Did you know San Antonio’s River Walk is totally fake—I mean, even more fake than your standard, Branson-type tourist trap? The San Antonio river dried up in 1904, and since then, the city has been filling the river just north of the city by pumping it full of groundwater from the Edwards Aquifer. Recently, they began using recycled sewage and runoff instead.
Coincidentally, recycled sewage is also how I describe Wild at Heart, only without the benefit of it also being fertilizer.
at least they are using recycled precious bodily fluids rather than precious aquifer.
as to wild@heart… i said all i’m gonna say about it a while back
by Jeremy—Mar 27, 03:10 PM
Aww, c’mon. I get a good laugh every time I open that book. I wonder if there’s anybody in my neighborhood studying it…?
by greg—Mar 27, 03:15 PM
to me, this sounds like the emails that my students send me. the point was not to inform us about river walk…but about your opinion on the book. thus, your post itself is fake… much like the music on river walk is fake. not that i don’t like old jazz… but, i like the sound of old jazz by old jazz players… not the sound of old jazz by new jazz players trying to sound like old jazz.
by Jeremy—Mar 27, 04:19 PM
Well, it was as much about river walk as about the book—hence the title. But I’ve never been to river walk. I have read (part of) that blasted book.
You want I should delete the whole and try again?
Or I could just make fun of your Jesus beard. Talk about fake masculinity…
by greg—Mar 27, 04:25 PM
oh make fun of the beard… why delete the post?
after all, we at hermits aren’t about being serious.
it seems that they won’t be asking me. so, i’ve shaved and i’m walking around with nothing but chin hair, and t complains bitterly.
tho, a student told me that i look like abraham lincoln…
by Jeremy—Mar 27, 04:36 PM
You’re goateeing? How bohemian!
If you are like Abe, though, that’s less Bohemian, and more gay.
by greg—Mar 27, 04:41 PM
Ok, I just have to put this here: this Lincoln from that salon article linked above is
hotthot, in a skinny man’s buff kind of way.by greg—Mar 27, 04:45 PM
doris kearns goodwin is sooo ahead of you!
2nd to last question
it’s the goatee sans moustachio
by Jeremy—Mar 27, 04:57 PM
To speak to your original—question, was it?—I’m also reading a book on water rights and abuses of groundwater use in America. We can chat about that, if you like. Did you know Tampa Bay, FL, has drained several lakes dry, having pumped all their water out through wells?
by greg—Mar 27, 04:58 PM
look at you!! getting ready for the flight up to the northern plains!!!
by Jeremy—Mar 27, 04:59 PM
hey abe/jesus, my students want to know who sancho is satirizing, if dq is charles v. other than that, they were resistant to the idea that dq was anything more than a fun satire that cervantes did just to entertain himself, like all their clever timewasters that get forwarded around on email. i thought this was a pretty eighth-grade level interpretation (“why does everything in poetry have to symbolize something else? why don’t they just say what they mean?”), but hey, at least they did the reading. or faked it, to return to the subject of this post.
by mary—Mar 27, 05:05 PM
Indeed, if you can call falling asleep on the futon in the middle of the day with a cat and a book on your lap preparation, then that’s what I am doing.
by greg—Mar 27, 05:39 PM
sancho, of course, is spain… i would say more, even at the cost of boring our readers, but this is turning into a fullblown post, so i will get that on-line sometime tonight.
by Jeremy—Mar 27, 06:11 PM
God I envy your life.
by JH—Mar 27, 06:13 PM
Above comment meant for Greg, though J’s life may be pretty sweet too.
by JH—Mar 27, 06:14 PM
will pass that on.
so greg, does this mean you have an interview? i must have missed this info.
by mary—Mar 27, 07:54 PM
i almost felt important… somebody envies my life!
no, i don’t fall asleep on the futon in the middle of the day with my cat all cozied up with a book on drying up aquifers.
by Jeremy—Mar 27, 08:02 PM
JH, envy away, although are you sure that you want the pennilessness that goes along with it?
