Author: Lancelot Schaubert
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Sunset Park shooting and the 500 Eggs
As some of you know, living in the neighborhood through the Sunset Park shooting was tricky to navigate — to say the least. Also hard. 10 neighbors shot from 33 rounds a few houses away from Bobby Constantino whom I interviewed for this piece on gun violence. For years, family and acquaintances and some close…
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Fix A.I. Art — a petition
If we can teach college freshman to cite their sources, why can’t we fix A.I. art generators so that they do the same? The way that creators of A.I. art generators and the way that artists both talk about A.I. art generators is wrong. And the proof emerges in calculators. Does a calculator own the…
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Eulogy for Steve Schaubert
My father, Steve Schaubert, died last week of hairy cell leukemia developed by Monsanto’s Roundup, COVID in his immuno-compromised state, and renal failure brought on by Gilead’s remdesivir. His obituary is here. I performed the eulogy for Steve Schaubert at Ed Rankin Funeral home. The audio is below, first in English and then in Spanish…
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Sitting at the Feet of a Good Neighbor
Dean and Tammy Balu lived in their house starting in 1986 and for five to ten years, Dean took care of his own yard and cut his grass — the line between his yard and his neighbor’s yard, even though there was only four feet between that line and his driveway. Two extra laps of…
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The Year of the Locust
Often folks ask why folks call Southern Illinois “Little Egypt” and you have to tell them it all started with the year of the locust. It’s not entirely true, of course, but locusts carry forth the sort of poetic resonance the rest of the story holds. In 1799, this old Baptist minister named — you’ll never…
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worst of all
The worst of all passes me byLike an actor memorizingA long-forgotten role I go backLearning my entire life by heartAs to not embarrass myself when I introduceMyself to me The worst of all passesme byAs if it were aiming for someoneElse.It will noticeIts mistake.And come back Translated from Hebrew by Natalie Feinstein
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Underdog Author VS. Amazon
Perhaps Amazon should have thought twice before trying to bully this particular underdog author considering how my debut BELL HAMMERS features my grandpas taking on multiple mega corporations. They used large scale pranks and practical jokes. Perhaps Amazon should have read how Bloody Williamson responded to the Southern Illinois Coal Company’s attempt to break the…
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Did Amazon cancel your pre-order of BELL HAMMERS? Here’s what happened…
Did your pre-order of BELL HAMMERS on Amazon get cancelled? Here’s what happened: Back in January, Amazon committed to handling pre-orders and fulfillment for the October 12, 2020 release of BELL HAMMERS. Many of you pre-ordered from them both in January and now. BELL HAMMERS sold out twice. After learning from many of you that…
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What do we mean by moral law?
A few have asked in recent days what we mean when we say “moral law” or “virtue” or “moral philosophy” in the liberal arts. It seems, very often, that an oft repeated lie gets turned into the truth of the minds of those who have not studied broad enough or deep enough. A broad reading…
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5 Big Questions: Technology and Virtue
We’re starting 5 Big Questions because we had a really vibrant comment section years ago that has since switched to more personal interactions with you all via email. Though we cherish those interactions, we also wanted to encourage you all to dialog with one another as well in the comments. So we’re going to try…
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You Will Never Find Me This Way
Before we get to You Will Never Find Me This Way, We of the Showbear Family Circus write with a heavy heart to tell you that the author of these three poems, Jonathan Dowdle, passed from this life between acceptance and confirmation of terms. There was an 8-month delay. We learned 10 days ago that…
