Category: articles
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Artistic Resistance :: Reflections
IN Aids to Reflection, Samuel Taylor Coleridge says the following (he often enjoyed employing the use of all-caps): READER!—You have been bred in a land abounding with men, able in arts, learning, and knowledges manifold, this man in one, this in another, few in many, none in all. But there is one art, of which…
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Trump as Plankton
jdelgado has some great stuff over at Deviant Art. Stuff like Trump as Plankton: Doctor Furley: And Rocco DeMarco as Booker DeWitt: Check out the rest of his stuff over on Deviant. Thanks to Mark Neuenschwander for turning me onto this stuff, especially the trump as plankton one.
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To Della Beyond the Veil
You yearned for your homeland. Always do. After the era passes you, you pass too. Music styles wane as moons, Norwood’s fiddle when new knew you, knew grandkids too, never me though or the little themes that we know, millennials make do. My how the strings request of me: “Play.” Can resonance reach across a…
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A Place in Your Mind :: Harry Potter and Sirius Black Fan Fiction
In preparation for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them I whipped together a piece of Sirius Black Fan Fiction. I’ve thought about this story idea for several years. It’s a story called “A Place in Your Mind” and it covers what happened to Sirius in proximity to Book 4: The Goblet of Fire. Enjoy. The letter…
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Sitting at the Feet of a Stone Sculptor
Abraham Mohler has now spent over 15 years in the business as a stone sculptor. With a studio in downtown St. Louis and gallery representation, he has broken rank and garnered the kind of exponential conservation of momentum you expect from objects in motion. I sat at his feet over the course of several days at a…
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Saturn by Sleeping at Last
It’s very, very rare that a songwriter can stare into the abyss with a great nihilistic plunge and emerge on the other side breathing and alive as Chesterton and David Bentley Hart alike would have us do: to celebrate the mystical minimum of all that is, but the band SLEEPING AT LAST did just that in their…
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Congress Needs a Fart Jar
After reading the elegant Climate Protection and Justice Act, I figure that a great addition to the proposed carbon tax would be a methane tax — a methane tax sweeping enough to even include a fart jar in Congress that they may fart proudly and pay their toll. As the republican economist and scientist said in…
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Uncon 2016: Author in Progress
We were never meant to go it alone and yet somehow the bad myth of the lone wolf artist persists. It shows up in the isolated anxiety attacks of writers preparing for their pitch slams at a massive conference, in the loneliness of presentations, in the alienation of large group lectures, and in the all-business-no-play…
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Monotone Readings VS. Oral Performance
When I moved to New York, my first real surprise was the monotone readings. Something about the MFA culture in this town has gone and whitewashed every reading series with this sort of monotone half-jaded, half-sarcastic voice. You’ll find this tone shared by nearly all poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction grads. I won’t name any…
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Two Wolves and a Lamb
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. – Benjamin Franklin