Apocalyptic neo-Symbolism. With some tangential comment on the pedestrian state of contemporary poetry.
Widescreen: Seattle Central Library
Jim Booth guest commentary over at Southern Creatives
If you’ve been paying attention you know that our boy Jim Booth recently published a novel. And that it’s really good. And that it presents us with the opportunity to consider fame […]
ArtSunday: open thread
Art? Discuss.
Even better than the real thing: mass media and manufactured beauty
Give me one last dance We’ll slide down the surface of things You’re the real thing Yeah the real thing You’re the real thing Even better than the real thing I figured […]
Can the center hold?: a response to Pastor Dan
Pastor Dan has an absolutely must-read piece on faith and politics over at Street Prophets, and while I feel wholly inadequate for the task of matching the depth of his analysis, he […]
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 […]
Elvis is king…of his destiny, anyway…and that’s worth a lot….
I saw Elvis Costello two nights ago at (interestingly enough) the Booth Amphitheater in Cary, NC (a suburb of Raleigh). It was an excellent show, and if he’d had a better audience, […]
9/11: the end of Postmodernism and the beginning of … what?
My wife and I had recently moved back to Denver from Boston and September 10 had been my first day at my new job with Gronstedt Group. When I got up that […]
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