Category: Entertainment
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The Doors of the Sea reflection
If you have ever lost someone you dearly loved, suffered some terrible malady, found yourself plagued with a phobia or anxiety over the abyss of your fate, or survived a natural disaster — please read The Doors of the Sea by David Bentley Hart. For the sake of your own hope and joy, please read…
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How can I road trip like Steinbeck Travels with Charley?
You know how in my reviews of LJ’s novel and FC’s novel both, I talked about how I feel like I owe people all the time? How I feel horrible when I don’t read a friend’s book? That goes double for books I’m gifted. That — I am delighted to say — was not the case for…
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What are the best pranks you’ve heard of or experienced?
Have had a lot of folks since the publication of Bell Hammers reckon with the escalation of pranks in their own life — how a jest can turn into injustice. Sometimes it really is harmless fun, though. Either way: what are the best pranks you’ve heard of or experienced? Tell us in the comments: Photo by Kostiantyn Li on Unsplash
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A Storm Assaults Greenwood Chapel
A Storm Assaults Greenwood Chapel comes from The Greenwood Poet, a book that came out last week as part of my ongoing romance with doubling my years on odd years and then writing that many poems. I spent a couple of years, off and on, writing about the gothic fantastic and the environment and death,…
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Nightmare Saved by the Bell cast bumpers from Adult Swim (2006)
Thanks to Andy Nash, friend of the site, for this find. There are these nightmare Saved by the Bell cast bumpers that Adult Swim aired while airing the show back in 2006:
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Top 5 Books You Bought + Read in the Last 5 Years?
I have a simple question on the site today: What were the top five books you bought AND READ in the last 5 years. Leave yours in the comment thread here. — L
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The Problem with Growing Things
The Problem with Growing Things comes from The Greenwood Poet, a book that came out last week as part of my ongoing romance with doubling my years on odd years and then writing that many poems. I spent a couple of years, off and on, writing about the gothic fantastic and the environment and death,…
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The Power of the Italian Journal of Agronomy
The Power of the Italian Journal of Agronomy comes from The Greenwood Poet, a book that came out last week as part of my ongoing romance with doubling my years on odd years and then writing that many poems. I spent a couple of years, off and on, writing about the gothic fantastic and the…
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Carpenter’s Union Called Him Captain Hook
Carpenter’s Union Called Him Captain Hook comes from The Greenwood Poet, a book that came out last week as part of my ongoing romance with doubling my years on odd years and then writing that many poems. I spent a couple of years, off and on, writing about the gothic fantastic and the environment and…
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Root River
Root River comes from The Greenwood Poet, a book that came out last week as part of my ongoing romance with doubling my years on odd years and then writing that many poems. I spent a couple of years, off and on, writing about the gothic fantastic and the environment and death, before and after…
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Glacier Graves
Glacier Graves comes from The Greenwood Poet, a book that came out last week as part of my ongoing romance with doubling my years on odd years and then writing that many poems. I spent a couple of years, off and on, writing about the gothic fantastic and the environment and death, before and after…
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Cormac McCarthy — Pater Noster in The Road
Cormac McCarthy has another theme that plays out in The Road more practically, one I hinted at at the end of the Inferno piece: is the Pater Noster truly something we all share or is it simply a phrase we all use for pater meus? Set aside for a minute that he’s going straight up…