2013-07-05 17:25
After years of using Blogger, I've finally migrated over to Wordpress. My new blog url is http://michaelborshuk.wordpress.com and at some point I will be taking down any content that e… Read More
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2013-03-12 19:09
"The artist and the politician stand at opposite poles. The artist enhances life by his prolonged concentration upon it, while the politician emphasizes the impersonal aspect of life by his… Read More
2013-02-24 05:44
2013-02-21 06:52
I mean, really, how were any of us to know about that warm, soulful secret you've been keeping for years? Read More
2013-02-09 01:11
2013-01-03 18:49
"Identities are the names we give to the different ways we are positioned by, and position ourselves within, the narratives of the past."--Stuart Hall Read More
2012-10-29 04:48
Grief redux..."It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoo… Read More
2012-10-27 19:13
"On the contrary, he was perhaps too wary, too persistently on the lookout for diabolical pitfalls, too painfully alert lest his erratic surroundings (unpredictable America) inveigle him int… Read More
2012-10-04 03:47
...baseball has a Triple Crown winner. And it's my man, Miguel Cabrera, hero of my beloved Detroit Tigers.Go Tigers! Read More
2012-08-09 00:25
"Are we to grow used to the idea that every man relives ancient torments, which are all the more profound because they grow comic with repetition? That human existence should repeat it… Read More
2012-08-03 00:35
If you're a film enthusiast like me, and if you don't live under a rock, you've likely seen the trailer posted below for auteur savant Quentin Tarantino's new film, Django Unchained, du… Read More
2012-07-21 15:54
"...I feared I should not be able to write, from mere memory, a statement so minute and connected as to have the appearance of that truth it would really possess, barring only the natur… Read More
2012-07-03 08:16
A cri du coeur times five:Love always. xo Read More
2012-06-07 15:18
"Bitterness leads to cancer which leads to death and I have too much work to do to have time for any of that."--John Carlos Read More
2012-06-06 16:50
Adam Yauch (5 August 1964 - 4 May 2012)It's been a month now since Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys died, felled by cancer at the tragically young age of 47. While the media panegyrics h… Read More
2012-05-30 00:28
This past weekend I appeared on the public radio program, The New Jazz Archive, produced by Interlochen Public Radio out of Michigan, and hosted by Jeff Haas. This week's episode was o… Read More
2012-05-01 04:29
National Poetry Month, Day 30.The MessageIt's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonderHow I keep from going underIt's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonderHow I keep from going unde… Read More
2012-04-28 21:06
National Poetry Month, Day 28.My Little DreamsI’m folding up my little dreams Within my heart tonight,And praying I may soon forget The torture of their sight.F… Read More
2012-04-27 19:20
National Poetry Month, Day 27 (And in honor of International Jazz Day!)Listening to Sonny Rollins at the Five SpotThere will be many other nights likebe standing here with someone, som… Read More
2012-04-26 18:42
National Poetry Month, Day 26.The Great FigureAmong the rainand lightsI saw the figure 5in goldon a redfire truckmovingtenseunheededto gong clangssiren howlsand wheels rumblingthrough the da… Read More
2012-04-25 20:01
National Poetry Month, Day 25.Gertrude SteinCurieof the laboratoryof vocabularyshe crushedthe tonnageof consciousnesscongealed to phrasesto extracta radium of the word --Mina Loy Read More
2012-04-24 22:18
National Poetry Month, Day 24.Be DrunkYou have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it—it's the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and… Read More
2012-04-24 00:46
National Poetry Month, Day 23.somewhere I have never travelled,gladly beyondsomewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyondany experience,your eyes have their silence:in your most frail gestu… Read More
2012-04-24 00:41
National Poetry Month, Day 22.Black ArtPoems are bullshit unless they areteeth or trees or lemons piledon a step. Or black ladies dyingof men leaving nickel heartsbeating them down. Fuck poe… Read More
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