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(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, September 7, 2021
Ed Asner: The Grouchy 'Marxist': RIP Book Review: Ed Asner: The Grouchy 'Marxist': RIP. Ed Asner died last week, but his often-hilarious and important 2017 book, The Grouchy Historian lives on.
Series: Book Reviews (93 Articles, 105691 views), TV Series Reviews (11 Articles, 12992 views)

SHARE        Wednesday, April 26, 2023
The Australian Crawl: A Fiction Here's a story about two lovers who inspired by a viewing of a Sydney staging of Genet's The Maids, starring Cate Blanchett and Isabelle Huppert (true story) decide to swim the annual Rottnest Channel Swim (real event) when they learn that the event will feature a Genet play on the island named by Dutch to reflect it seemed like a rat's nest (true according to Wikipedia).

SHARE        Monday, August 14, 2023
Book Review: The Last Honest Man by James Risen and Thomas Risen Book Review of the new Risen book: The Last Honest Man, a biography of Frank Church's life and politucal work. Excellent read.

SHARE        Saturday, May 27, 2023
Kissinger at 100 (a prose poem) Henry Kissinger celebrates his 100th. Here is a poem that remembers stuff.
Series: My Poetry (463 Articles, 487340 views)

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, January 3, 2021
Con Fusion Reigns MEDIA REVIEW: Recent articles in science raise an alarm of the falsification of the virtues presumed by scientists. The extolling of the wonders of Cold Fusion come back to save us from the brink are not helpful to readers nor a favor to scientists. We;re beyond alchemy and high priests and should keep it that way.

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, September 15, 2022
ESSAY: T.S. Eliot and Consciousness Here is a reflection of the work of T. S. Eliot, one of my favorite poets. I dig his religiosity and call to the spirit and his aesthetic consciousness, which took many forms. He was a poet, but also a philosopher. And an a**hole.
Series: Essays (5 Articles, 5470 views)

SHARE        Monday, September 4, 2023
Book Review: Indigenous Continent Book Review: Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America by Pekka Hämäläinen. An epic narrative that tells an alternate tale of America's beginnings. Good read.

SHARE        Saturday, October 23, 2021
Book Review: The American Way: Stories of Invasion "The American Way: Stories of Invasion" edited by Ra Page & Orsola Casagrande. 20 fictional and factual mergings to tell the story of America's incursions of the last 70 years. Good read, highly recommended. [Long Piece] .
Series: Book Reviews (93 Articles, 105691 views)

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, June 13, 2022
American Pie 50 Years Later: A Prose-Poem Review The weekly freeverser tackles the mighty "American Pie." by Don McLean. Does it hold up? Here's my review in poetry form.
Series: My Poetry (463 Articles, 487340 views)

SHARE        Thursday, June 29, 2023
In the Quackquack Mire of the Run-Up to Poem about the Wagner Group. Tubers and tubas. Sagging bagpipes and violins you die by.
Series: My Poetry (463 Articles, 487340 views), AI Poetry and Images (28 Articles, 30060 views)

SHARE        Tuesday, October 4, 2022
Podcast 9: Black Suffering with James Henry Harris: Paul Ricoeur's Oneself as Another This is the 9th podcast with James Henry Harris discussing Black Suffering in America, discussions based on Harris's book of the same name. Today we discuss Paul Ricoeur and his book Oneself as Another, and its application to the Black experience in the dominating world of whites.
Series: Podcasts and Video Interviews (22 Articles, 25319 views)

SHARE        Saturday, July 3, 2021
Film Review: One Night in Miami Film Review: One Night in Miami. "A Topical Storm in Miami." A fine ensemble cast brings four African-American heroes together for one night in a Miami motel room, following Cassius Clay's win over Sonny Liston. Based on the stage play of the same name by Kemp Powers.
Series: Film Review (42 Articles, 67300 views)

SHARE        Friday, June 30, 2023
The Deep Dark State We're In A look at the deep state from Ike to DARPA. Hope you like it. I did.
Series: Essays (5 Articles, 5470 views)

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, August 31, 2020
Changing Light Bulbs in the Cosmos with Charles Simic Book Review: Come Closer and Listen by Charles Simic. The latest "batch" from my favorite contemporary poet. The former American poet laureate is at his best here. Great juxtapositional humor.
Series: Poetry Reviews (9 Articles, 9367 views)

(36 comments) SHARE        Saturday, November 7, 2020
Trump: The Sad Facts Are In The election is over and the monster has lost both popular and electoral and will have to pack up now. Someone should count the silverware and bedsheets before he goes. Here's my take on the process.

SHARE        Tuesday, January 24, 2023
SERIES REVIEW: Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street The new Netflix series is another in several attempts to capture the essence of Bernie Madoff's depravity on Wall Street.
Series: TV Series Reviews (11 Articles, 12992 views)

SHARE        Saturday, March 18, 2023
St. Patrick's Day Remembrance (2023) St.Patrick and protests of yesteryear seen afresh today,
Series: My Poetry (463 Articles, 487340 views)

SHARE        Sunday, December 26, 2021
Sonnet: The War for Hearts and Minds The daily sonnet today grooves on the rubble we have made of consciousness. Handing our souls over to the creatures from the blackest lagoon. Emphasis on goon.
Series: Sonnets (353 Articles, 373822 views), My Poetry (463 Articles, 487340 views)

(6 comments) SHARE        Saturday, October 9, 2021
You're Torturing Me You're Torturing Me: Thop It. The truth about torture. And poetry.
Series: Op-Eds (65 Articles, 73459 views)

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, December 14, 2022
Civilization and Its Malcontents: A Talk with Translator Ulrich Baer Interview with Ulrich Baer, author of a new translation of Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud. Discussion morphs to Nietzsche and Rilke and Lou Salome.

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