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Word Cloud: SARDONIC
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
Posted in Estate Law, Humor, Literature, Movies, Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Algonquin Round Table, Dorothy Parker, Lillian Hellman, Martin Luther King Jr, NAACP, Sardonic, The New Yorker
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Word Cloud: SUBVERSIVE
BY NONA BLYTH CLOUD Whenever a small group hungers for power over a larger group, the weapons they use are the same: Terror and Guile. The larger the target area in geography, the greater the population, the more Guile must … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Education, Poetry, Society, Word Cloud
Tagged Children's Books, Goodnight Moon, Power Seekers, Shel Silverstein, Subversive
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The Triumph of the Nanny-State: Lock-down those classrooms or I’ll hit you with my heroic lunch-box
By ann summers “We wanted to nip the problem in the bud,” (1990) A Second Grader in Widefield, CO, was subjected to investigation and evaluation after he responded to an assignment as to what he saw in the clouds by … Continue reading
Word Cloud: ANONYMOUS
by Nona Blyth Cloud Anonymous is an Afghan woman. I write blogs for different groups, and sometimes research for one turns into material for another. In this case, a news story found for a “War on Women” diary: Love, Poetry and … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Anonymous, Eliza Griswold, I Am the Beggar of the World, Mirman Baheer, Seamus Murphy, Women
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Word Cloud: PASSAGE
by Nona Blyth Cloud There are 93 days this year between Summer Solstice on June 21, and Autumnal Equinox on September 23. Today is day 53 of that in-between time. Even as temperatures scorch us, we are closer to summer’s … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Change, Emily Dickinson, Passage, Rachel Hadas, Summer
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So, this seven-foot sad clown walks into a bar….
by Chuck Stanley Puddles the sad clown. Puddles of Pity Party fame. Then he begins to speak….
Losing it at the movies is now so much 19th Century Security Theatre
New literal forms of Security Theater make going to the movies so 19th Century where life is a panopti-diorama, old chum. By ann summers From the theatrical large-scale hand-cranked diorama giving urbanized music hall culture new life to the post-WWII … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Art, Capitalism, Celebrity, Civil Liberties, Constitutional Law, Democracy
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Word Cloud: CHORTLE
by Nona Blyth Cloud As an antidote to all the preliminary Primary Screaming dominating the news, I highly recommend Sarah Vowell’s wonderful books, which are a combination of Tours of Historical Sites, Vowell’s Interactions with her Family and Others, and … Continue reading
Word Cloud: WRATH
by Nona Blyth Cloud There are some poets who have a universal appeal, whose hauntingly beautiful words we turn to again and again for succor and an uplifting of spirit. Then there’s Diane Wakoski. “This book is dedicated to all … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Anais Nin, Diane Wakoski, Edward Abbey, Emerald Ice, Robinson Jeffers, The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems, Wrath
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