tis the most difficult thing in the world to me to write a letter. My stomach continues so bad, that I feel it worse on opening any book, -- yet I am much better than I was in quarantine. Then I am afraid to encounter the pro-ing and con-ing of anything interesting to me in England. I have an habitual feeling of my real life having passed

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1120781362187492172005-07-08T22:27:00.000-04:002006-10-26T12:46:26.810-04:00American Life in Poetry #15: Janet McCann.

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATEMany of us are collectors, attaching special meaning to the inanimate objects we acquire. Here, Texas poet Janet McCann gives us insight into the significance of one woman's collection. The abundance and variety of detail suggest the clutter of such a life.The Woman Who Collects Noah's ArksHas them in every room of her house,wall hangings, statues, paintings,

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1120835312284104702005-07-08T22:25:00.000-04:002007-07-07T01:23:14.990-04:00Publishing Notice.

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Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1120873516474153292005-07-08T22:14:00.000-04:002007-07-07T01:27:27.106-04:00To return there where once appeared before...

Return to the Poetry Index >>>by Michelangelo Buonarrotitranslation by Gilbert Wesley PurdyTo return there where once appeared beforeThat immortal form, your earthly keep,Like an angel filled with blushing modestyTo heal each mind, all the world would honor.This alone I desire, and is Love to me itself;Not to penetrate your serene composure:The thing which Love has yet to discompose forHaving

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1120177733001131342005-07-01T22:48:00.000-04:002005-11-12T14:46:18.106-05:00American Life in Poetry #14: Georgiana Cohen.

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATEOften everyday experiences provide poets with inspiration. Here Georgiana Cohen observes a woman looking out her window and compares the woman to the sunset. The woman's "slumped" chin, the fence that separates them, and the "beached" cars set the poem's tone; this is clearly not a celebration of the neighborhood. Yet by turning to clouds, sky, and breath, Cohen

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1120271938570476292005-07-01T22:46:00.000-04:002005-07-02T10:40:20.106-04:00The Revolution Proceeds Apace.

With the announcement by Sandra Day O'Conner, today, that she will retire from the Supreme Court, my most recent article, at The Catalyzer Journal, seems particularly to the point. There promises to be quite the battle over President Bush's upcoming Supreme Court nominee. Much much more lies in the balance than just the issue of abortion law.Those numerous Republicans who have quipped, over the

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1120261688728585842005-07-01T22:03:00.000-04:002007-07-07T01:28:51.273-04:00Het nieuve wereldbeeld: the Magical World of Guy Davenport.

by Gilbert Wesley PurdyCastor and Pollux walking naked, side by side, past Kafka; Emerson, gone blind and lame, seeking health hoeing vegetables at a Protestant yeshiva; Levy-Bruhl and Pastor Leenhardt out for a daily walk while nearby it is decided that boys smell like oranges, girls like lemons. This is the stuff of which proses are made: the proses of Guy Davenport, anyway.Nearly thirty years

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1120169382538102672005-07-01T21:00:00.000-04:002007-07-07T01:30:23.758-04:00The Elegy and the Internet

by Gilbert Wesley Purdy"Congratulations!" wrote a friend. "You won the grand prize for sending the best Christmas card I received this year. Grand prize consists of 3 Flammel texts down-loaded from the Internet's new alchemical library. You better get yourself plugged in brother... these times they are a changin'." I came upon the letter and texts again while searching through some old files.I do

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1119725376322793482005-06-25T14:48:00.000-04:002005-06-29T17:52:43.490-04:00Front Page and the Treasure Coast Review.

I've spent the past couple of weeks putting together the pieces of the new Virtual Grub Street. When fate made a "malware blog" out of what was originally intended to be the "arts&lit blog" VGS, the arts and lit side got lost a bit in the shuffle. The recent additions are designed to give all of the categories of posts that appear in VGS a chance at "belonging".In particular, I've combined and

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1119671433669861052005-06-25T01:32:00.000-04:002005-06-25T02:51:44.823-04:00Writer Gazette Newsletter, June 24, 2005.

- June 24th, 2005 -WRITER GAZETTE WEEKLY UPDATEhttp://www.writergazette.comKrista Barrett, Ownermailto: editor@writergazette.comA Writer's Digest Best Site of 2002, 2003 & 2005!Bringing you the best writer-related resources online; free articles, paying job listings and call for submissions, contests and more -- every Friday!A warm welcome to all my new subscribers and 'welcome back' to my

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1119672713141054952005-06-25T01:31:00.000-04:002005-06-25T01:40:14.836-04:00Hire an Agent, Editor, Ghostwriter, Proofreader, or Web Designer!

