Category: articles
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Writers Retreat and Going Off-Grid
Last week, I took a midweek writers retreat up to Salem, Massachusetts (of witchhunt fame) by way of Boston bus and train. The retreat was organized by those who organized the Writer Unboxed Uncon (the writing conference I won the scholarship to last year). It was informal and available to everyone who went to the conference, so…
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Mosaics Fix Potholes
Thanks to Jeff Youngblood for this one. In a stunning work of culture care, Jim Bachor started fixing Chicago’s abandoned potholes with mosaics: Go see the rest here.
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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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Dead Guest Post — Areopagitica
Today’s Dead Guest Post comes from John Milton. Milton delivered this originally as a speech. I’m rehosting this pubdom article (also part of the Harvard Classics) because of the recent article in The Spectator that shows how students want comfort in their classrooms. The classroom is for many things, but your comfort is not one of them, friends… This…
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Dear Future Lance: The Project is Ash — and that’s what makes it beautiful
The best things I ever accomplish always immediately follow me: getting to my wits end, realizing that I am nothing, I am finite, I will die — meditating even on the circumstances that will attend my death and that I will only die in one of the many billions of ways that exist for man…
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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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Dead Guest Post — The Imagination: its Function and its Culture
Today’s dead guest post comes from George MacDonald. It was first published 1867 in a Dish of Orts :: THERE are [those] in whose notion education would seem to consist in the production of a certain repose through the development of this and that faculty, and the depression, if not eradication, of this and that…
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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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Bilbo it up.
A few weeks back, Pat Rothfuss challenged us on twitter with the following: Get out there and Bilbo it up! Bare feet! Crispy leaves! Live a little! I want pictures too! pic.twitter.com/Bu8ckvUVl1 — Pat Rothfuss (@PatrickRothfuss) October 18, 2015
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Elon Musk’s Submarine Car: Why Build It?
In the authorized biography Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, Ashlee Vance highlights Elon’s purchase of the submarine car: Elon Musk paid $1 Million for the Lotus Espirit that Roger Moore drove underwater in The Spy Who Loved Me and wantes to prove that such a vehicle can be done. “Maybe we’ll make…
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Inkwell • from 54 poems at 27
Her house was underground in a town that ends in “A” her daddy was a preacher but the preachin’ wouldn’t pay when her brother tried to drown cause he didn’t wanna grey I tried for days to reach her but she took a week to say meet me in the roundabout in the town square…
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What they Chanted • from 54 poems at 27
Out of the sidewalks & into the streets Out of the sidewalks & into the streets Out of the sidewalks & into the streets If there’s no justice, gonna be no peace, until there’s no more killer police Hey hey, ho ho, these killer cops have got to go Hey hey, ho ho, these killer…