Uncle Walt's Thanksgiving Thought

... an already 8 year war to 18 (2018) or 23 years (2023). If I prayed, I would pray that President Obama listens to those tapes, heeds the inescapable parallels & then reads Walt Whitman's poem written ca. 1870 after he had mentally digested the history of the Civil War (in which he had witnessed the full ghastliness of death & injury). Mr President do not elide these facts. Learn from them....

Inertia or Law(s) of Motion 6a/?

... Her daddy was frowning at him through the screen and her mother was breathless like it was a romantic poem in action. Jocelyn was a summer’s day forget lovely and temperate. Then he thought of his porch ...was something she’d seen in pictures and never that she could remember in real life. “I’m your Uncle,” he said. Jenny looked at him all but cross-eyed with spit on her chin and her finger half...

John Williams cures insomnia

... I can host Thanksgiving without having a nervous breakdown. (It also helps that I share a house with my uncle and my mother. I know, ladies. That's so sexy.) But for a time, I was having trouble ... to it. The only bad thing about the Superman DVD is that the music-only track has that stupid poem that Margot Kidder is reading while they're flying. I guess they wanted her to be singing, and even ...

My noughties 3: Oskar in Tokyo

... Champion : The title track tells the tale of a certain Uncle Oskar, an enthusiast for Modernism who encounters a series of slapstick ... where's Walter Gropius and Adolf Loos when you need them? Uncle Oskar eventually becomes Modernism's King Kong, its nemesis. It'... figuratively speaking. The song (slightly inspired by an Ivor Cutler poem called Antarctica, in which Mr Cutler wanders in a place like ...

Sung My great-uncle painted portraits of his own disembodied face from rooms in France after the war. Filled with light and stacked along the floor, canvases of his sad eyes look out fom the tops of Roman pagodas, curl around a chair, penetrate skyward from some body of water, while a helmet-head boatman drifts by. I drank port with him once while Sabine cleared the plates: potent raisins ...

[email log] October 17: Still Life With Robin

... say - he'd been with Lian, all three of them together, on one of those rare occasions when Uncle Dick had time to visit for more than a night. His own joy was a complex thing, darkened ... like a portrait of a man on red rocks done in a Southwestern style, Dick was motion, a futurist poem in gleaming steel or a marble Bernini. The separate movements of his undressing not so important as the arcs ...

Fic: Ramblings of Crazy Kat Lady-Kat/Patrick, R, Future Fic, Part Twelve

... first encore when I was accosted by Bianca’s entire family. Sarah hung back slightly, but Lola called me Uncle Patrick and demanded that I sign her shirt, which she announced could never be washed. It took a bit... back, and Walter headed in that direction, but he couldn’t cover the whole crowd. “This is a poem I wrote back in college. It’s called Tattered, and it’s dedicated to my Dad and Rachel.”...

Fanfiction: National Treasure (G)

..., you may come with us." "Dad!" Will and Abe exclaimed at the same moment Emily Anne cried, "Uncle Ben!" He turned to them, blue eyes steely and stern for once. "I am still in charge of... and pen from her pocket, beginning to work out the translation. "It's a type of Japanese poem that, when translated into English, forms three lines with five, seven, and five syllables respectively. Usually, they...

Writing Master List

... paneling Untitled I am still waiting for someone to write a poem about me October in Seven Parts The night would never end, ... their bedtime. Green Lights aren't enough to ensure that my uncle will start driving on special occasions when i make my hair .... Midnight Readings I’m sorry I memorized you a love poem. -And, Also Maybe I deserve all of this backlogged emotion and ...

...put the show on, and how out of 1,500 children only 100 made it out alive... and how her friend was the author of the poem "butterfly" in "I never saw another butterfly". God. It was so much to handle. The kids in the audience pretty much shut down but the ...! Boy #1: My Daddy's bigger than your Daddy! And my mama's got a six pack! Boy #2; Oh yeah? Well my uncle weighs 186 lbs and he's got a D-U-I!