pigs and poems Post Source: www.juliangough.com Posted: Nov 23 2008 15:52:14
Below is a guest posting by the American poet James P. Lenfestey . He knows a lot about pigs, and a lot about poetry. I’d go so far as to say, he taught me everything I know about stealing pigs . Sadly, he only taught me it after I’d stolen them...
"Frankly, Julian -- that was an unconvincing pignapping -- an activity with a long and honorable list of common practices in ...... [Show More]
Van Jones was at the First Congregational Church in Oakland last Tuesday, ostensibly to talk about his green-for-all campaign , the subject of his recent bestseller The Green Collar Economy. But seeing as how he was back home, in the heart of his own congregation and community, he reveled in the show he put on and it was like we all had backstage passes. With his wife and two children in the audi...... [Show More]
Looking for a great, inexpensive gift for your mother or someone special in your life? Following are 11 sure-fire winners. The catch? You’ve got to channel your sensitive side and put a little time in, but the results will be a gift people can’t stop talking about.
1. A Book Of Quotes . During my senior year in college, I was virtually penniless but wanted to give my then boyfriend, no...... [Show More]
a personal moon Post Source: littlebirdsings.wordpress.com Posted: Nov 14 2008 00:58:11
Thanks to one of my heroes, Midori Snyder and her blog In the Labyrinth for bringing this lovely, whimsical and magical artistry to my attention. She writes that: “Last year, two Russian artists, Leonid Tishkov and Boris Bendikov (click if you can read Russian…) created an illuminating art show, by creating large light sculptures of a quarter moon, and suggesting, somewhat ...... [Show More]
rach :
My friend Shira sent this to me this weekend. Read the full thing here .
if a girl likes me a lot and starts getting real nervous and suddenly begins asking me funny questions and looks sad if I give the wrong answers and she says things like, “Do you think it’s going to rain?” and I say, “It beats me,” and she says, “Oh,” and looks a little sad at the clear ...... [Show More]
its raining in love Post Source: adamadam.tumblr.com Posted: Nov 10 2008 20:51:11
tumbledore :
by Richard Brautigan
if a girl likes me a lot and starts getting real nervous and suddenly begins asking me funny questions and looks sad if I give the wrong answers and she says things like, “Do you think it’s going to rain?” and I say, “It beats me,” and she says, “Oh,” and looks a little sad at the clear blue California sky, I think : Thank God, it...... [Show More]
It’s a difficult headline to walk past isn’t it? You can read the story here . Two questions: 1) Since when have TESCO had chimneys. 2) Police said that because the man was naked he was taken to hospital as a precaution. Why? If he was wearing underpants would he be taken to the hospital as a precaution? What about pants and socks? Where exactly is the li...... [Show More]
The west was getting out of gold,
The breath of air had died of cold,
When shoeing home across the white,
I thought I saw a bird alight.
Looking For A Sunset Bird In Winter...... [Show More]
pledges and poverty Post Source: feeds.feedburner.com Posted: Oct 08 2008 16:34:01
Poverty is a problem the world over, something from which no country is protected, regardless of how supposedly wealthy it is.
And yet through simple repetition, the most obvious and potent images of suffering, beamed in from other continents, have lost some of their power to oppress and challenge. Watching them on the news in the UK we perhaps imagine things are improving.
The world is gettin...... [Show More]
Two girls there are : within the house
One sits; the other, without.
Daylong a duet of shade and light
Plays between these.
Sylvia Plath, Two Daughters of Persephone
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Wolf woman fully dressed
She roams chthonic ruins with the silent intention of a crocodile. Slow beats caress her heart, where her answer is hidden. She dances, extracts her bones, unaware of herself. Her bod...... [Show More]
“And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.” - Late Fragment - A poem by Raymond Carver - American Poems...... [Show More]
Project 86 has cranked out killer album after killer album for the last 10 years. just when I turned the corner on faith, they showed up on the scene and gave me the grace to be me. i.e., having sobered up and settled down, I feared my faith embrace would force me to hold hands with the characteristically pathetic CCM.
thanks be to God I was wrong. hardcore wrong.
