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Allons enfants de la patrie, le jour de gloire est arrive!
It's Bastille Day, a Thursday, yes, it's 2011and to honor the occasion we quote an American songfrom a man who loved Parisand the song was done as a duetin a picture that also featured…
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Florence + The Machine, Piss Christ, War, Little Miss Sunshine, District 9 & Then Some [by Neil de la Flor]
This is what I taught this semester while wearing a fedora: Florence + the Machine: I'm obsessed with Florence and her red hair. I'm obsessed with her cosmic voice. I'm obsessed with her lineage…
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The Great White Shark [by Stephen Reichert]
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;But when the truth entails tremendous ruin,To speak dishonorably is pardonable. –Sophocles, Fragment 323 of Creusa Today was the first day in the federal government’s perjury trial against former…
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Matthew Yeager reads at the Bloomsday BAP reading: NYC 16 June 2011
event organized by Mike Geffner, http://inspiredwordnyc.blogspot.com/
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Mama Mia, Chiquitita, Sinead O’Connor, Ladytron and Pegasus [by Neil de la Flor]
“Love is reciprocity and so is art. Either you abandon yourself to another world that you say you seek or you find ways to resist it. Most of us are art resisters because art…
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Riddle of the Day
This is how UCLA Professor Stephen Yenser paraphrases part of a greatly admired poem by the "greatest minor poet" in English lliterature. Name poet and poem and you win bragging rights. <<My love is exceptional…
