Does anyone else know what I am intinctively, approximately, tentatively referring to when I use the phrase "free-press humor"? I am growing more than a wee tired of it.

It just seems that, between it and the highly visual, repetitive, physical humor of the late SNL school -- well, and the Simpsons/South Park middle road -- that humor, on the ( Read more... )

About a year ago, I worked very hard -- for over a year -- on a poetry manuscript I named mere jonathans. Once finishing a first draft of the book, I "workshopped" it in a small group of three other poets who likewise had their own books they were working on. Once going through detailed note-making for editing, I felt exhausted, done with it. I ( Read more... )

At my job, I shelve the "classics". In our system, the definition of "classic" is any piece of literature regularly assigned in a junior high, high school, or college English class ( Read more... )

Odd pop cultural moment for me; Warning: To me, there is nothing that fails to build meaning ( Read more... )