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1119580662657163972005-06-25T01:29:00.000-04:002005-11-12T14:47:10.400-05:00American Life in Poetry #13: Kevin Griffith.

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATEBirthdays, especially those which mark the passage of a decade, are occasions not only for celebration, but for reflection. In "Turning Forty," Ohio poet Kevin Griffith conveys a confusion of sentiments. The speaker feels a sense of peace at forty, but recalls a more powerful, more confident time in his life.Turning FortyAt times it's like there is a small

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1119064245407200802005-06-17T23:21:00.000-04:002005-11-12T14:47:49.563-05:00American Life in Poetry #12: Andrei Guruianu.

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATEPerhaps your family passes on the names of loved ones to subsequent generations. This poem by Andrei Guruianu speaks to the loving and humbling nature of sharing another's name.GrandfatherDead before I came into this world, grandfather,I carry your name, yet I've never met you.I hear my name, and knowthat somehow they refer to you.When I scribble those six

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1118708131743769572005-06-15T18:47:00.000-04:002005-09-13T20:17:36.773-04:00Recent "How to Remove" Detail Pages.

The following "How to Remove" detail pages have recently been posted at Virtual Grub Street. How to Remove pages are linked from the Adware & Malware Indentifier Index.How to Remove (Uninstall, Delete, Get Rid of) ConfuSearch;How to Remove (Uninstall, Delete, Get Rid of) EasySearch, HotOffers;How to Remove (Uninstall, Delete, Get Rid of) Ibis Toolbar;How to Remove (Uninstall, Delete, Get Rid of)

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1118790690632499382005-06-15T18:46:00.000-04:002007-01-12T22:52:33.413-05:00HijackThis vs. SearchForFree.

SearchForFree is a relatively new piece of adware/malware. It is a start page hijacker downloaded by icasserv.exe (a.k.a. AdClicker-CM , TROJ_ICASERV.A, and Trojan-Clicker.Win32.Small.fd). The start page is actually hijacked by htmlsync.exe. The infection also uploads bookmarks into the Internet Explorer browser.Because Virtual Grub Street seeks to bring computer users together with freeware (or,

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1118512206001664212005-06-11T13:50:00.000-04:002006-08-27T20:57:21.750-04:00American Life in Poetry #11: David Wagoner.

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATEHere David Wagoner, a distinguished poet living in Washington state, vividly describes a peacock courtship, and though it's a poem about birds, haven't you seen the males of other species, including ours, look every bit as puffed up, and observed the females' hilarious indifference?Peacock DisplayHe approaches her, trailing his whole fortune,Perfectly cocksure,

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1118511416106520382005-06-11T13:38:00.000-04:002005-10-06T19:06:09.893-04:00American Life in Poetry #10: Marge Piercy.

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATEThe poet and novelist Marge Piercy has a gift for writing about nature. In this poem, springtime has a nearly overwhelming and contagious energy, capturing the action-filled drama of spring.More Than EnoughThe first lily of June opens its red mouth.All over the sand road where we walkmultiflora rose climbs trees cascadingwhite or pink blossoms, simple, intensethe

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1118510815344180342005-06-11T13:26:00.000-04:002005-06-13T15:59:29.323-04:00In the Mailbag: Zack Rogow Replaces Shevi Berlinger.

The following notice has been floating around in the mailbag for a few days and seems worth passing along to those interested in Virtual Grub Street's literary side.Dear Friends:I am pleased to announce that Zack Rogow is the new editor and artisticdirector of TWO LINES.Zack is taking over for our previous managing editor, Shevi Berlinger, whois returning to her native New York to begin her

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1117850206277056572005-06-03T22:09:00.000-04:002006-08-27T20:59:13.096-04:00American Life in Poetry #9: James Doyle.

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATEIn eighteen lines--one long sentence--James Doyle evokes two settings: an actual parade and a remembered one. By dissolving time and contrasting the scenes, the poet helps us recognize the power of memory and the subtle ways it can move us.The City's Oldest Known Survivor of the Great Warmarches in uniform down the traffic stripeat the center of the street, counts

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1117250499640913912005-05-27T23:22:00.000-04:002006-08-27T21:02:43.600-04:00American Life in Poetry #8: Karma Larsen.

