Formatting angst
I thought I was finished with my work on formatting the poetry book by Gerard. I sent the PDF to the printer a couple of days ago – hooray! – and got back a proof that alas, didn’t look quite … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Arts
Only the lonely
The guy who made this video, Chris, has a channel in which he goes around spotting people who look interesting to him, and he talks to them and offers to take their photos. Here’s one: And now for some music … Continue reading →
The march of time – and my neo photo
It’s hard to believe, but it’s been seven-plus years since I put up my present neo-apple photo. That makes it outdated, although I like to think I haven’t changed that much (although the apple has; but that can be replaced). … Continue reading →
Spambot of the day; poem of the day
This seemed like a most unusual spambot, with a rather elegant and “literary” sound to it: The landlady sobbing and wailing at her forlorn condition like a peasant woman. So I looked it up, and sure enough, it’s from this … Continue reading →
Poetry, and dapper Gerard
I’m finished editing Gerard’s poetry book, and the cover’s being designed as well. What’s left? Printing it and distributing it, and there are decisions to be made about those things, too. Last time a friend did the mailings, but that … Continue reading →
Book “bans” in schools
The left loves to distort language in order to mislead the public. You might say it’s one of their favorite tactics, and it’s very effective. One good example is the morphing of the term “illegal aliens” to “illegal immigrants” to … Continue reading →
“Some men just want to watch the world burn”
That’s a famous line from the movie The Dark Knight: It’s a description of the pure chaotic nihilistic impulse. I think that tells us something about Antifa, and also certain murderers whose motives we know little about such as the … Continue reading →
I’ve been working on Gerard’s poetry book …
… and although I’m very close to finished, I recently hit an extremely frustrating formatting snag. Formatting the essay book wasn’t easy, but it was a piece of cake compared to formatting poetry. The settings that purport to be appropriate … Continue reading →
Kimmel, TV, and government coercion
The Jimmy Kimmel brouhaha has many elements to it. For example, the left sees the opportunity to frame it as the Trump administration unfairly pressuring the network to drop Kimmel because it didn’t like his remarks, and succeeding in getting … Continue reading →
Details emerge on Tyler Robinson, the Kirk assassination suspect
[NOTE: I already have put up this post about the suspect’s capture.] The story is worthy of literature, although there’s no Dostoevsky or Truman Capote around to write it: Robinson was turned in after his father recognized him in photos … Continue reading →
Songs with dance as metaphor
There are tons of songs about dancing, for obvious reasons. But that’s not the subject matter of this post – songs about dance for the sake of dance. This is about songs that use dance as a larger metaphor for … Continue reading →
Robert Frost on justice and mercy
Recently commenter “Selfy” linked to this article and offered the following quote from it: Mr. Rigney echoes this critique of systemic racism but reserves most of his ire for feminism, which he blames for many of empathy’s ills. Because women … Continue reading →