Category: creativity
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Will My Alma Mater Save 9 Million Dollars ?
Tis the season for phonathons — political, religious, and otherwise. Got a call from my alma mater and I was unfortunately unable to give to their phone-a-thon cause this year, but I figure I can give something better. Something that has me REALLY excited, hopeful, and proud: together, we could generate over $ 9 million in savings…
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How Fred Danback Saved 12,000 Lives on September 11th
From Makoto Fujimura’s Culture Care :: In the early 1960s, Fred Danback came home from the Korean War to work at Anaconda Wire and Cable, a copper wire factory in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, thirty miles north of Manhattan. It was a booming enterprise. But he soon became troubled by what he saw at the factory. To…
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Dr. Ben Carson, Dr. Otto Octavious, and Dr. Strangelove Hang Signs
Somewhere in the middle of Missouri’s route 44 wasteland, Dr. Ben Carson, Dr. Otto Octavious, and Dr. Strangelove hang political signs for Dr. Carson’s campaign. They work on a big billboard featuring their faces and the faces of hundreds of other famous Doctors. It reads, Peace Is Our Profession. They were all, of course, hired for the job for the very same…
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The Pot Hole
In the past few years, I’ve seen politicians found campaigns upon the legalization of Mary Jane, encountered books titled everything from Puff or Pass? to Pot, Inc., and heard some of the most logically unsound arguments for any position on any topic ever applied to why we should legalize NOW! People have loaded up on…
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JOHNNY CAGE OF MORTAL KOMBAT CALLS 911
“911 operator, what’s your emergency?” “I inhaled a fireball.” “Okay where are you?” “Oh god, I don’t know… I… I swallowed a fireball, what do I do?” “Stay calm.” “Okay, okay. BUT IT’S A FIREBALL.” “Right. Where are you?” “Liu Kang’s dojo. Our summer barbecue kind of got out of hand…” “Out of hand how?”…
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Vox Dei • from 54 poems at 27
Within my mind there hides a whitened stag whose face appears those times I find my voice. I saw him first within the books I write though handsome, he appeared robed like a hag. He offered my overgrown mind a choice: To keep on writing the story I’d found or follow him forward into the…
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The Wreaker • from 54 poems at 27
every tree torn down through the wrath of a terrible twister every branch broke off at the paws of this barreling bear all these homes, how I know they’re reduced to embers all our homes – so many triangles cut out of squares take one Omnimax camera and stack it up on top of another walk…
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Convocatio • from 54 poems at 27
come to the borders outside your town come pilots and forders come naked or in a gown come to the borders springtime and frost not all we who wander are counted with the lost meet me at the inn of the borderland where travel’s the only cost tear your leash asunder your chains be tempest…
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At the North American Premier :: Of Men and War
By some luck and love, Tara and I received memberships to MoMa this year for Christmas. Among the benefits are free tickets to every showing they offer, including their various festivals. We made it to the North American premier of the film… Of Men and War by Laurent Bécue Renard Man were we in…
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Burdens [song] • from 54 poems at 27
written originally during Lent for The Calendar Years C maj7 C7 We set down indulgence Fmaj7 Fm7 and pray for your restraint Em7 A7 We give up our taking Dm7 G7 and take away complaint Cmaj7 I need less violence C7 Need less slander Fmaj7 Fm7 C need less of what I hate I hand you…
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NEW RELEASE :: The Encounter Stories
Buy on Payhip Buy on Amazon In The Encounter Stories, I assembled four literary shorts written for the young adult audience of the magazine “Encounter.” Three of these stories were published in past years, one I wrote specifically for this collection :: Lance has turned a physically abusive relationship between two little hispanic sisters into a moment…
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So you want to make money writing…
More and more these days, I get emails from people asking me how they can make money writing. I’ve given different responses over the years, but they all sound similar to this most recent one :: [name redacted], That’s quite the story, my friend. Thanks for sharing. Off the top of my head: Forget about…