Mondegreens

A quick thought for today:
I’ve been listening to a CD of Foo Fighters songs I made from itunes, and I misheard part of Times Like These, resulting in the following mondegreen:
…I’m a streetlight shaman…
The actual line is:
…I’m a streetlight shinin’…
A mondegreen is, of course, a misheard or misinterpreted song lyric (or line in a poem).  I [...]

Strange Loops and Self-Writing Poems

I recently finished reading Douglas Hofstadter’s I Am a Strange Loop and I highly recommend it. In it, Hofstadter details a theory of the soul, if you will. Both Hofstadter and I use the word soul advisedly. It is not the traditional religious/spiritual definition, but rather a concept what could also be [...]