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The Facebook Sonnet by Sherman Alexie
Featured download: If you’re looking for the full text of The Facebook Sonnet, click here. As I beefed up my submission for Chrysallis‘ next issue Patterns, I tried to catch up on way-overdue poetry reads, digging through old New Yorkers, searching for the last three Missouri Reviews and getting a bit further in my copy of…
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Sitting at the feet of a Seller of Stock Options (part 2 of 5)
DISCLAIMER: This is an interview with a friend and should be read as such. For professional investing advice, please consult your personal financial advisor. This interview should in no way be construed as professional investing advice for your personal portfolio. You are responsible for your own money, not me or Greg Hull. Last time, Greg…
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Forbidden by Ted Dekker
This was, by far, the most frustrating novel I’ve read. It comes out tomorrow, for those interested. Don’t get me wrong, Dekker put effort into Forbidden. He’d have to with his “New York Times Bestselling Author” blurb on every book. The book had moments of rapture, these moments where I believed these characters existed out…
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Sitting at the Feet of a Film Analyst (part 6 ~ Fin)
In part five, we wrestled through the problems of interpreting symbolism in film. This shorter conclusion to the Film Analyst ATE works through the idea of the new American hero in film. (We also praise demolition engineers who get paid to blow $#!! up). Doug Welch: “See? You didn’t bring anything to the movie, did…
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Sitting at the Feet of a Film Analyst (part 5)
In part four, Doug Welch and I talked through the appropriate times to notice figures/symbols of Christ in characters and the inappropriate evanglistic uses of film by Christians. We also showed two pictures connecting Wall-E and the Pieta, but that’s neither here nor there… LS: Two quick ones. We just saw The Help, and it…
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Quick Crits
A full review of Dekker’s new book is coming. Actually, it’s more of a scathing flogging of Dekker’s new book. Until then, here’s what I’ve read/am reading of late: Brutal. Hilarious. Sobering. I won’t read Slaughterhouse Five again, but I’m glad to have read it once. All the happy parts make you cry. All the…
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Sitting at the Feet of a Film Analyst (part 4)
Last week, The Boy Wonder and that other schmuck in the black suit talked on voiceover, visual show-don’t-tell and the power of good dialog. This week, we dig into the meat: SYMBOLISM! LS: Something we were talking about, symbolism in general, there’s a picture that was posted of Rothfuss’ Facebook page. This guy said, “I…
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Lancelot’s Roundtable Miscellany 001
“It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.” OSCAR WILDE In the spirit of Schott’s Original Miscellany, here’s what I’m Literating from the past month… Yale Art Students Website Background: Oprahed (originally @ the Gig) Oprah |Oh•pur•uh| (verb Oprahs, Oprahing; past and past participle Oprahed) [intransitive]: 1. To break down sobbing on…
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Sitting at the Feet of a Film Analyst (part 3)
Last time, the film hero Doug Welch (and your Daily Bugle rep here) talked through show-don’t-tell, the evil of voice-over and the benefit of imagery when used in voice over’s stead. They also read some comics aloud… LS: That might be a really terrific exercise to sift through [Shawshank] and say what does that show…
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Sitting at the Feet of a Film Analyst (part 2)
When we last left our unlikely heroes, they dealt with the questions of the maturity of film as a medium, art verses advertisement and the realist movement in film. They also made fun of Superman, comparing him to a homesick little boy at summer camp, but that’s neither here nor there… Lance Schaubert: That’s where…