“The Devil in a Convent”/”Le Diable au couvent” was released by Méliès’s Star Film Company in 1899. As its title…
J. Alfred Prufrock, Jr. [A poem loosely inspired by T.S. Eliot’s famous one]
The too-early sun setting from behind these streetsmust at last answer the question—“What is it?” Impossible, that our departuremust take…
The Haunted Curiosity Shop (1901), Walter R. Booth
(I apologize if I already posted about this before, but does that really even matter?) Additional Notes Dating back to…
How to address an editor who makes a change you don’t like
I’m going to completely ignore context here. If someone changed your writing and you don’t like it, it’s your responsibility…
Be Not Afraid [poem, possible song lyrics]
You only live once, at least, to winSo we are the people we’ve been waiting forFind our own and be…
A black hole of Empathy [a poem?]
A black hole of Empathy(on behalf of everyone in America) I’m so over it. I don’t care about them. I…
I answer Quora question ‘Who’s a famous singer whose music is so bad that it genuinely makes you angry?’
Some people would say Tom Waits, but I actually tend to like his stuff, if not love it. No, my…
dispatch from the pulsating dynamo of normalcy [a poem]
This is another one of those signs.I wonder if I’ve been too impatient.Penny for your thoughts and energy and downtime…
“Bawk bawk ba-gawk!” [A Poem]
~Does being positive aid anything? My own reflex is being negative.Besides, optimists drive me up the wall!~ I’m mailing more junk…
Out of the Barrel (A Poem, I Guess)
We ate the last of the coleslawand the last of the brisketand the last of the roast beefand the last…