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATEThousands, perhaps tens of thousands of poems have been written to express the grief of losing a parent. Many of the most telling of these attach the sense of loss to some object, some personal thing left behind, as in this elegy to her mother by a Nebraskan, Karma Larsen:MoonflowersMilly Sorensen, January 16, 1922 - February 19, 2004It was the moonflowers that

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1117066534877913482005-05-27T00:31:00.000-04:002007-07-07T01:31:40.344-04:00More on Variant ADW_ELITEBAR.D.

A March 2005 forum thread at Midtown Computer Systems Enterprise provides more detail on ADW_ELITEBAR.D . It's a bit garbled, though: intertwined with discussions about how malware gets installed on computers and about the relative merits of Firefox compared to Internet Explorer. But some things are clarified in the course of "bu2's" (the plaintiff's) attempts to remove this resistant variant of

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1116988304076762312005-05-25T14:48:00.000-04:002006-11-29T07:02:25.436-05:00Find-It Web Search has Been Shut Down.

The malware sites http://find-it.web-search.la/ and http://www.lycos.la/ have recently been shutdown. The following message appears on the sites:The domain web-search.la [lycos.la] has been terminated for abuse.If you received an email from a bank, eBay, or PayPal directing you to visit this site to update your account details, please click hereThe site was also used to originate phishing e-mails

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1116890463226597452005-05-23T20:06:00.000-04:002007-07-07T01:32:58.147-04:00The Eye of the Beholder.

Return to Book Review Index >>>by Gilbert Wesley Purdy.eye: poems and retina printsby Elizabeth Goldring.Kansas City: BkMk Press, 2002.ISBN 1-886157-37-5. $15.95Note: The links in this essay/review are designed to provide a slideshow to accompany the text.Elizabeth Goldring - the author of eye: poems and retina prints -- apparently began to lose her sight in the early 1980s. She is suffering from

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1116881507047443822005-05-23T18:12:00.000-04:002005-07-02T11:04:27.256-04:00More from the Mailbag: David Eisenman and Terry Walton.

David Eisenman, Director of The Fred S. Bailey Scholarship Fund, and somehow member of The Finial Press, saw VGS's Guy Davenport's Memorial Service Was Held This Morning and posted a comment part of which I import to the "From the Mailbag" feature:Mr. Purdy-- The memorial service came off beautifully. Perfect weather -- 70 degrees and a breeze. For 90 minutes, people famous and obscure spoke of

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1116811447079311552005-05-22T23:26:00.000-04:002006-04-23T15:17:44.353-04:00Diabolical New EliteBar Variant Strikes the Web!!!!

Giancarlo Calo, of SimplyTech.it, freeware Baron of the Internet, by virtue of his EliteBar Removal Tool, reports that a new malware variant has appeared on the net that Trend Micro has designated ADW_ELITEBAR.D. The first contacts with the new variant are described in an April 1 through 19 May, 2005, thread at Simply Tech's EliteBar forum. In the words of Calo, in the original April 1, 2005,

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1116807016022341222005-05-22T20:10:00.000-04:002005-09-13T20:21:39.170-04:00"How to Remove" Detail Pages.

The following "How to Remove" detail pages have recently been posted at Virtual Grub Street. How to Remove pages are linked from the Adware & Malware Indentifier Index.How to Remove (Uninstall, Delete, Get Rid of) CashToolBar;How to Remove (Uninstall, Delete, Get Rid of) FreshBar;How to Remove (Uninstall, Delete, Get Rid of) GlobalWebSearch/ISearch;How to Remove (Uninstall, Delete, Get Rid of)

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1116599038986296612005-05-20T14:32:00.000-04:002007-01-12T22:58:58.506-05:00EliteBar Removal Tool Updates to 1.3.0!!!!!

or How to Remove SearchMiracle/EliteBar (Alt. 1, Rev. 2)Giancarlo Calo, over at SimplyTech.it, is staying aggressive with his freeware EliteBar Removal Tool. Among the infections it claims to remove "every trace" of are the following. The items highlighted in red are linked to Virtual Grub Streets's "How to Remove/Detailed Information" pages:EliteBar; EliteToolbar; EliteSidebar; BargainBuddy;

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1116611434708011862005-05-20T13:55:00.000-04:002005-10-06T19:01:32.156-04:00American Life in Poetry #7: Leonard Nathan.

