Synchronicity

Filed under:Blogh — posted by jonfrankel on February 18, 2010 @ 7:59 am

On the way to work today I had been mulling over a post on the difference between progressive politics and ideas about ‘progressive’ art. I was thinking, as I often do, that these are very different things. When I got to work I let my post drift off and set about moving 140 feet of [...]

Little Orphans Running Through The Bloody Snow

Filed under:Blogh, Poetry — posted by jonfrankel on February 3, 2010 @ 8:26 am

Baby’s slain
Now pray for rain

Two New Links

Filed under:Blogh — posted by jonfrankel on January 29, 2010 @ 6:10 am

I’ve added two new links today. One is to Obooko, an English website dedicated to the free distribution of e-books. They contacted me about posting The Man Who Can’t Die there, Which I Have Done.
The other is personal. At my friend Bob’s 50th birthday in Brooklyn last weekend (a bash not to be forgotten, at [...]

lurker

Filed under:Blogh — posted by jonfrankel on @ 5:55 am

perhaps its a cylon probe but some entity has been looking at my 3 Berry Place, Darwin, Australia, 1983 post. If you are indeed human, and know anything of 3 Berry Place, Darwin, Australia in 1983, please reveal yourself…i too am of the tribe of humans. there are few of us left, perhaps only 2 [...]

Fugitive Poem

Filed under:Blogh, Poetry — posted by jonfrankel on January 25, 2010 @ 7:56 am

I try to be holistic in my thinking, but it is impossible not to feel that I have a poet brain and a prose brain. There is a lot of counterpoint between them. When I am writing fiction my own poetry seems alien. I either don’t like it, or don’t know how I wrote it. [...]

Anne Edsall

Filed under:Blogh — posted by jonfrankel on January 19, 2010 @ 12:56 pm

Anne Edsall, 1962-2010
A short note for those who knew her, who were around. There’s a ‘friends of Anne’ Facebook group for anyone who wishes to reminisce. It just makes me terribly sad that she is gone. Anne was someone I knew from the late seventies to the early eighties. I haven’t seen her since. She [...]

Cycle of Fire

Filed under:Blogh — posted by jonfrankel on January 18, 2010 @ 12:51 pm

FIRE
A Brief History
By Stephen J. Pyne
University of Washington Press, 2001
“According to many myths, we became truly human only when we acquired fire. So it is natural to assume a parallel awakening for the place we live. Rather, the Earth likely simmered through more than four billion years before its biotic broth boiled over.”
So begins chapter [...]

The Rules

Filed under:Blogh — posted by jonfrankel on January 14, 2010 @ 7:51 am

There was a discussion yesterday at Ward Six about Elmore Leonard. John was saying that he loved Leonard’s dialogue, and then someone posted a link to Leonard’s rules for writing, published some years back in the Times. The rules are simple and indisputable, as far as they go, and they have the limitations of any [...]

The Man Who Can’t Die Podcast

Filed under:Blogh, The Man Who Can't Die — posted by jonfrankel on January 7, 2010 @ 6:16 am

My dear and generous friend Miette has done a wonderful thing for me, she is going to begin podcasting The Man Who Can’t Die today, here: http://themanwhocantdie.com/
Miette has a wonderful podcast. She reads, sometimes from the bathtub, an eclectic slew of matter that staggers me with its breadth. She is also a great writer and [...]

I WANT TO LIVE!

Filed under:Blogh — posted by jonfrankel on December 24, 2009 @ 6:56 am

I WANT TO LIVE!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/science/22angi.html
I have for many years loved the writing of Natalie Angier, and this article is no exception. But aside from her ferociously delicious vocabulary and the slightly bent perspective she brings to her subject (bent in the sexual sense!), both of which i savour in this story, I post this because it [...]


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