Category: creativity
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Monomyth Definition: A Defense of The Hero’s Journey
Let me again pick up a standard that has fallen on our literary battlefield: the standard that marks the entrance of The Defender of The Common. It would seem a silly thing to need to defend common things, but in truth we have grown quite accustomed to tearing down good things simply because great things exist.…
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Bad Vinyl : horrible album covers and the angsty literary stories behind them
Bad Vinyl Album Covers In my ongoing creative collaboration with Mark N. Photo — a collaboration we’re starting to call The Brothers brothers — we started writing angsty literary stories for cheesy album covers Mark found at antique stores. It’s over on Tumblr: https://bad-vinyl.tumblr.com/post/156323515343/don-was-a-country-boy-alright-but-not-in-the https://bad-vinyl.tumblr.com/post/156583733378/they-had-been-eating-mashed-taters-when-deciding https://bad-vinyl.tumblr.com/post/156366071583/theyd-asked-pete-for-years-to-let-his-hair-down . . . cover image by andrechinn
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Dark Disney : Zootopia Try Everything by Shakira
For your weekend entertainment, I give you a little cover song I did for this Dark Disney series. It’s that song from Zootopia Try Everything by Shakira. Have a great weekend, folks.
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John Lithgow, The Crown Spinoff, and other musings
Tara and I seldom watch TV shows and movies — I’ve focused on doubling down to catch up on my reading. Having said that, we burned through The Crown during the holiday break and I have some thoughts, spoilery though they may be: For one, the series tends to focus on the tension between the two…
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The Best Amateur Website Still Uses Canva
Featured Tool: Click here to access the main tool that the best amateur websites use. Awhile back when I went cruising around for advice on my site, I found the best amateur website still using the same service that all of these other amateur websites used. I hesitate to mention it because I don’t want to…
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Living without Social Media — 21 Letters Written
Well we’re two months into our year of living without social media and I can confidently say I don’t miss it, even with googling the news more than normal (which I’m also trying to curb as I used to abstain from reading the news, but as the desert fathers said, sometimes you have to use one vice to…
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Mr. Two Face Dark Knight : Meeting Jongluers and Troubadours in my Dark Knight Rewatch
I could be called Mr. Two Face Dark Knight when it comes to analysis and thinking — reflectively — on the films and books I read. I don’t know about you, but I find myself wrong more often than I’m right. Likely that’s because everything we don’t know is infinite. Everything we do know is finite. And…
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Why I, an Adult, Believe in Santa by Lancelot Schaubert
Why I, an Adult, Believe in Santa is an article I wrote four years ago and it seemed fitting to read for The Best Christmas Stories because it’s something of a meta-story about Christmas in general — particularly the mythos of Santa and why that’s a good thing:
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The Little Guest by Margery Williams Bianco
For the Best Christmas Stories, we’re now reading The Little Guest by Margery Williams Bianco. Really love the ending to this one.
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Vulnerare by Lancelot Schaubert
Here’s one of my own — one of the poems I recently posted on here — for the Best Christmas Stories, a poem called Vulnerare. I’m also using this to splinter off into a third podcast which will eventually compose poetry readings.
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Santa Claus: A Psychograph by Gamaliel Bradford
For my annual readings of The Best Christmas stories, here is Santa Claus: A Psychograph by Gamaliel Bradford. It’s a wonderful bit about the psychology behind a man who would want to travel around the world giving to others. As well as the psychology of those who hope to emulate him by participating in the mythos:
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My First Christmas Tree by Hamlin Garland
Getting into the momentum here reading one an hour for our annual tradition of the best Christmas stories. You’ll be able to tell Tara and I are enjoying relaxing to the sounds of Christmas all around us… relaxing enough that I botched the intro on My First Christmas Tree by Hamlin Garland like eight times. Here’s My…