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Beyond Easy: NPM: The Mockingbird and Mr. Frost
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Thursday, April 23, 2015. NPM: The Mockingbird and Mr. Frost. This week's episode of A Prairie Home Companion. My soft spot for Garrison Keillor. Is fairly well documented) was in especially fine form, particularly the musical numbers. It's five days later and I still can't get the Anonymous 4's rendition of "Listen to the Mockingbird" out of my head. (I would link directly to it I could, but you'll have to do some scrolling and clicking here. To hear it.). Listen to the Mockingbird. And the mockingbird ...
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Beyond Easy: January 2015
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Saturday, January 31, 2015. Your guess is good as mine. St Andrews Cotton Stainers. Hermit crabs that have been sitting in cages in a boardwalk shop or pet store have lost their joie de vivre. Also—and this is true—if a hermit crab on a steeply graded surface notices you coming, he'll withdraw into his shell, and start rolling downwards. You'll be walking up a hill, and shells will be tumbling down past your ankles. Real inconspicuous. Hummingbirds will sit and chirp for you if you're patient. A lot of p...
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Beyond Easy: NPM: Monet Refuses the Operation
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015. NPM: Monet Refuses the Operation. Claude Monet, La passerelle japonaise. When I was sniffing around Google Images for an image to accompany Allen Ginsberg's " Ode to Failure. A few nights ago, I came upon a page. Examining a Lisel Mueller poem about renowned painter Claude Monet. So you might as well swing by there to see the poem treated in some beautiful detail.) For my part, I will just offer Ginsberg's " Don't Grow Old. As a counterpoint and Whitman's " To Old Age. The Houses...
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Beyond Easy: NPM: Millay Goes Down
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Monday, April 20, 2015. NPM: Millay Goes Down. Today's poem isn't by Millay herself, but contemporary poet Moira Egan, who speaks for her in a piece that encompasses several of Millay's usual themes: desire, memory, and intimacy, and also oral sex. Enjoy! The refrain at the top of each stanza is, of course, the first line and title of one of Millay's most well-known sonnets. What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why? Yes, there. That summer in the barn,. Oblivious to scratches, clothes half-on,.
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Beyond Easy: NPM: Ode to Failure
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Sunday, April 26, 2015. NPM: Ode to Failure. Pablo Picasso, Le peintre et son modèle. Last night I borrowed a copy of The Portable Beat Reader. From a friend's bookshelf. There's a fair chance that anything else I end up posting for National Poetry Month from here on out will come from its pages. Allen Ginsberg (1926 – 1997). Many prophets have failed, their voices silent. Ghost-shouts in basements nobody heard dusty laughter in family. Nor glanced them on park benches weeping with relief under empty.
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Beyond Easy: December 2014
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Tuesday, December 23, 2014. Swamps and Black Mana. Stephan Martiniere (Swamp from Ravnica). When I visited Jason at Earthdance last January, I left my EDH deck with him for safekeeping—not only for the deck's sake, but to ensure that I wouldn't allot all of my money and mental bandwidth to Magic: the Gathering in the months ahead. So when I visited him last week. You'd better believe we stayed up until three in the morning playing EDH games that went on forever. It was great. Ebony jewelwings, spangled s...
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Beyond Easy: NPM: Axe Handles
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Thursday, April 30, 2015. Stol'n from Classic Home Builders. To close out National Poetry Month 2015, we have a short piece by Beat poet, environmentalist, and dharma anarchist Gary Snyder, composed in his middle age. Maybe I'm posting it as an answer to something, or an explanation. Or because I've never been able to convey the notion that the present consists of transmissions of the past reaching toward the future as vividly as Mr. Snyder. Gary Snyder (1930 – ). One afternoon the last week in April.
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Beyond Easy: May 2015
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Thursday, May 28, 2015. A (Very) Quick Look at 2099: Manifest Destiny. Having already peered at X-Men 2099. Lets take a quick, a very quick look at Marvels 2099: Manifest Destiny. The Marvel 2099 imprint went under in August 1996, and its sole surviving scion, 2099: World of Tomorrow. Was unceremoniously put down after only eight months. In 1998, the superheroes of the dark American future get their eulogy and epilogue in the form of a double-size one-off called 2099: Manifest Destiny. Ive got the itch a...
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Beyond Easy: November 2014
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Sunday, November 30, 2014. Racists getting fired (& getting racists fired). Over the last few days I've noticed a lot of folks on the Twitter and the Face-book linking to the new Tumblr sensation. It's called racists getting fired (& getting racists fired). And its purpose is to find people saying nasty racist shit on social media, finding out where they work, directing their superiors to aforesaid racist shit, and getting them fired. I kind of really hate it. To do The successes of the queer community t...
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Beyond Easy: Flaubert as Futurist
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Thursday, May 14, 2015. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Futurist words-in-freedom. Prescience is one of the prime signifiers of a fine and powerful mind. Gustave Flaubert. Knew what was up, as we can see from a letter penned in the early 1850s, while he was working on Madame Bovary:. Obviously Flaubert was right. What he almost certainly didn't see coming was that the clearing of contrivances, of "matter" away from expression. Note: I recently attached this blog to the domain beyondeasy.net. 8212; $10.35.
