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Holder must go
I’m a longtime supporter of PrezObama, and no fan of FoxNews. But the DOJ is shredding the Constitution and I’m pissed. #HolderMustGo — Pat Worden (@WordsmithWorden) May 23, 2013
Petro Wodkins takes the Pis
Artist Petro Wodkins is persona non grata in Brussels this week, for what he did to Mannekin Pis. The peeing statue is a cultural icon for Belgians, and has been since the early 17th century. (It commemorates, by the way, … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Belgium, Brussels, Mannekin Pis, Petro Wodkins, sculpture, what is culture?
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Desperate for miracles in Cleveland
A weird disorientation, a juxtaposition, happens when your local news goes national. Most news, alas, is horrific; so when you’re sharing your local horrors with the national audience, the disorientation probably isn’t as noticable. You’re probably just lost in anguish. … Continue reading
Bleeding Heart flower, deconstructed
Pardon the brevity. It’s a gorgeous day where I am, and I hope you’re enjoying yours as much as I am mine. Rather than wasting any of yours and my most precious commodity on lots and lots of blahblahblah, I … Continue reading
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RIP George Jones (Sept. 12, 1931 – April 26, 2013)
Might be strange, maybe even inappropriate, to start off an obituary like this one by saying I’m not the world’s biggest country-music fan. Just happens to be true, though. No disrespect intended to the country music world, and its fans, … Continue reading
Boom, another book drops
Book drop day. Dropping into an online bookmonger near you, my novella-turned-ebook The Plug and Play Life premiers today. Timeslips, parallel universes, and the abusive psychology of endless searching—all in the format of an extra-longish short story, or a bite-sized … Continue reading
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We ARE Boston
They clearly don’t know us. And that’s to their disadvantage. One imagines they fancy themselves tactically competent, and militarily able. But if they won’t, or can’t, know their enemy—us, the people and nation they’ve chosen for their enemy—then they are … Continue reading
If I announce it publicly, that means I can’t punk out
#LetTheGamesBegin #amwriting sequel Voracious II, “Rapacious,” now outlined w/scene one in the can. Woohoo! TheyAreVoracious.com — Pat Worden (@WordsmithWorden) April 13, 2013
Trash to treasure
The world sends us garbage. We send back music. That’s the tagline for LandfillHarmonic, which is both an ongoing urban experiment in recycling, and an indie-movie project currently seeking crowd-sourced funding via Kickstarter (as of this writing they’ve received pledges … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, culture, Jennifer L. Worden, Kickstarter, LandfillHarmonic, Michelangelo, Paraguay, The Recycled Orchestra, upcycling
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Pablo Neruda and the unquiet grave
In the wave-strike over unquiet stones the brightness bursts and bears the rose and the ring of water contracts to a cluster to one drop of azure brine that falls. O magnolia radiance breaking in spume, magnetic voyager whose death … Continue reading
RIP Roger Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013)
We’re all film critics, right? Meaning no disrespect to that profession, but really, as long as we’re all seeing films, we’re all critiquing them. That leads to the question, what makes one film critic better than another? It’s thoroughly subjective, … Continue reading
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Cthulhu on Etsy
This is one Great Old One that’s everywhere. Including, prominently, the ‘net’s best clearinghouse for cottage crafts: Etsy. Every time the dreams and the drums have brought me back to Cthulhu (see here here and here), I’ve warned you how … Continue reading
