1. Fred Tomaselli "Big Raven" 2008 (discovered on Phantasmaphile) 2. Earworm Destroyer? You betcha: Unhearit.com 3. 40 years of happy boiled down to 5 minutes. 4. from Malchy Walsh at Lit Dept Any Subject + "STUPID" = Lazy Thinking I work in an ad agency. Everything there is "stupid". Social media is stupid. Planners are stupid. Clients are [...]
Ujin Lee and Tom Edwards Dust 2. Dante Atkins at the Daily Kos As thereisnospoon pointed out to me recently, though, Democrats have an opportunity to use their support for Park 51 to reinforce their existing narrative about supporting the little guy. Democrats support the right of middle-class moderate Muslims to worship in peace for the same reasons that we [...]
A world in which you are allowed (and increasingly expected to) publically opine on every issue whether you have expertise or not is going to perforce lead to radical generalizations.The ongoing debate over the Park 51 community center has shown the currency of the concept of Islam not as a different religion but as the diametric opposite of Christianity in [...]
It has been a terribly odd year. In many ways this has been a banner year, continuing a strong of banner years. Little of that has had to do with any great effort on my part. As I try to get some traction on my burn out and actually produce something I leave you with Veda Hille singing what the [...]
I am a terrible correspondent. I mean world-class bottom-of-the-barrel correspondent. Phone, email, letter, telegram, message in a bottle…. I am excruciatingly bad at returning communication. Which is a bit surprising given the number of words that I churn out in a given month but what it is really? Busted linkage. I am absolutely responding to you. I am really reading [...]
I have been interested in the art of the every day for some time. In March of 2002 I posted as a culmination of a few different posts: We all have in us what Ginsberg threw on a page 40 years ago, we all have the rage, and pain, and love, and vitriol, and joy, and lust and hate, and [...]
The modern 24-hour news cycle hasn’t been kind to anyone exactly, but it’s been very hard for the modern professional athlete. Religious and political leaders may be unfairly and mercilessly held to a standard we could never live up to ourselves, but there is a certain expectation when you choose those vocations that morality will be required. Reading progressions in [...]
I have been “blogging” since the spring of 2001. Of course the rank and file didn’t call it blogging back them, I was keeping an online journal, which sounds even more horrifying in retrospect. A refugee from a poetry circle (I know!) on a community website called ECircles, we moved to Livejournal because of its robust community features. Which, along [...]
Several times over the last year since I combined my personal blog with the Cambiare Productions blog I have expressed to Will that I wished I had someplace to complain about all of the things that annoyed me or to link the news articles or stories that I ran across in my endless quest to read the entire internet every [...]
