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February 22, 2010
Don't read this blog! Read a novel instead!
From "The Future of Reading" by Josh Quittner in Fortune (March 1, 2010, pg. 66):
"People definitely want to browse. ... But many also crave deep reading experiences. Man does not live by blog alone! It would be like surviving entirely on cupcakes."
Well said! The lobster urges you, gentle reader, to delve into a novel this evening, once you quit our blog for today.Daniel A. Rabuzzi is author of the fantasy novel "The Choir Boats," available from ChiZine Publications in September...
"People definitely want to browse. ... But many also crave deep reading experiences. Man does not live by blog alone! It would be like surviving entirely on cupcakes."
Well said! The lobster urges you, gentle reader, to delve into a novel this evening, once you quit our blog for today.Daniel A. Rabuzzi is author of the fantasy novel "The Choir Boats," available from ChiZine Publications in September...
February 21, 2010
Sunday Morning: Coffee, The World's Largest Book, and Blogs
[Photo from The Guardian.co.uk, article by Mark Brown, January 26, 2010:]
Sunday morning, snow on the ground but a hint of spring in the blue air.
Coffee with brown sugar and a dash of grated nutmeg.
Jean-Luc Ponty and Tangerine Dream on the airwaves.
The world's largest book goes on display at the British Museum in April: the Klencke Atlas, given by Dutch merchant Johannes Klencke to Charles II at the Restoration in 1660.
I want to walk into this book, lose myself in the lands it depicts.
I wonde...
February 20, 2010
Nebula Award Nominees Announced
The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America has released the nominees for the Nebula Awards.
Click here for the list of nominees.
The nominees for best novel are particularly strong.Daniel A. Rabuzzi is author of the fantasy novel "The Choir Boats," available from ChiZine Publications in September 2009."The Choir Boats" explores issues of race, gender, sin, and salvation, and includes a mysterious letter, knuckledogs, carkodrillos, smilax root, goat stew, and one very fierce golden cat...
Click here for the list of nominees.
The nominees for best novel are particularly strong.Daniel A. Rabuzzi is author of the fantasy novel "The Choir Boats," available from ChiZine Publications in September 2009."The Choir Boats" explores issues of race, gender, sin, and salvation, and includes a mysterious letter, knuckledogs, carkodrillos, smilax root, goat stew, and one very fierce golden cat...
February 18, 2010
Tanguy and the Indefinitely Divided
(Yves Tanguy, Indefinite Divisibility, painted in 1942).
Last night, Canary dreamed a dream of a Tanguy landscape.
Barbs that climbed the sky, a hazed sky.
Beware the mirror's reverse, the world behind the mirror.Daniel A. Rabuzzi is author of the fantasy novel "The Choir Boats," available from ChiZine Publications in September 2009."The Choir Boats" explores issues of race, gender, sin, and salvation, and includes a mysterious letter, knuckledogs, carkodrillos, smilax root, goat stew, and one v...
February 15, 2010
Eleanor Wilner on the Past
A thought from poet Eleanor Wilner that I have been mulling for several years:
"As we change the past, so we are changed."
(From her late 1990s essay, "Playing the Changes," for which I need of course a more precise citation-- I am not sure from whence it fetched up in my commonplace book.)
A truism...but much more than that, as Wilner explores the nature of history, change, historicity.
Which drives at the heart of narrative, storytelling, the coming-at of the truth of things.
Reminds me of...
"As we change the past, so we are changed."
(From her late 1990s essay, "Playing the Changes," for which I need of course a more precise citation-- I am not sure from whence it fetched up in my commonplace book.)
A truism...but much more than that, as Wilner explores the nature of history, change, historicity.
Which drives at the heart of narrative, storytelling, the coming-at of the truth of things.
Reminds me of...
February 14, 2010
Sunday Morning: Coffee, "My Funny Valentine," and Blogs
Coffee, with lots of hot milk, frothy.
Cold outside, very cold. Gulls skimming the Hudson, Brant Geese seeking shelter by the ferry landing.
"My Funny Valentine" -- the Miles Davis version.
And time to catch up on what others are saying. To savor and digest.
Three whose separate musings constantly inspire: Kate Castelli's Wandering But Not Lost,Sonya Taaffe's Myth Happens, and Leigh Batnick's Jezebel, Correspondence for the Vagabond Heart. Reading their daily entries is like reading Stefan Zw...
February 12, 2010
KeKe Cribbs on play
Ceramicist KeKe Cribbs on play:
"Play is so important because it involves a willingness to fall down, make mistakes and learn from them."
(From Lynda McDaniel, "The Art of Play," in AmericanStyle, Winter 2009-2010.)
Click here for more.Daniel A. Rabuzzi is author of the fantasy novel "The Choir Boats," available from ChiZine Publications in September 2009."The Choir Boats" explores issues of race, gender, sin, and salvation, and includes a mysterious letter, knuckledogs, carkodrillos, smilax...
"Play is so important because it involves a willingness to fall down, make mistakes and learn from them."
(From Lynda McDaniel, "The Art of Play," in AmericanStyle, Winter 2009-2010.)
Click here for more.Daniel A. Rabuzzi is author of the fantasy novel "The Choir Boats," available from ChiZine Publications in September 2009."The Choir Boats" explores issues of race, gender, sin, and salvation, and includes a mysterious letter, knuckledogs, carkodrillos, smilax...
February 10, 2010
Adela Leibowitz: Luminous Dreamscapes
Adela Leibowitz is a painter you will hear much more about in the next few years. Her work is a portal into other worlds. The three examples above are all oil on linen, painted in 2008: Les fleurs du mal (Flowers of evil); Masque of the Red Death; History of Sin.
Click here for more about Adela.
Adela kindly answered a few questions for us.
Lobster & Canary 1. Reviewers frequently refer to the "dreamlike" quality of your work-- which I will echo. Do you find that a fitting descriptor, ...
February 9, 2010
Vision Quest: Neo-Shamanic Art at The Observatory
Pam Grossman presents at The Observatory in Gowanus, Brooklyn a group show of neo-shamanic art: Vision Quest.
Above are two of the pictures in the show: Setting Sun World by Jessie Rose Vala, and A Cruel & Beautiful Far Away Place by Christopher Reiger.
Click here for more.Daniel A. Rabuzzi is author of the fantasy novel "The Choir Boats," available from ChiZine Publications in September 2009."The Choir Boats" explores issues of race, gender, sin, and salvation, and includes a mysterious...
February 8, 2010
Wiley, Beagle, Jemisin, Horn: New Work
The lobster wishes he had the heads of Hydra (though not its temperament!), and the canary wishes for the eyes of Argus, so that we could read more and ever more.
Above are four new or immediately upcoming releases that we hope to get to...
Kehinde Wiley, with Reynaldo Roels, The World Stage Brazil (Roberts & Tilton, January 31, 2010). From the blurb: "...a selection of 22 new portrait paintings from Kehinde Wiley's multinational World Stage series, which has included Africa, China and India i...
