Category: Entertainment
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Pigeons and Turtledoves
Watch and the world withers before you As you sit and sip. Seats on the peaks Of stool stumps rock. Staying on wheels Lateral that lean? Like we are just sliding Towards the wakes? Towards the streets And their dangerous drakes? Dream about biding Time and the tide. Teach the childer How racist we aren’t.…
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The Second Christmas by F.K. Foraandh
In keeping with reading The Best Christmas Stories, here is The Second Christmas by F.K. Foraandh. It’s a short one, but it’s a really interesting philosophical and theological meditation. It’s a fictional piece about what may or may not have gone through the minds of the holy family as, during the second Christmas, they started to deal…
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Dog Walks on Deep Snow
Here’s a video from SNOWPOCALYPSE in which my dog walks on deep snow:
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To Jack Across the Sea
We two met in the one Irish New York pub known and still run by Eires like you. Our talking it turned up tragic: tuition, writers from the thirties rotting. These comic thoughts, these ideas interrupted the oral momentum: translucent roofs true to Spiderman, blurred and iron // blank and fragile— clichés are the things…
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Letters to a Young Poet …via Email
The following letters to a young poet grew out of emails sent to a poet. He had recently sent me a three-stanza poem asking for critique. I also, by the end, quote from Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet: ••• [Young Poet,] There are some really, really good lines in here and obviously the subject matter is hard…
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This Jodi Picoult Book VS. Writing Rules, Revised
Thanks to you guys, my new book is dominating that Jodi Picoult book: Of course, it probably won’t stay above the Jodi Picoult book and Pierce Brown’s work for long. Maybe it has disappeared into the void already. Regardless, it’s always nice to know you guys have my back. Us verses the literary world, guys. Actually,…
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pigeons
“The pigeon,” said Archimedes, “is a kind of Quaker. She dresses in grey. A dutiful child, a constant lover, and a wise parent, she knows, like all philosophers, that the hand of every man is against her. She has learned throughout the centuries to specialize in escape. No pigeon has ever committed an act of…
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Kindle Faults :: 10 Things My Kindle Can’t Do
There are 10 things my Kindle can’t do. These Kindle faults show the power of preferring a standard paperback: Exist without a Power Source – Unfortunately, somebody bought out Nicolae Tesla’s patents. As is, we have no Tesla Coils to transmit electricity to our Kindle through midair. I’ve had two separate occasions where I ran out…
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Gloria in Profundis by G.K. Chesterton
In keeping with our annual tradition — Christmas readings of the best Christmas stories — here’s a poem by G.K. Chesterton entitled Gloria in Profundis. It’s a poem about how the fall of God is greater than the fall of man: If you’d like to hear more of the best Christmas stories, click here. cover…
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A Christmas Carol Stave 3 : The Second of Three Spirits by Charles Dickens
Keeping my tradition of Christmas readings of the best Christmas stories, here is A Christmas Carol Stave 3 : the second of Three Spirits by Charles Dickens. This section focuses on the ghost of Christmas present: If you’d like to see more of the best Christmas stories, go here. Stave One Stave Two
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Kubo and the Two Strings Analysis
Thanks to Micah Foreman for lending me his copy of Kubo and the Two Strings. I first heard about this film from Patrick Rothfuss back in May. Obviously after Coraline, I’ve been a big fan of Laika and I’m looking forward to their Wildwood adaptation, though I doubt it’ll come out quickly. In any case,…
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Journalists: We Seldom Know WHY Something is the Case
It drives me insane when an author titles an article Why something is the case when they really mean “How” something came to be or “What” we’ve decided to call it. labels + instructions ≠ explanations To expound: labeling a thing for your readers or offering them DIY instructions for making or using said…