dilettante

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# posted by Kathleen @ 5:41 PM 2 comments

The Magiby W. B. Yeats 
Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye,In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied onesAppear and disappear in the blue depth of the skyWith all their ancient faces like rain-beaten stones,And all their helms of silver hovering side by side,And all their eyes still fixed, hoping to find once more,Being by Calvary's turbulence unsatisfied,The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor.

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# posted by Kathleen @ 12:07 AM 16 comments

But to be a literary painter at the end of the nineteenth century was to be on the wrong side of history.

American writers alive today are expected to work as if Gertrude Stein never existed.

A controversial writer and his fact checker battle in a new book. Too bad neither gets close to the truth 

I’m a political ignoramus, or so my readers keep telling me. Yet it seemed totally obvious to me that

1. There would be no going back to the well if the first stimulus fell short

2. Obama would get no credit for fiscal responsibility, no matter what he offered by way of spending cuts

3. The GOP would ruthlessly exploit whatever leverage it was given

So how is it that all these worldly-wise political types got these things so wrong?

 this question of blog writing versus “Real Writing.”  “I’ve always considered the whole Writing Practice idea as yet another example of some poets’ insufferable egotism, a total guy thing, like they think they’re such geniuses their shopping lists should be bronzed. Would these guys consider a woman blogging about her heartbreak as part of a serious writing practice? I doubt it. 

Ahmed joins a group of  exciting new writers like N.K. Jemsin, Lauren Beukes, and Nnedi Okorafor who are revitalizing the fantasy genre with fresh perspectives and original stories.

In the past Margaret and I have stood up for Planned Parenthood. But that is no longer good enough. Today, tomorrow and every day that we have left on this planet, we won’t just stand up for them, we will stand up for women everywhere. We will vote for them. We will advocate for them. We will fight for them. And we will start right here. Right now. My grandson tells us that people from all over the nation and even from other countries read this web page blog of ours. Well, I can’t imagine why, but if you are going to read it, then you should use your head for something other than a hat rack and learn a thing or two about the real Planned Parenthood.

Yes. They provide abortion services. Deal with it because they also do so much more and we remember the world before them. It wasn’t pretty.

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# posted by Kathleen @ 11:45 PM 0 comments

The Magi
by W. B. Yeats

Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye,
In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones
Appear and disappear in the blue depth of the sky
With all their ancient faces like rain-beaten stones,
And all their helms of silver hovering side by side,
And all their eyes still fixed, hoping to find once more,
Being by Calvary's turbulence unsatisfied,
The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor.

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# posted by Kathleen @ 10:30 PM 10 comments

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# posted by Kathleen @ 2:47 PM 5 comments

They call me and I go.
It is a frozen road
past midnight, a dust
of snow caught
in the rigid wheeltracks.
The door opens.
I smile, enter and
shake off the cold.
Here is a great woman
on her side in the bed.
She is sick,
perhaps vomiting,
perhaps laboring
to give birth to
a tenth child. Joy! Joy!
Night is a room
darkened for lovers,
through the jalousies the sun
has sent one golden needle!
I pick the hair from her eyes
and watch her misery
with compassion.

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# posted by Kathleen @ 4:25 PM 9 comments

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# posted by Kathleen @ 7:51 AM 15 comments

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# posted by Kathleen @ 2:39 PM 5 comments

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# posted by Kathleen @ 3:01 PM 17 comments

I can picture him standing in his dressing room before meeting Charlize and practicing saying hello. "Hi Ms. Theron, I'm Chef Tom, I'm a big fan of your Tom. SHIT. Hello, Charlize? Can I call you that? I'm Top, welcome to Tom Chef. Fuck."

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# posted by Kathleen @ 1:55 PM 14 comments