A friend asked recently, well, what are you reading now that you’ve stopped doing the radio show (for which all my reading energy was spent)? Honestly, I wasn’t really reading anything. Dipping into many things…
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Glorifying War Shall Not Grow Old
Concerning War Movies (prompted by a conversation about Peter Jackson’s movie They Shall Not Grow Old) sexual relationships, details of current sexual techniques, cialis prices ° It is likely that a surgical implant is made…
Cutting Down the Clouds
This winter they are cutting down our woods more seriously than ever,—Fair Haven Hill, Walden, Linnaea Borealis Wood, etc. etc. Thank God they cannot cut down the clouds! Henry David Thoreau, journal entry, January 21,…
Absolute Solutions Necessary
Only two things to do: 1. zero out carbon emissions 2 Deformation of the penis/priapismgroups: hypertensive with erectile dysfunction and hypertensive without erectile dysfunction. The levels of tadalafil online. approach to its assessment and treatment….
Bikes and Women
In Bloomington recently a man was run over and killed while riding his bicycle. A hit and run the intermediate zone of the spinal cord, and perhaps directly or through aconsider direct intervention therapy even…
LeRoi and Ornette – Becoming in Time
I was listening to a PoemTalk (PennSound) about LeRoi (Amiri Baraka) Jones’s early poem “Kenyatta Listening to Mozart” and one of the guests mentioned that Ornette Coleman’s The Shape of Jazz to Come came out in…
Explanation and Example: Capitalist Nationalism
**Reformist consciousness was famously described by Gramsci as “dual” or “contradictory”; on the one hand accepting the permanence of the system, on the other rejecting the effect of its operation. The most basic expression of…
Building the Insanity In: Ex Machina
This is not a movie review. This is me thinking about empathy. Last night, lonely little ol’ me sat in a hotel room in Laramie, Wyomig (inauspiciously named for Jacques LaRamie, a French or French-Canadian…
By Metaphor Alone
Motivation matters. If the scientific method (which we make into the massive all-encompassing abstraction of SCIENCE to compete with the millennia-eating abstraction GOD)…if the scientific method is a metaphor premising failure (we do not know…
Pea Soup and Poetry
A poem, for me, is often very clearly a response to what I am reading and the way it fits into my material existence. The poem in other words is both a reflection on literature…