Tag: david
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Wednesday Words: Henry David Thoreau
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.” –Henry David Thoreau
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War Poems For National Poetry Month: David Kreiger, Greeting Bush In Baghdad
Greeting Bush in Baghdad by David Krieger “This is a farewell kiss, you dog.” — Muntader al-Zaidi You are a guest in my country, unwanted surely, but still a guest. You stand before us waiting for praise, but how can we praise you? You come after your planes have rained death on our cities. Your […]
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Best Damn Quotes #12: Henry David Thoreau on Materialism
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. –Henry David Thoreau
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Friday Morning Rock & Roll Idol: Girl In A Coma
Art, in its multitudinous forms, rewards our attention every once in a while, and all too rarely, with small beautiful moments where thrill meets surprise–I find them most regularly in poems, but also in poems, paintings, and even in pop songs and punk rock. Such was the case with the little Texas band Girl In […]
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Shameless Filet O’Fish/ Life Aquatic Rip-Off
Has everyone seen the new-ish Filet O’Fish Commercial that rips off one of my all-time favorite movies, Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou? Bad enough that this wonderfully quirky, subtle piece of off-beat cinematic brilliance is being draped in ugly commercialism, the Golden Arch-Villains employ a snotty, superior, hipsterish ironic tone to the […]
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