Welcome back to day 2 of the S&R Year in Review. Today we tackle some of 2007’s big moments in news and current events. The Invasion and Occupation of Iraq Surpasses the […]
VerseDay: The "Song" of Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Not long ago I was bitching about how utterly banal I think a lot of contemporary poetry is. Shortly thereafter I got a note from scrogue JS O’Brien saying he thought I […]
Laughter yesterday, laughter tomorrow, but … no laughter today
I realised today it has been more than 21 years since I first came across Terry Pratchett. I was only 12 at the time; young, gawky, bookish. His books were like the […]
Scroguely Works: The Arrival
The Arrival, by Shaun Tan, first published October 2007, 128 pages, ISBN 978-0439895293 The dividing line between comic books and graphic novels – for many – seems to lie in the question: […]
Ban books? Ban ideas, ban imagination, ban a future
To ban a book is to ban an idea. Some ideas are good; some are bad. But good and bad are judgments each of us must be free to make — and […]
The controversy surrounding The Golden Compass has all but guaranteed blockbusterhood
I’m an avid reader and movie watcher, and I enjoy the occasional escape into things that aren’t hard to read or understand. This is why I’ve enjoyed the Harry Potter novels and […]
Quotabull
The issue of separating yourself from a harmful environment is a recurring theme in the life of black men. It has nothing to do with football, or Sean Taylor or even sports. […]
Verse Day: an ode to banality and the poetry of consensus
We live in an unfortunate age artistically. There is more freedom than ever, more tools for creation, more outlets to publish and display, but we have largely used this freedom to fetishize […]
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You just heard a Ronald Reagan speech from a president of France. It was an almost out-of-body experience for all of us. — Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) after French President […]
VerseDay: The macabre and fantastic in verse
Poets have the (un)enviable duty to explore the entirety of human experience, from birth to death and everything in between. But in my experience, few poets have tried to fully explore the […]
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