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATELeonard Nathan is a master of short poems in which two or three figures are placed on what can be seen to be a stage, as in a drama. Here, as in other poems like it, the speaker's sentences are rich with implications. This is the title work from Nathan's book from Orchises Press (1999):The Potato EatersSometimes, the naked taste of potatoreminds me of being

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1116091657942593282005-05-18T19:58:00.000-04:002005-07-09T13:47:44.813-04:00Key File Index

The following is an in-progress index of key files. The files are designated "key" files as a result of issues discovered during various computer repairs and/or queries received at Virtual Grub Street and/or issues noted during extensive Internet research. It will be regularly updated with new information as it comes available. Revision dates will be listed in parenthesis next to the revised/

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1116276404749134942005-05-16T17:17:00.000-04:002005-05-23T16:13:20.593-04:00Warning Bouy: soron.info

Warning bouy for sites: http://******.soron.info/I am particularly pleased with my the "Alert" feature of my Google e-mail box. Unfortunately, it brought me to the following site in response to one of my Alerts. This, then, may qualify as a double warning bouy.http://gas-scooteroxgxda.soron.info/Scan type: Auto-Protect ScanEvent: Threat Found! Threat: Bloodhound.Exploit.6 File: C:\Documents and

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1116040181912912512005-05-13T23:41:00.000-04:002005-10-06T19:00:03.920-04:00American Life in Poetry #6: Barton Sutter.

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATERhyme has a way of lightening the spirit of a poem, and in this instance, the plural, spirits, is the appropriate word choice. Lots of readers can relate to "Sober Song," which originally appeared in North Dakota Quarterly. Barton Sutter is a Minnesota poet, essayist, and fiction writer who has won awards in all three genres.Sober SongFarewell to the starlight in

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1115048558225862912005-05-09T16:51:00.000-04:002006-11-28T17:53:55.443-05:00Malware Identifier Index

This page is in the process of being transformed into a special targetted adware/malware index. It is not presently being updated. The new Adware & Malware Identifier Index is located >>> Here.The following is an in-progress index of some of the more common malware toolbars/browser helper objects, and associated files, at large on the Internet. It links, when possible, to detail pages including

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1115498616768169642005-05-07T20:02:00.000-04:002005-07-02T11:00:20.526-04:00Guy Davenport's Memorial Service Was Held This Morning.

Presumably, a memorial service was held this morning, as planned, from 10 AM to noon, at the University of Kentucky Arboretum, for Guy Davenport.One day, during Upstate New York's delightful Indian summer, in 1992, while I was looking through the stacks at Dan Wedge's Dove and Hudson Books, in Albany, Dan called me over in order to point out a row of books on a shelf near the cash register. They

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1115435010742184402005-05-06T23:16:00.000-04:002008-01-10T16:40:28.268-05:00American Life in Poetry #5: David Baker.

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATEThough many of us were taught that poems have hidden meanings that must be discovered and pried out like the meat from walnuts, a poem is not a puzzle, but an experience. Here David Baker makes a gift to us through his deft description of an ordinary scene. Reading, we accept the experience of a poem and make it a part of our lives, just as we would take in the

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1115253472757957852005-05-04T20:37:00.000-04:002005-05-06T23:36:25.370-04:00Warning Bouy: http://aflashcounter.com/

Warning Bouy for site: http://aflashcounter.com/Symantec Warning:Scan type: Auto-Protect Scan Event: Threat Found! Threat: Trojan. Byte Verify [ByteVerify] File: C:\Documents and Settings\LL303001\.jpi_cache\jar\1.0\count.jar-6ea4bd45-3954cdb1.zipLocation: C:\Documents and Settings\LL303001\.jpi_cache\jar\1.0Computer: CLL3030001User: LL303001Action taken: Delete succeeded : Access denied Date

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1114746352854747562005-04-29T23:55:00.000-04:002006-08-27T21:07:35.813-04:00American Life in Poetry #4: Ruth Stone.

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATENone of us can fix the past. Mistakes we've made can burden us for many years, delivering their pain to the present as if they had happened just yesterday. In the following poem we join with Ruth Stone in revisiting a hurried decision, and we empathize with the intense regret of being unable to take that decision back, or any other decision, for that

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1114041205683740762005-04-27T22:49:00.000-04:002007-02-07T20:55:30.512-05:00Is Google Associated with a SearchMiracle Knock-Off?