each album displays explosi...... [Show More]
"A piece of burned meat wears my clothes, speaks in my voice, dispatches obligations haltingly, or not at all. It is tired of trying to be stouthearted, tired beyond measure." (more) -- Jane Kenyon...... [Show More]
“Do you remember the way the girls
would call out “love you!”
conveniently leaving out the “I”
as if they didn’t want to commit
to their own declarations.” - david berman, “ self-portrait at 28 ” (via meaghano )
i about die every time i re-read this book....... [Show More]
cityscapes Post Source: bluebicicletta.wordpress.com Posted: Aug 19 2008 04:41:18
I’ve been thinking more about squares , rectangles actually. I started seeing rectangles in my head, all lined up like a cityscape. Somewhat unrelatedly, I also started thinking of the e.e. cummings poem that starts:
my love is building a building
around you,a frail slippery
house,a strong fragile house
These drawing have nothing to do with love, but it is interesting to see what c...... [Show More]
Heute vor 63 Jahren warf der US-Atombomber “ Enola Gay ” um 8.15 Uhr und 17 Sekunden die erste Atombombe in einem Krieg über der japanischen Stadt Hiroshima ab. Es starben zwischen 90.000 und 200.000 Menschen sofort und insgesamt, durch die Spätfolgen der radioaktiven Strahlung ca. 240.000 Menschen.
Der folgende Film zeigt die Folgen einer atomaren Explosion auf und illustriert...... [Show More]
In parts 1-4 two weeks ago, I wrote a series of articles quite critical of Barack Obama’s echoing rightwing narrative frames demonizing forms of dissent.
In part 1, "Patriotism Smackdown: Langston Hughes vs. Barack Obama" , I contrasted Langston Hughes’ vision in "Let America Be America Again" . which places the marginalized, demonized and excluded a...... [Show More]
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
(Excerpted from “ Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening “, Robert Frost)
I’m going to take a wild guess here and say that not many of you have become hypothermic while stranded in a snowstorm in the middle of nowhere. (Just for the...... [Show More]
...ut of threatened old-growth woods like mahogany and are sealed with toxic sealants or paints.
Sources:
www.greendaily.com
rapidcityj ournal.com
samsabear. livejourna l.com
ago.mo.gov
www.americ anpoems.co m
www.weboto pia.org...... [Show More]
In Part One of this series, I used Langston Hughes’s poem "Let America Be America Again" to sharpen some of the inconsistencies in Obama’s speech about patriotism. Here, I want to dig deeper into what appears to be a fundamental aspect of what’s wrong with Obama’s vision-his acceptance of righwing mythology about the nature of anti-war activism from the ...... [Show More]
"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." - Samuel Johnson, April 7, 1775.
"In Dr. Johnson’s famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first." - Ambrose Bierce, 1911
Obama’s sudden lunge to the right has many facets to...... [Show More]
vertaling Post Source: ruudronteltap.squarespace.com Posted: Jun 08 2008 11:34:00
E.E. Cummings 1894-1962 ik weet nu hoe jij bent als ik weet nu hoe jij bent als de regen, (die vrezende velden vertroost met een overhand slaapzand. poost met die bleke knuppel van een wind hem laat dansen en bloemen opjagen de lucht in vanzelf sprekende akten van grijpgraag groen licht en verflenzend prilsterfelijk geel ...... [Show More]
what if Post Source: tristanroy.com Posted: May 25 2008 04:38:23
I’m at home over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, spending time with my dog and my family. It’s been a reflective few days, saturated in malaise and thought but not much sleep. As I navigated the landscape of those thoughts late last night I started browsing through my old bookshelf and pulled a number of Shel Silverstein books to browse through, including A Light in the Attic .
...... [Show More]
links for 20080516 Post Source: www.radiationvibe.com Posted: May 16 2008 07:30:59
Italian’s Detention Illustrates Dangers Foreign Visitors Face - New York Times
“They were pretty shocked that the government could do this sort of thing, because it doesn’t happen that often, except to people you never hear about, like Haitians and Guatemalans.”
Portion Size, Then and Now
"When our parents ordered a coffee two decades ago, they weren’t given as ma...... [Show More]
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