Category Archives: Literature

Naomi Shihab Nye Talks about Writing

Posted on June 15, 2016 by wordcloud9

Palestinian-American poet, essayist and novelist Naomi Shihab Nye is a wonderful writer, and she’s also a terrific teacher. In this video, Marcia Franklin talks with her  at the 2012 Sun Valley Writers’ Conference. The two discuss the themes in Nye’s … Continue reading →

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Cthulhu for President

Posted on June 4, 2016 by wordcloud9

When Bill Kristol, editor of the conservative “Weekly Standard,” said over the weekend that an independent candidate would be entering the race for president, this probably wasn’t what he had in mind. Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro responded to Kristol’s tweet by … Continue reading →

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From SteamPunk to Trumpunk’d Americans… a libertarian/GOP social-media battle/alliance

Posted on May 30, 2016 by ann li-summers

 By ann summers From SteamPunk to Trumpunk’d Americans… a libertarian/GOP social media battle/alliance to come or will Bernie’s youth followers vote their real interests. It’s more than Hillary’s gaffe about the need to redirect coal producing communities but to make sure that the … Continue reading →

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Elon Musk & Aeon Flux: will Mars be only for the 1%

Posted on May 30, 2016 by ann li-summers

A million folks on Mars could be the Earth’s Plan B Continue reading →

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The beginning of Turner Diaries II(I) or the end of the Bundy insurgency

Posted on January 27, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers “Avenge me…” the Red Dawn protagonists’ father cries out, and with his passing, will LaVoy Finicum’s legacy be a 2015 novel that could become The Turner Diaries for a new generation of RWNJ.  Finicum’s 241-page apocalyptic cowboy thriller … Continue reading →

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When It’s Your Turn To Cook The Bird

Posted on November 26, 2015 by Chuck Stanley

By Jim Foreman, Guest Blogger Jim Foreman tells me he wrote this twenty years ago for a women’s magazine. It has been republished, somewhere, every year since then. I suggested to him that it would be a shame to break … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: HARBINGER

Posted on October 9, 2015 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Last-Minute Message For a Time Capsule I have to tell you this, whoever you are: that on one summer morning here, the ocean pounded in on tumbledown breakers, a south wind, bustling along the shore, whipped … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: SUNCROSSING

Posted on October 1, 2015 by wordcloud9

 by NONA BLYTH CLOUD I am by choice most thoroughly a creature of the West Coast convergence of sea and desert, which gives new meaning to “dry land.” Autumn, when the sun recrosses the equator heading south, might tempt me … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: SOUNDINGS

Posted on September 18, 2015 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD I usually don’t feel the need to explain my one-word titles, but this connection is personal. “Soundings” are what sailors take when they are in shallow water or where there are hidden rocks. Sounding is also … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: SARDONIC

Posted on September 11, 2015 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD “Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.”  “Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”  “I hate writing, I love having written.” “By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and … Continue reading →

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