Related Story: How to Remove Mirar Toolbar "It is suggestible to follow up a removal with one or more adware scans and/or to do an inspection using a HijackThis log."The Internet is changing the world in more ways than immediately meet the eye. The world has become a vastly more complex place as a result of it. What may seem wonderfully simple -- starting a blog, for example, or adding

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1114203349063304772005-04-23T00:23:00.000-04:002007-01-12T22:54:34.860-05:00HijackThis vs. the Elitebar Removal Tool

The following HijackThis thread, from Web User Forums, highlights a number of key points about the modus operandi of the SearchMiracle/EliteBar downloader. It also highlights the comparative merits of SimplyTech's EliteBar Removal Tool.The user's opening comments are typical:I've just started getting IE pop-up windows appearing every so often. They appear regardless of whether I'm actually using

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1114143503548630632005-04-22T00:30:00.000-04:002006-08-27T21:00:35.693-04:00American Life in Poetry #3: Marnie Walsh.

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATEA poem need not go on at great length to accomplish the work of conveying something meaningful to its readers. In the following poem by the late Marnie Walsh, just a few words, written as if they'd been recorded in exactly the manner in which they'd been spoken, tell us not only about the missing woman in the red high heels, but a little something about the

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1114044597367416862005-04-20T20:49:00.000-04:002005-04-20T20:49:57.366-04:00Computer Tips and How To's

The following new link to Obiter Dicta has recently been posted: Computer's Tip's and How To's (in the sidebar). CTHT is a new blog with a single post as this is being written. That post is chock-a-block full of helpful information and downloads, however, and I, for one, intend to stop by to check out its progress on a regular basis.A recent link has also been posted at a Smart Computing message

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1113864156932660612005-04-18T19:10:00.000-04:002007-01-12T22:57:45.303-05:00EliteBar Removal Tool Alert: Update V.1.2.2.!!!

or How to Remove SearchMiracle/EliteBar (Alt. 1, Rev. 1)The thousands of people who are still flocking to the O.D. article How to Remove SearchMiracle/ EliteBar (also known as ETBRUN), and the scores of links to the various O.D. articles on SearchMiracle/EliteBar and related adware/spyware, make it clear that Giancarlo Calo's freeware EliteBar Removal Tool is still the clear means of choice for

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1113519766574886202005-04-15T14:03:00.000-04:002005-10-06T18:44:00.246-04:00American Life in Poetry #2: Jonathan Greene

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATEMany of us have felt helpless when we've tried to assist friends who are dealing with the deaths of loved ones. Here the Kentucky poet and publisher, Jonathan Greene, conveys that feeling of inadequacy in a single sentence. The brevity of the poem reflects the measured and halting speech of people attempting to offer words of condolence:At the GraveAs Death

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1113437560151576992005-04-13T20:26:00.000-04:002005-04-13T20:28:44.800-04:00One Woman in Her Time.

The following review has just appeared in the online journal Eclectica:***One Woman in Her Time: Michelle Cameron's Inthe Shadow of the GlobeIn the Shadow of the GlobeMichelle CameronLit Pot Press (2003) 204 pagesISBN 0-9743919-2-1Review by Gilbert Wesley PurdyIn one of his best known passages, Shakespeare reminds us, in the character of Jacques, from the play As You Like It, that:All the world's

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1113436029277145892005-04-13T20:05:00.000-04:002005-04-13T20:07:52.436-04:00Recent Link to OD

The following new link to Obiter Dicta has recently been posted: The New Game Board.

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1112845550309939752005-04-11T23:46:00.000-04:002007-01-12T23:02:13.176-05:00HijackThis vs. SearchMiracle/EliteBar

HijackThis is a very popular tool used to glean detailed information on spyware, adware and trojans that may have invaded a computer. As described on the Tom Coyote HijackThis page, When launched, it creates a log of "certain key areas of the Registry and Hard Drive and lists their contents. These are areas which are used by both legitimate programmers and hijackers. It's up to you to decide what

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1113014179974117462005-04-08T23:21:00.000-04:002005-10-06T18:42:23.320-04:00American Life in Poetry #1: David Allan Evans.

