“I Read It So You Don’t Have To” Department Doomsday: The End of the World–A View Through Time by Russell Chandler is a meandering, badly held together set of essays about human ideas and experiences with the end of all things. The book is strongest when it dives into modern Christian apocalyptic thought and history. …
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If I live to see next fall Ain’t gonna raise no cabbage at all “Equal People” – D.R.I. “Good Rockin’ Tonight” – Roy Brown “Fingertips” – Emiliana Torrini “Dead Man’s Party” – Oingo Boingo “I Ain’t Never Been Satisfied” – Jim & Marilyn Kweskin “Holiday In Cambodia” – Dead Kennedys “A Taste Of Honey” – …
The Truth Won’t Set You Free Department I follow Ralph Waldo Emerson’s dictum to not read books less than a year old for two reasons, and the second is not laziness. Caligula For President proved (in both senses) the second reason, because reading this book now convulses and repulses in a way it could not …
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Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel. Psalm 2:9 [KJV] Aria: “If God Be For Us Who Can Be Against Us?” – Handel’s Messiah “Basketball Jones” – Cheech & Chong “Road to Joy” – Bright Eyes “Theme From Club Foot” – Club Foot …
“I Read It So You Don’t Have To” Department I learned many things from Bound For Murder, the 3rd scrapbooking mystery in the series by the pseudonymous Laura Childs. In the end section devoted to scrapbooking tips and recipes I discovered that you can mix mango, cilantro, olive oil with red and green peppers and …
“See America Right” – The Mountain Goats “The Lyre Of Orpheus” – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds “The Thrill Is Gone” – B.B. King & Tracy Chapman “Oh! Sweet Nuthin’” – The Velvet Underground “Damaged Goods” – Gang Of Four “I Drink” – Mary Gauthier “Life As A Rehearsal” – Minutemen “You’ll Have Time” …
Stupid, stupid, not so bright, Leaving on the lights at night. What masochistic fantasy Absolves my sin ‘gainst synergy? Killing dolphins in the sound With wasted oil clawed from the ground, Power purposed to gladden lives Instead spewed forth to darken skies. With every heedless step I make Scores of living beings break. With each …
A Psalmfor the Master of Music, and Leonard, if he’s still hereWho can make fun of God?Is not His sense of humor apparent to all?The platypus, mucus, the big toe,Do they not proclaim the Lord’s laughter? Who can mock the vast oceans?Or belittle the mighty forests?If I laugh at the least of God’s creatures,Does the …
My heart would acheIf it started beating.The thaw is hatedBy the winter.Against the uncaring outsideA vicious coldnessForms its ineffective shield.There will be no spring.
(for Jane, on her 50th) Life’s difficult path makes us travelBetween the weight of woes and insensate matter.Upon reality’s anvil spirits become gravelWhile pressing cares many souls will shatter. A maddening task, to navigate betwixt the twoAnd not merely survive, but truly live,For too sane a view washes the colors flat,Erasing the beauty that life …
