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Musical Monday: The Pogues
In seventeen days I will finally get to see the Pogues play live. If you are unfamiliar with the band, they are the best Irish rock band of all time, fronted by the ugliest front man of all time. And I will finally see them live. And it will be on St. Patrick’s Day. The ...
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Non-Fiction Sundays: Not Like You
A sliver of moon provides plenty of light—that, and his endless chain of matches and Marlboros illuminate his profile. He inhales hard, the last drag, and flicks the butt in an arc out the window. “Might as well take you back,” he drawls. He starts the truck. It stalls immediately. He curses—You dying fucking pig!—revs ...
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Photographic Saturdays: Klea McKenna
Klea McKenna is an American photographer who is based out of San Francisco, California. She teaches photography at the California College of the Arts, where she received her MFA in photography. You can see more of her work at her website.
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Poetic Friday: “Puppet-Maker,” Charles Simic
In his fear of solitude, he made us. Fearing eternity, he gave us time. I hear his white cane thumping Up and down the hall. I expect neighbors to complain, but no. The little girl who sobbed When her daddy crawled into her bed Is quiet now. It’s quarter to two. On this street of ...
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Screenwriting Thursdays: Memorable Beginnings
Let’s say you’re working on a screenplay: you have the characters figured out, the plot in order, and the rising and falling action perfected. But in general, viewers will formulate an opinion about a movie within the first quarter of the film. Is the beginning to your screenplay memorable? Like the first page of a ...
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Art Wednesdays: Annie French
The daughter of a metallurgist, Annie French was born in Glasgow and studied at the Glasgow School of Art under Fra Newbery and the Belgian Symbolist, Jean Delville. Influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, Aubrey Beardsley and Jessie M King, she developed a style combining vivid colours, curvilinearity of form and almost confetti-like textures. (source) I know, you’re ...
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Prose Tuesdays: The Fates Will Find Their Way
It’s the stuff of fantasies, not of real life. In fantasies, you can get into strangers’ cars. You can have sex with men you don’t know. They’ll love you and pet you and whisper things that high school boys don’t know to whisper. They’ll fall hard for you and do anything you tell them to, ...
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Musical Mondays: Rilo Kiley (and associates)
Rilo Kiley – With Arms Outstretched Rilo Kiley is a Los Angeles Band. Its two lead members, Blake Sennett and Jenny Lewis, were both child actors, and the original drummer (Dave Rock) left the band to pursue a career in film production/writing/editing. As a band, Rilo Kiley has achieved considerable success. As individuals in a ...
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Photographic Saturdays: Minor White
Minor White was an American photographer who began taking photographs at the age of 30 and continued until his death in 1976.
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Poetic Friday: “Conversation with Comrade Lenin,” Vladimir Mayakovsky
Awhirl with events, packed with jobs one too many, the day slowly sinks as the night shadows fall. There are two in the room: I and Lenin- a photograph on the whiteness of wall. The stubble slides upward above his lip as his mouth jerks open in speech. ...
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Screenwriting Thursdays: A Non-Boring Documentary
If most documentaries make you think of grade school days when your teacher was sick, think of Encounters at the End of the World as the really kooky substitute teacher who decided to tell you his opinion on your curriculum. At the center, it is a science and travel documentary about Antarctica. But Werner Herzog ...
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Art Wednesdays: Kyle T. Webster, Illustrator
An editorial illustrator I quite enjoy is Kyle T Webster. To be fair, he’s a lot more than that, but I imagine editorial illustration is the context in which one is most likely to have seen his work (NYT, New Yorker, The Atlantic, etc). To view more, click the cut!