Video – “The Endless Night: A Valentine to Film Noir,” by RubyTuesday717 Song: “Angel” by Massive Attack (h/t Andrew Sullivan and j-walk blog)
Eating Poetry (XI) – “These Bloody Days Have Broken My Heart”
These bloody days have broken my heart. My lust, my youth did them depart, And blind desire of estate. Who hastes to climb seeks to revert. Of truth, circa Regna tonat. A popular term in literary and cultural scholarship is “intersection.” Scholars have interests in intersections – the conceptual points at which two or more […]
How We Lived on It (15)
Music: Protège-Moi/”Protect Me from What I Want,” by Placebo Video: aylakadam21
Eating Poetry* (X)
Shopping for Pomegranates at Wal-Mart on New Year’s Day by Campbell McGrath Beneath a ten-foot-tall apparition of Frosty the Snowman with his corncob pipe and jovial, over-eager, button-black eyes, holding, in my palm, the leathery, wine-colored purse of a pomegranate, I realize, yet again, that America is a country about which I understand everything and […]
How We Lived on It (14) – In the Painted Room
Music: “In the Painted Room,” by Karenn Gibson Roc, from the album Touching the Soul Video: Phil Roc: Label: Lemon Grass Music