The Stones Are Back
I know I’ve not offered any new writing in a while, and I feel that I owe my Reader an apology. This is unreasonable of me, yet I feel the need to offer an explanation nevertheless. Earlier tonight, Mrs. Likko… Continue Reading
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Clearing Out The Clippings, No. 51
When you look back on a lifetime and think of what has been given to the world by your presence, your fugitive presence, inevitably you think of your art, whatever it may be, as the gift you have made to… Continue Reading
“Losing Everything”, the Carbonite Wedding Ad
Below is a re-post from Hit Coffee from before the whole Rush brouhaha. Given their apparent market weakness, and the possible unsustainability of the company, perhaps the ad could be seen as prescient in a sort of way. — Computer… Continue Reading
Clearing Out The Clippings, No. 50
The world of Greek mythology was not a place of terror for the human spirit. It is true that the gods were disconcertingly incalculable. One could never tell where Zeus’ thunderbolt would strike. Nevertheless, the whole divine company… were entrancingly… Continue Reading
A Spiral & A Rabbit Hole
Regardless of one’s thoughts on the content of Limbaugh’s remarks*, there’s something interesting about gloating over the alleged fallout from a critical response to a critical response that caused fallout for a radio personality. By which I mean, you can’t… Continue Reading
Clearing Out The Clippings, No. 49
In our extremely individualistic society we have come to see isolation and loneliness as akin to ‘the human condition,’ instead of as by-products of a certain kind of social arrangement. — Robert Solomon
Clearing Out The Clippings, No. 48
One always imagines that the days that change one’s life must be marked with something extraordinary in nature—storms and lightning, darkness at noon, and so on. In truth they are indistinguishable from any other, which is one reason we feel… Continue Reading
Importing Quebec
Rick Santorum to Puerto Ricans: “Like any other state, there has to be compliance with this and any other federal law, and that is that English has to be the principal language. There are other states with more than one… Continue Reading
Clearing Out The Clippings, No. 47
The most insidious thing about bondage was how easy it was to grow accustomed to it. – George R.R. Martin
Clearing Out The Clippings No. 46
It is easy to forget how mysterious and mighty stories are. They do their work in silence, invisibly. They work with the internal materials of the mind and self. They become part of you while changing you. Beware the stories… Continue Reading