Keats saw a Grecian urn and wrote an ode. Yeats viewed Brueghel's depiction of the fall of Icarus and wrote a gorgeous poem, starting, "About suffering, they were never wrong."
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Not inspired by the Tolkien exhibit: The books are many other stories
posted: Apr 28, 2019.
Keats saw a Grecian urn and wrote an ode. Yeats viewed Brueghel's depiction of the fall of Icarus and wrote a gorgeous poem, starting, "About suffering, they were never wrong."
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Temple Shalom's Hebrew School
posted: Apr 22, 2019.
My girlfriend from high school got me into the habit of reading the obituaries in the Unfunky Scummedrine Gazette. I stopped reading after a bit, as though a certain portion Read more -
Insanity
posted: Apr 19, 2019.
I am concerned about the measles. At this point, the incidence should be decreasing. It is not. And I worry. I don't know if I was ever vaccinated for measles. Read more -
It is better to travel hopefully than to ever arrive
posted: Apr 05, 2019.
April is the month of unfulfilled longing. It is the "cruelest month," it is the month that people "long to be in England," it is the month that gins the
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My life as an English Major
posted: Mar 13, 2019.
On your I-Phone, you no longer have to live in the present. So, incontinent with nostalgia and the path not chosen takes its toll. These thoughts came to mind when
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Update: Crime Scene Cleaner
posted: Mar 03, 2019.
Well, for those dying (hah) for the latest on our basset-faced man of blecch, this week's episode gives us a bit of backstory. Schottke receives a call to clean Read more -
My intellectual life
posted: Feb 25, 2019.
I have a guilty secret. The introspective, introverted bookworm watches television. It's not something I'm proud of. After all, I'm an intellectual. I never exactly learned how to be an Read more -
Gradgrind and the sweatshop approach
posted: Feb 24, 2019.
Numbers, numbers, numbers. The sweatshop manner of profits has tainted all aspects of American industries, including schools (where it always had an affinity (as per Gradgrind in HARD TIMES, Read more -
Is this your penis talking or is it your fantasy?
posted: Feb 10, 2019.
I have been a psychologist for a mighty long time. I'm not bragging, I'm simply stating a fact. I went into this field because I was a curious person with
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Make 'em laugh.
posted: Jan 29, 2019.
Yesterday I went to the NY Premiere of "Rosa Luxembourg," the opera, with music written by Leonard Lehrmann. The libretto consists of letters written by RL to various friends between
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All about the blood flow
posted: Jan 23, 2019.
To all the less than the very young, but not ready for the crypt folk: Do you feel less joie de vivre these days? Just plugging away. Merely alive but Read more -
A true tale of two cities
posted: Jan 05, 2019.
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. It was the age of crystal high rises. It was the age of decrepit cold water flats. It Read more -
Ambivalent Christmas pasts
posted: Jan 04, 2019.
As a Jew growing up in red-necked, blue collar Unfunky Scummedrine, Christmas was all about loneliness and abandonment. My parents did not celebrate Christmas in any fashion. We did not
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The shock of the camera
posted: Dec 23, 2018.
Early this morning, I gave up on sleep. I can only sleep for about two or three hours, then I'm up, then it's sleep for another hour, then I'm up. Read more -
Puff the Magic Dragon
posted: Dec 10, 2018.
On Friday night I saw my significant other, Peter Yarrow, who performed a set at Emanu-El. Oh, Peter Yarrow, my first love. The first record I ever owned was Peter, Read more -
Incontinent nostalgia
posted: Dec 04, 2018.
The other day I asked a girlfriend about her Thanksgiving weekend, where her daughter drove from Florida to New Orleans to pick up her own daughter, then drove the both
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