. The first clip below gives us Walter Huston as Judson Hammond, President of the United States in the 1933 Gabriel Over the White House, from Gregory La Cava. It is a typically idealized, absurdly stilted version, from the time, of American democracy. Its president confronts the film version of the real “Bonus Army” that […]
Eating Poetry (XXVII) – Postcard
. from somewhere… Postcard Margaret Atwood I’m thinking about you. What else can I say? The palm trees on the reverse are a delusion; so is the pink sand. What we have are the usual fractured coke bottles and the smell of backed-up drains, too sweet, like a mango on the verge of rot, which […]
The Life with Death of Steve Jobs
. I was going to post on another topic today. Everyone is writing and talking about Steve Jobs, as they should be, but there was no call for me to add more of the same. I’ve read a lot of what has been written, though, and it occurred to me what part of the impact […]
On Your Leaving
. William Wallis is my fellow contributing poetry editor at West magazine. Bill was born in the American South and educated at Hendrix College, Southern Illinois University, the University of Nebraska (Ph.D.in Literary Criticism and Creative Writing, 1972), and the Hanover Conservatory (Opera Performance). Between 1978 and 1985, he worked as a stage director, then as a […]
CineFile: To Serve Man
. Yesterday’s Carl Sagan post about the self-centeredness of humans amid a universe not made for us inevitably (don’t you think) led me to think of a classic Twilight Zone episode. Related articles CineFile – Nobody’s Fool (sadredearth.com) A new ‘Cosmos’ will be on TV (cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com) Carl Sagan Explains Time Dilation [Video] (geeksaresexy.net) CineFile – […]