I think it better that in times like these A poet’s mouth be silent, for in truth We have no gift to set a statesman right; He has had enough of meddling […]
The Rest is Silence
So we’ll go no more a roving…
So, we’ll go no more a roving So late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, And the moon be still as bright. For the sword outwears its sheath, […]
S&R Honors: Terry Jones
Gavin Chait Terry Jones: Monty Python star dies aged 77 Cat White NOOOOOOOO! Now there was a Scrogue.
On New Year’s Eve, 2019
Happy New Year! Guardedly, of course… On New Year’s Eve I always get weird. I think about my failures, for there’ve been more of those than successes. I think about my wife, […]
Christmas Eve, 2019
Yeah, happy, happy, happy and all that shit… The blade runner time didn’t start this year, no flying cars, but we have more artificial people than ever. Many of them are running […]
Frank liked to talk on Miramar…
But I often scream, long and loud, from the dark depths within a naïve man who still mourns the death of the American Dream, and stands guard over the lilies and crocuses […]
South Africa: losing home
This was protest theatre. Expressing pain and hope through art. I visited one of my favourite coffee haunts here in Marseille. The barista is a young French Canadian woman and I mentioned […]
Burden us with white men: L’Etranger
Burden Us with White Men — Sent forth the worst who breed — Bind our souls to exile Captive to serve their greed; To wait in heavy harness, On gammoned kakistos — […]
We need a better language for nature
Unsolicited Book Reviews: Horizon, by Barry Lopez; Underland, by Robert Macfarlane There are any number of ways to begin this review. I could discuss how our language of “Nature” is fundamentally exploitative–that […]
Scholars & Rogues Honors Our 100th Scrogue: Leonardo Da Vinci
Writers, artists, journalists, educators, historians, scientists, engineers … and dreamers of every stripe – all have reason to revere the legacy of the archetypal Renaissance Man. S&R is proud to honor Leonardo […]
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