Last time, I mentioned the benefits — to creative work — of being physical and then next time I looked at Freelancer’s Toolbox, found it mentioned there. Here’s the validating passage, along with a lot of other good stuff:
I can’t tell you how many times I had writer’s block. I set aside a few hours [...]
Taking a break from painting (living room walls & like interior areas) — which by the way is a good break from writing and has the special property of allowing me to slip into a sort of meditative state, from which inevitably new things come — and checking out this issue of Narrative Magazine. Piz [...]
How people intersect is not solely the province of writers. Still most stories, literature, writing, et al if not take as a starting point at least rely upon this, how people intersect.
See the online exhibition, Link-A, 11 internet-based art projects, “dramatic narratives about the past, present, and future of individuals and their intersubjective relationships.”
Link-A is [...]
The complete plays of Shakespeare, where you can do things like
Search within Hamlet for “to be or not to be” to read the rest of his famous soliloquy. Find out who called the world his “oyster” and why. Browse through a familiar play – or follow your curiosity to discover a new one.
Smart choice, Google. [...]
Yesterday, I should have provided links for Ted Kooser. Besides his website, he has American Life in Poetry.
Doing the lowcountryblogs roundup this week, which is a time-consuming activity. That, and learning more about Greg Palast.
Typing in this entry’s title, I realized it could seem intentional or even a bad pun, and if I had more time, more whatever it is that it could take to do it, I’d come up with something different, but this post is meant literally. Ted Kooser’s poem On the Road, for everywhere you can [...]
Back here, I noted QuickMuse as worth watching, shared a piece of its creator’s essay on improvisation. QuickMuse reminds me a little of the tradition of Kabigaan (or Kobigaan if you’re talking India and not Bangladesh). (Note: all emphases mine)
Kobials (folk poets). The instinctive folk poets sing or recite their compositions in [...]
Because art is a behavior not a commodity. (Who said that? )
My guess from watching New York Doll is that Arthur Kane didn’t know that.
So Spolelo ends. C’s word was appreciated (though not exactly understood or perhaps the meaning was [artfully?] co-opted?):
the Holtians who see his show (a wonderful new word, coined by blog commenters [...]
… cannot be as tragic or as dark without his inherent and irresistible comedic impulses.
Paul Jones says with Dark Matters:
…In the planetarium,
Our eyes become accustomed
To the lack of light, old skull,
Old orb, the old black cracked bowl,
The old cup pouring out cold…
Read it all.
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“Happiness is really something effervescent that fills me completely with a light, [...]