Author: Lancelot Schaubert
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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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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. I spent a couple of years, off and on, writing about the gothic fantastic and the environment and death, before…
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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,…
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The day when a B-25 Mitchell bomber crashed into the Empire State Building in New York City, 1945
On Saturday, July 28, 1945, a B-25 Mitchell bomber traveling at 200 miles per hour (330 km/h) out of Massachusetts headed for Newark Airport got lost… The day when a B-25 Mitchell bomber crashed into the Empire State Building in New York City, 1945