Much of the popular music that I listen to is art. It may show a perspective often foreign to me: abuse, a yearning to seduce a girlfriend, romantic jealousy, or some sort of conflict. Most art and literature has conflict and thus it is easy to see how popular art has conflict. Recently, I’ve began [...]
“The night sky is an infinite viola and the milky way is a bow and the universe is a carousel of flowing manes and fiery eyes”
The above is from this delightful and mentally delicious nugget commenting on this Christmas season from Over The Rhine. Over the Rhine is a wonderful wife and husband band that [...]
Back in May, I posted on blogging organization and design. Since then, I have set up Cultured Media and the poetry knook although the visual design of both and of Rachel and Stephen has not begun. Adding Cultured Media has made the focus more narrow, eventually Cultured Media will contain book and music reviews.
But where [...]
I am making my blogs into networks that read each others posts which means the blogs are co-dependent and thus could cause each other to fault. I have been able to create a master feed of all my blogs at SMJdesign.com/feed/ If you are currently subscribing to Rachel and Stephen, and would like to subscribe [...]
I am at the threshold of a new season of the year. Two more half days of teaching and then nine weeks of time to concentrate on the visualization of my passion. There is a lot of pressure when there is so little time. Pressure to focus scares me and stunts the growth of my [...]
The Game Show Network has launched The National Vocabulary Championship with a $40,000 grand prize. The contest measures word usage and comprehension. It’s like “American Idol, a spelling bee, and Jeopardy all rolled into one,” Martha Barnette, A Way With Words.
God had a sense
of humor that he didn’t share with His angels
entertaining Adam and Eve as they created Seth.
Laughter was heard on a wedding night
between the pain and the pleasure:
ingredients for a sticky sauce
that adheres family portraits and
slippery noodles to a single, circular wall.
I’m considering a revamp of the poetry knook. Why? I’m not sure. I would like to re-design all my sites eventually. Even though there are kids going to sleep hungry around the world, I have learned so much and reformatted a few blogs into corporate news sections and it is annoying to give someone else [...]
I will love if she comments (so many)
times and sights un-seen,
climbing mountains and sipping beers Flickr before my eye
and ewe sit behind a webbed and woolen curtain
following, descending, my stumbling Bloc,
stares into a liquid crystal reflection,
for nuclear arms are easier to hug than bloggers.
the pendulum swings and
college slides
down the bunk bed post,
debunked of passion,
penny loafers, worn, on ice rolling
credits shower mortarboards
the newly commissioned officers
grow beards in battle
and salute to the retail mercenaries
and baristas in berets