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2016-03-19 18:53
Rep. Peter King (R-NY), when asked by George Stephanopoulos for one recommendation President Obama could implement that would make the country safer, suggested, "One main thing would be, jus… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
I closed out 2009 with one last run in the rain and the dark and was exhilarated. As Jacques Derrida said of deconstruction, it is in some sense a pleasurable experience. In the evening I re… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
The rain turned to sleet yesterday afternoon and snow on into the night. Big T was closing up Tulsa Runner at 4 when a car pulled up before we could get away, a fellow who remembered he want… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Reviews are best taken with a sizable grain of salt, always bearing in mind the source. The review in Willamette Week, where I typically see films differently than that publication's reviewe… Read More
2009-12-24 18:05
note to the unwary: The next few posts will be strictly journal type entries.Trani was waiting for me at the Tulsa airport when I arrived last night a bit after 9 p.m. It was a long day of t… Read More
2009-12-21 05:06
I am listening to young Joni Mitchell, "Free Man in Paris," and thinking about retrograde flowerpots, doorknobs, and a garden with Japanese clocks when a fellow shows up looking a lot like a… Read More
2009-12-16 05:09
high pointsSan Francisco in JanuaryPortland International Film FestivalTrani's Memorial Day weekend visitReconnecting with my childhood friend Mendal Bouknight, who contacted me after coming… Read More
2009-12-11 14:27
Americans now seem to be largely ruled by passion and ignorance. Most of the public does not read anything of value. Television shows like "24" constitute their image of foreign affairs. The… Read More
2009-12-11 04:38
He went to his desk, picked up a file folder, flipped through the sheets of paper, thought in a delirium of wild optimism maybe some of the poems were almost pretty good. Yet what was there… Read More
2009-12-02 02:29
The December 2009 First Wednesday Poetry & Wine Tasting sponsored by Oregon Literary Review and Blackbird Wine Shop featuresMichael ShayRogers TruaxRic VranaDavid Matthews2 December 2009… Read More
2009-12-02 02:29
The December 2009 First Wednesday Poetry & Wine Tasting sponsored by Oregon Literary Review and Blackbird Wine Shop featuresMichael ShayRogers TruaxRic VranaDavid Matthews2 December 2009… Read More
2009-11-16 16:48
I suppose I ought to check out Malcolm Gladwell one of these days. My sense from reviews and excerpts is that I would find him occasionally thought provoking yet annoyingly given to superfic… Read More
2009-11-15 19:23
I may be the only person I know who likes Harold Bloom. Even so, some among you may enjoy Yahweh Meets R. Crumb (The New York Review of Books, Vol. 56, Number 19, 3 December 2009; alas, only… Read More
2009-11-13 02:22
The December 2009 First Wednesday Poetry & Wine Tasting sponsored by Oregon Literary Review and Blackbird Wine Shop featuresMichael ShayRogers TruaxRic VranaDavid MatthewsBlackbird Wine… Read More
2009-11-08 19:26
Does poetry matter, and if it does, to whom? Does reading matter? Some of us are more given than others to pose these questions. That this reflects a certain insecurity as much as an inclina… Read More
2009-11-02 21:25
"If something is not done soon about these lawless places [Somalia and Yemen], one or the other may well become the next Afghanistan -- a place where U.S. military intervention was compelled… Read More
2009-11-01 17:52
From Face Value: Dummies for Finance, The Economist, 3 September 2009:“People who want to make a lot of money fast go to work in investment banks, but people who work in commercial ban… Read More
2009-10-25 17:34
Sign Man is a documentary about Jerry Pagane, an artist living in New York City who is one of the only sign men in the country still practicing the craft of gold leaf.The documentary will be… Read More
2009-10-24 00:45
cont'd from Poets Who Matter: John Keats (1795-1821)Keats in his letters speaks of poetry so often and with such fervor we might take him to be one of those people who are caught up in the i… Read More
2009-10-18 20:17
I escaped for a few days to Vancouver (photos), a city where I always feel at ease.I flew up Tuesday morning and returned yesterday. As always, I stayed at The Sylvia Hotel on English Bay at… Read More
2009-10-11 14:56
"I would be careful if I had put my testicles in a blind trust for George W. Bush for eight years." — Joe Scarborough after Rush Limbaugh called him a "neutered, chickified moderate."… Read More
2009-10-05 17:58
The foggy mists of memory hold a vague recollection of coming across the opening lines to John Keats's "Endymion" sometime around sixth grade:A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:Its loveline… Read More
2009-09-30 03:48
The podcast from last night's poetry reading at 3 Friends Coffee house in SE Portland can be found at Caffeinated Art # 63.The evening was a delight thanks to my fellow poets Norval Willey a… Read More
2009-09-27 15:38
"People like Senator [Kit] Bond are implying by their statements that McChrystal should be treated as an equal by the commander in chief and that the president should defer to the opnion of… Read More
2009-09-27 03:05
George Stephanopoulos could have been reading from the Republican talking points memo in Sunday's interview with Barack Obama as he badgered the president about whether the individual mandat… Read More
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