Author: Lancelot Schaubert
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Root River
Root River 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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Glacier Graves
Glacier Graves 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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Cormac McCarthy — Pater Noster in The Road
Cormac McCarthy has another theme that plays out in The Road more practically, one I hinted at at the end of the Inferno piece: is the Pater Noster truly something we all share or is it simply a phrase we all use for pater meus? Set aside for a minute that he’s going straight up…
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Gilded by Greenwood
Gilded by Greenwood 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…
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Stairway to Heaven — πίστει, ἀρετήν, γνῶσιν, ἐγκράτειαν, ὑπομονήν, τὴνεὐσέβειανφιλαδελφίαν, ἀγάπην
Wanted to talk a bit about the flowering of faith — the stairway to heaven — found in the additions of faith passage this morning. I’m sipping my tea at Think in the Financial District (have some errands to run at City Hall for a wedding I’m officiating for a fashion designer this fall). But…
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The Road — Cormac McCarthy’s Inferno
I have avoided reading McCarthy’s The Road since it came out in college predominately because, after reading All The Pretty Horses, I didn’t think I needed that kind of bleak post apocalypse in my mind. You remember what you want to forget and forget what you want to remember, after all. And frankly, knowing what…
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Greenwood’s Portcullis
Greenwood’s Portcullis comes from The Greenwood Poet, a book that came out today 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 COVID…
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Diabetic Jokes
Diabetes gets old. Diabetic jokes do not. I still laugh when my wife says, “I’m low,” after having a needle in her all day. Or, after having a bout of sugar-related uncontrollable emotion, yelling, “I’m so high right now!” People have asked her in restaurants if she’s playing video games and I almost lose my…
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Detective Writer Podcast
Sally at the Detective Writer podcast had me on to talk about the inspiration behind the sequel to Bell Hammers as well as my character Snatch who shows up in several short stories. We talked while a massive harvest moon loomed over the 46th street hill and our conversation spanned all manner of inspiration, praxis,…
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The Presider of the United States
Whatever else the job of President of the United States might entail, it at very least entails presiding. The Presider of the United States must sit before the most boring meetings in the country. And if you want to know what that feels like, just sit in on the minutes reading from any Rotary or…
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Name Your Knot
I remember being at Camp Joy in Boy Scouts and going to knot-tying class that insisted you name your knot — was there with a dad named Jim — my buddy Andy’s dad. And we all sat around and tied our knots and Jim was working his way with a knot in the back of the…
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Urban Scavenging and Falling Fruit for Freegan Folk
Bit blurry, but these Juneberries hanging from a lone couple branches underneath sheet scaffolding in a construction project down the block illustrate the urban scavenging I’ve dipped my toe into. It started recently with mulberries we remembered in the Bay Ridge community botanical garden (a rather huge installation of neighbors that rivals many government-backed and…