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATEWe all know that the manner in which people behave toward one another can tell us a lot about their private lives. In this amusing poem by David Allan Evans, Poet Laureate of South Dakota, we learn something about a marriage by being shown a couple as they take on an ordinary household task.NeighborsThey live alonetogether,she with her wide hindand bird face,he

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1113015914393662562005-04-08T23:07:00.000-04:002005-05-17T19:02:10.020-04:00Ted Kooser and the American Life in Poetry column

>Obiter Dicta will be posting the weekly American Life in Poetry column, by Ted Kooser, courtesy of The Poetry Foundation and the Library of Congress. The first column will follow this acknowledgment.The Poetry Foundation has formed a partnership with the Library of Congress to support the American Life in Poetry project, an initiative of Ted Kooser, the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1112649577226487032005-04-04T19:06:00.000-04:002005-04-05T12:50:35.520-04:00John Ashbery and Off-the-Rack Japanese Wives.

>The following New York Sun piece, about John Ashbery, a poet who types his poems on "a large black office-model manual Royal typewriter made in 1949", and whose most recent book of poems had an astonishing first press run of 9,000 copies, qualifies as commentary on more levels than intended. Note, for one, the advertisement for "Japanese Women to Share Your Life With" that heads the piece.Oh

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1112655872801553182005-04-04T19:05:00.000-04:002005-10-06T18:18:13.303-04:00The Japan Times on Destina Japan.

This fascinating little quote from Nick Naruse, Chairman and CEO of Destina Japan, in an article that appeared, on March 7th, 2005, in the Japan Times:"Japanese women are very popular among the British and Americans for their exotic features, high education level, as well as for being reserved and humble. They also tend to have a well-balanced personality as a result of being brought up properly,

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1112420017580799112005-04-02T00:38:00.000-05:002005-04-02T00:39:16.793-05:00New Internet Bibliography Links

The following new links have been posted at the Gilbert Wesley Purdy Internet Bibliography:Search Engines: A9 and Gigablast.Free Software Downloads: HijackThis, LavaSoft, Listsoft and SpyBot.Free Virus Scans: Zone Labs.The free software downloads are now also listed on the Obiter Dicta sidebar.

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1112387703163361172005-04-01T15:50:00.000-05:002005-04-02T00:24:08.290-05:00Norm Schall at NSComputers1

Thanks to Norm Schall, at NSComputers1 for linking to O.D. from his "Links" page. Norm has recently begun a computer business in the West Palm Beach, Florida, area and has achieved a considerable success in a short time. The "Protection Downloads" page of his site lists a number of free and trial-basis software downloads.

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1120927650690615872005-04-01T00:20:00.000-05:002007-02-25T20:23:37.455-05:00How to Remove KeenValue.

The following is a detail page of Virtual Grub Street's Adware & Malware Indentifier Index:The information in the Adware & Malware Indentifier Index is the result of thousands of web searches. It can not, however, possibly be complete. The subject is vast and constantly changing. Moreover, vendor uninstall tools and other removal tools do not necessarily remove all of an infection from your

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1120610495266022812005-04-01T00:19:00.000-05:002007-03-18T20:38:45.389-04:00How to Remove Claria, Gain, Gator.

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1118873805109102172005-04-01T00:18:00.000-05:002006-11-28T17:55:38.376-05:00How to Remove ISearchTech.SideFind

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1118705800593186282005-04-01T00:17:00.000-05:002007-02-25T20:27:02.959-05:00How to Remove ConfuSearch.

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1118355389406772462005-04-01T00:16:00.000-05:002007-03-18T20:40:10.287-04:00How to Remove nCase, Zango

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1118277035327032502005-04-01T00:15:00.000-05:002007-02-25T20:30:15.377-05:00How to Remove IELoader

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1118272885763577692005-04-01T00:14:00.000-05:002007-02-25T20:39:53.721-05:00How to Remove ISTBar

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1118269012430093192005-04-01T00:13:00.000-05:002007-02-25T20:41:23.898-05:00How to Remove SearchRelevancy

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1118100306591665062005-04-01T00:12:00.000-05:002007-02-25T20:42:40.409-05:00How to Remove EasySearch, HotOffers.

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1118007683495594932005-04-01T00:11:00.000-05:002005-11-14T19:16:06.676-05:00Important Removal Tool Note

One of Virtual Grub Street's several missions is to provide a clearinghouse for information regarding freeware removal tools available on the Internet. For this reason, it attempts to provide a wide range of information to help you identify which malware your computer is infected with. This may include files names, common infection names, associated url's, and explanatory notes, etc.But this does

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10644518.post-1117670154898683682005-04-01T00:10:00.000-05:002007-02-25T20:44:29.409-05:00How to Remove I-LookUp.

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