by greg—Mar 27, 08:16 PM
mary, greg says i can answer your question, and then this way i can keep him from stealing my seat at the computer yet again…looks like those people are going to fly him out there, but we don’t know when yet. he’s already interviewed with them over the phone twice, so hopefully this won’t involve another formal interview. i guess he’ll find out when they call back to suggest travel plans. hence the boning up on environmental issues (or falling asleep over them, whichever…)
by kathy—Mar 27, 08:24 PM
What K said. Fingers crossed, tomorrow’s when they call. If not, I will scream a silent death. And I am sure that K will scream a louder silent death.
by greg—Mar 27, 11:19 PM
Ooh—fingers crossed, lucky charms rubbed, prayers for not screaming any kind of death, silent or otherwise!
by Laura—Mar 28, 07:38 AM
I already have the pennilessness. Still being in grad school, I toil endlessly and pay the school for my trouble, rather than they paying me. You may not be getting paid, but at least you’re not paying someone for the honor of working for them.
Anyway, I envy you not so much for the leisure you have during the day, but for the futon and the cat.
by JH—Mar 28, 10:04 AM
I hated that part of graduate school that had me pay tuition. We had a union, and because of it we were paid a fair market wage for our work, but without it, both K and I would have been sunk. (Not that we’re not sunk now…)
The futon has its problems, and if I were feeling peckish, I might discourage you from envying it, but it’s functional; however, the cat is beyond reproach. He crowds open laps and loves to join sleepers in their sleeping. He purrs with abandon. He must be loved!
by greg—Mar 28, 10:16 AM
Awwwww
by JH—Mar 28, 10:26 AM
I can regale you with lots of that sort of thing, if you ever need a cat.blog fix. Here’s one more, to prevent cat jealousy.
by greg—Mar 28, 10:37 AM
a girl must air her belly after a hard day of dictionary reading.
by kathy—Mar 28, 11:17 AM
the leg and toes are above reproach, as well
by Jeremy—Mar 28, 11:45 AM
Leg and toes appear courtesy of summer.
by greg—Mar 28, 01:21 PM
Ah. . . my cat is also fond of this posture , but as she is also rather plump, it ’s not exactly above reproach. This shot is more adorable.
My apologies for taking up comment real estate with non-Hermit cat photos. I couldn’t help myself.
by Laura—Mar 28, 06:42 PM
Let it be known that the Hermit-Author of this post appreciates all cat photos—on topic or off. Cat commenting is a totally acceptable practice.
That 2nd pic of Tyger is quite adorable!
by greg—Mar 28, 07:31 PM
Oh good! Tyger is rather adorable, if somewhat difficult at times. I am also fond of this picture of cat and computer.
by Laura—Mar 28, 07:45 PM
we at hermits have never had issues with people grandstanding, hijacking, or even using our site as a kitty-cat show-off place.
especially when they are as great as the cat and computer…and this is from someone who is allergic to cats.
though, if one is cuddly and warm, i can’t resist.
by Jeremy—Mar 28, 09:06 PM
Your graciousness knows no bounds. I am technically allergic to cats, but, as I once said to an allergist, I would rather have the cat and take more antihistamines than not have the cat and take more antidepressants.
by Laura—Mar 28, 09:42 PM
personally, i like the first up-close pic of tyger-lolling-on-back.
it seems that our cats give us allergy difficulties as well, especially bingley, as dandruffy as he always is. it’s only because they’re so cute that they can get away with these atrocities.
by kathy—Mar 29, 01:43 AM
we should say… these pictures of cats are anything but fake…
cat’s couldn’t be fake even if they had the ability to dissemble
by Jeremy—Mar 29, 07:10 AM
I was thinking the same thing. Perhaps we can only take so much fakery, and Eldredge, combined with San Antonio and a gay Lincoln, overloaded our collective. Enough cats for now! Back to inauthentic things! You used the wrong word: disassemble means “not tell the truth.” I don’t know where you get this word, dissemble.
by greg—Mar 29, 08:38 AM