This week’s essay of the week is the Mowing of the Field by Hilaire Belloc.
Essay of the Week: 11/23/08-11/29/08
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Category Archives: Art
The War in Afghanistan Comes To Life In These Pictures
Poem of the Week: 11/16/08-11/22/08
This week’s poem of the week is We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Poem of the Week: 11/9/08-11/15/08
This week’s poem of the week is Israfel by Edgar Allan Poe.
Rant of the Week: 11/9/08-11/15/08
This week’s rant of the week is this pod cast from Joel Dueck.
Poem of the Week: 11/2/08-11/8/08
This week’s poem of the week is Epicoene from Ben Jonson
Poem of the Week: 10/26/08-11/1/08
This week’s poem of the week is The Last Pain by William Empson because it has been a while since we have allowed a godless skeptic to have his say in the poetry section.
Berkeley Breathed explains why he is quitting
“Bloom County” had five times the edge of the work I do now. In 1986 I had a cockroach scream, “Reagan sucks!” in print size that took up the entire cartoon box. Nobody blinked — 1,000 newspapers, quiet as a mouse. Now I draw a woman wearing a Muslim scarf, and the frantic publisher of the Washington Post Co. is on the phone at 9 p.m. telling me — I am not making this up — to adjust my character’s hair so she doesn’t look too unkempt.
Fear doesn’t so much rule the wood pulp news industry. More like pee-on-themselves existential terror.
Poem of the Week: 10/19/08-10/25/08
This week’s poem of the week is Rich Mullen’s song Creed. In an ironical way, it goes along nicely with this week’s essay.
A Rich Mullins Concert
This is well worth watching. At first, it does not seem like it because the sound quality is so low, but the longer it goes on the better it gets. It is amazing to see all the different instruments Rich Mullins plays. This is the start….
You can find the second here. After that follow the links.