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How do I use Shunn Manuscript Format?
Bill Shunn not long ago released a piece on manuscript format due to what seems to have been a dearth in standardization at the time. His guide has come to be known as Shunn Manuscript format. Some, for whatever reason, found his guide hard to find — or hard to follow — so I’m writing my…
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Vintage Robots: Revisiting the Early Robots of the 20th Century via Old Photos
The 20th century marked a significant period of evolution in the field of robotics, ushering in a transformative era of technological advancement. … Vintage Robots: Revisiting the Early Robots of the 20th Century via Old Photos
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What brands do you associate with?
What brands do you associate with? What a ridiculous prompt today here in WordPression, but I’ll bite— “what brands do you associate with?” None. I hate the word brand. I hated it when I did branding professionally as a copywriter and creative director. It comes from cattle ranching: searing a rancher’s name into the butt…
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Perugia Balcony
Perugia Balcony 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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I could do more of doing less.
What could you do more of? Haven’t ever tried the prompts such as today’s “what could you do more of,” but I think my answer comes from Heschel’s Sabbath, the songs I wrote for H.A.L.T.S. …and the spirit behind THE GREENWOOD POET (which just hit shelves). It’s not that I’m spreading myself too thin right…
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Fart Proudly by Benjamin Franklin
Editor’s Note: Fart Proudly or A Letter to a Royal Academy about farting or To the Royal Academy of Farting was a response by Benjamin Franklin to the academic societies of the time that were, if you’ll excuse me, up their own ass. We’re publishing Fart Proudly in our long tradition of Dead Guest Posts…
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Perugia Under Different Suns
Perugia Under Different Suns 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.
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In 1996 after experiencing Russian immigration to Australia, a man released an album. Millennials found it.
In 1996 Boris Bortnik & Alex Arbatov + Igor Arbatov released an album about their experience of their Russian immigration to Australia — a full album. The owners of Rasputin International reception centre in Melbourne recorded it in 1996. He threw away the box. 25 years later a group of Russian millennials tracked down his son…
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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,…