Category: Entertainment
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In Good Humor and Craft: The drDOCTOR readings
In my experience, I’ve found one of two problems in many literary crowds and clubs: they either take themselves too seriously or not seriously enough. The former never approach their craft with a healthy dose of self-depreciation and humor – let’s just be honest, creative writing is a strange thing to do in 21st-century America. The latter seldom try…
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What is markdown formatting?
As one final note – to encourage colorful comments, I have enabled Markdown formatting. Here is the cheat sheet, copied from WordPress support: Markdown quick reference trick Markdown code When processed Emphasis *Emphasize* _emphasize_ **Strong** __Strong__ Emphasize Strong Some WordPress.com themes may have different formatting for these styles Inline Links A [link](http://example.com “Title”). Most browsers show…
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Artists Thriving and Recovering Imagination
I’m busy helping people who have lost something magical and are desperate to find their way back: artists who have lost the art and non-artists who have tied their imaginations up with crappy plastic cuffs, shoved them into the basement of lost souls, and stuffed their ears to the whimpers.
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The Vagabond Librarian: a pledge
I wanted to create a bit of a bookend to that last season of blogging for those of you that have followed consistently. And honestly for my own closure, I needed a way to say a good goodbye to that particular season. I made a little pledge for us. I’m calling it The Vagabond Librarian pledge – it pretty much…
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Notes from Heschel: The Architecture of Time • from 54 poems at 27
Techno-civilization / breaks existence – time for space – / more objective(s), more to place. / Having more ain’t being more, / might of space still dies at time’s / borders. Existence beats its / heart not in spaces, but times.
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Behind the Scenes of Our Barista-Made Film Noir
We wanted you who follow here and at cold-brewed.com to have the first crack at passing this behind-the scenes video along to your friends. Thanks for the continued support, gang.
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For the Love of God • 54 poems at 27
Could we with ink the ocean fill // Oh, God I know how we have tried // where pipe has burst below the Gulf // or man poured into it his pride
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Sonnet Number Absolute Zero • from 54 poems at 27
Can I expend my energy to freeze? To move to stop before I’m out of moves?
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sitting at the feet of : a documentary filmmaker
Spring Break, 1998. An eighth grader rode west from Kansas City to San Francisco. Inside a two-story Virgin Records store, he ascended an escalator and at its zenith faced his future in film-making. After dozens of art classes, questions of color and light had saturated his mind. Around that time, his grandfather gave him an…
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“The Malignant Trub” – a story for Art Feeds
This thursday, I’ll be telling the true story “The Malignant Trub” to help raise money for Art Feeds here in Joplin.