August 2011
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September 2010
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WatchEastern North Carolina: My. God.
June 2010
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February 2010
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Happy Groundhog Day--for Punxsutawney Phil... →
January 2010
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"A Bad Day for American Democracy" →
Commentators weighing in on the Supreme Court’s decisions today:
Slate:
http://www.slate.com/id/2242209/
and
http://www.slate.com/id/2242208/
NPR also provides a useful timeline for campaign finance reform:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121293380
“In “The Trouble with Poetry,” Billy Collins asks if the time will ever come when poets will have “compared everything in the world / to everything else in the world,” leaving them with nothing to do but sit at their desks with folded hands. He knows that won’t happen, and so do we. For those infected with the need to discover the past, there will always be mysteries pulling us through...
July 2009
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June 2009
2 posts
To begin
How do authors begin their work? How does one chose a single word, sentence, paragraph, or page to properly introduce the amalgamation of thousands of words to come? The words below come from three works and represent three decisions of how to begin.
“My legal name is Alexander Perchov. But all of my many friends dub me Alex, because that is a more flaccid-to-utter version of my legal...
May 2009
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January 2009
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December 2008
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October 2008
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September 2008
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Convocation Address by David Lubin
Disturbing the Peace: Wake Forest and the Arts
David Lubin Convocation Address Sept 18, 2008
In one of the last speeches he gave before he was assassinated, President John F. Kennedy spoke eloquently about the importance of the arts in democracy. The worth of a country, he observed, is inseparable from the quality of its arts, and no nation can be deemed great that does not produce and admire...
August 2008
5 posts
I found this website while looking for an upcoming Avett concert, and I had a serious moment of “Malcovich Malcovich, Maclvoich Malcovich Malcovich.”
Watchlonelysandwich:
David Lynch on Where Ideas Come From
The money quote is towards the end—something about Van Gogh with diarrhea.
via The Morning News
June 2008
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May 2008
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Lynchings
James Allen went throughout the South looking for postcards that had been made to “commemorate” lynchings throughout the American South. His movie records his powerful and disturbing findings. Here is the link to the main website, and you can go to the movie tab on the left: http://www.withoutsanctuary.org/main.html
April 2008
13 posts
Britt at Brijit
Phil Donahue on Tavis Smiley
Excerpts from Amos Oz's The Same Sea
A Shadow Vague rumors abound, and half-testimonies too, concerning a gigantic, almost human creature, that roams alone in the Tibetan mountains. Single and free. Footprints have been photographed in the snow once or twice in inaccessible places where even the most intrepid mountainer would hardly dare venture. Almost certainly it is nothing but a local legend. Like the Loch Ness monster or...
Arlington
Last summer Meredith worked on this public art project in Arlington VA. I helped a bit with some maintenance. The project was awsome good fun and we just found this post on a sustainable blog.
March 2008
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Puberty, Burdens, and GUILT
From Foreskin’s Lament, by Shalom Auslander: “When I was young, they told me that when I died and went to Heaven, the angels would take me into a vast museum full of paintings I had never before seen, paintings that would have been created by all the artistic sperms I had wasted in my life. Then the angels would take me into a huge library full of books I had never read, books that...
