From the monthly archives:

August 2009

An Adaptation? As Loosely Defined, Perhaps.

August 24, 2009

I was perusing the DVDs at the library last week when I happened upon “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”.  I fondly remembered the film from twenty years ago, so I checked it out.  The kids and I watched it the other night and I was amazed at how much it was influenced by Chinatown, one of [...]

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A Free-Verse Poem from the Past…

August 21, 2009

I remember sweet leaf and fairy-ring full moon In an orchard plump with apples and chaotic trees We stood taking in the smoke and the night Silent but our disquieted minds And I recall clutching at the cool white bricks Of the dormitory wall Pleading with myself not to fall with my head full of [...]

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Aperitif

August 20, 2009

This is a ‘one-pager’ that we do alot for exercises in my writing group. As mentioned in the Short and Sweet post it’s just a sketch. The idea was to write a piece using only one syllable words. He sat back in his chair and played at calm. He clenched the stem of the pipe [...]

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Short and Sweet

August 20, 2009

A few days back I ran across a small paperback my wife had lying around.  It was The Miracle of Languageby Richard Lederer and was published in ’91.  It’s a quick read, musings on English and it’s use but one chapter hit me.  It was “The Case for Short Words”.  The chapter was fittingly brief, only [...]

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“Though this be madness…” (Hamlet II.ii.206)

August 19, 2009

What is madness?  Who are the people that occupy the lunatic fringes of society—those we refer to as crazy, insane, nuts, addled, bonkers, unsound, disturbed, unbalanced, raving, demented, unstable, schizo, nutty, unhinged, loopy, batty, daft, or “non compos mentis”?  What is the difference between someone who is euphemistically deemed “touched” or “eccentric” versus an individual [...]

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