This week’s poem of the week is Locksley Hall.
Poem of the Week:6/28/09-7/4/09
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Category Archives: Art
Essay of the Week:6/28/09-7/4/09
An explanation of why writing novels is an old man’s game is this week’s essay of the week.
Pigeons can be trained to like "good" art
This study reported on Discovery.com says that pigeons can be trained to pick out art their handlers think is good.
I think this is excellent news. Now we can put pigeons in school and let the kids run around in the park, and everyone will be better off. The kids can learn better things than mimickery and the pigeons can do as they are told.
Shine, Perishing Republic
You have to be careful of people who think that history cycles. A circle comes back to where it started. A swirl, on the other hand, has a beginning and an end. But a circle and a swirl are very similar so a description of one can greatly resemble the other.
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Robinson-Jeffers/3011
Poem of the Week: 6/21/09-6/27/09
This week’s poem of the week is Waiting for the Barbarians. One would imagine that it loses something being translated into English, but there are only so many good English poets.
Impossible bandsaw work
Dangerous as all get out, but cool none the less.
Links for Today
A hobbit like house. Worth checking out if you want to do things on the cheap.
Another perspective on “March 14” victory in Lebanon.
Its smarter then buying dollars. But will it end well?
Poem of the Week: 6/7/09-6/13/09
The Ode To Joy by Friedrich von Schiller is this week’s poem of the week. Mostly so that our audience will know what Beethoven’s famous Symphony No. 9 was all about.
Poem of the Week: 5/31/09-6/6/09
This week’s poem of the week is Vivien’s Song by Lord Tennyson. It will help you to understand why we choose it as poem of the week if you remember that Vivien’s goal in Lord Tennyson account was to trick and betray Merlin.
Poem of the Week: 5/24/09-5/30/09
This week’s poem of the week is To Be or Not to Be from Shakespeare’s Hamlet.