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April 23, 2013
César Vallejo: "Distant Footsteps"
Taiko Haessler over at Band of Wild Petticoats has a lovely post on Peruvian poet César Vallejo. The post included this translation of the poem "Distant Footsteps" and a recording of Vallejo reading it -- which I have shamelessly reposted...
April 22, 2013
Returning to the Swan Maiden's Feathered Robe
As part of moving the JoMA files to their new home, I have also been making a spot for my own articles here at the Labyrinth. It gives me a chance to re-read my own work and remember how enjoyable...
April 19, 2013
Balzac, and the Cure For Too Much Work: Coffee!
Yes...I have been absent lately as I have been involved in an incredibly ambitious plan to move the more than two hundred articles, poems, essays, and art from the current site of The Endicott Studio for Mythic Arts and the...
March 26, 2013
Off The Blog For A Bit
I will be off the blog until until April Fool's Day as I am at a conference on Shakespeare's history plays. This should be fun, intense, and busy! And after such a heady time, I will be ready for a...
March 19, 2013
How To Solve Those Plot Problems
I often think that sorting out a plot isn't that different from trying to solve a riddle. Plots have a certain integrity -- like riddles that require a before hand knowledge of the answer rather than a true guess. But...
What Is Your Library Saying?
For all my writer and reader friends with their groaning book shelves...want to have some fun with the titles-- ala Nina Katchadourian? Send me a photo of your sorted spines and I will post them here. I will be doing...
March 18, 2013
The Very Best Insults
This is why I love reading Shakespeare: Prince Hal: "This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horse-back breaker, this huge hill of flesh." Falstaff: "S'Blood, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried neat's-tongue, you bull-pizzle, you stock fish. Oh for breath to...
March 7, 2013
Remembering It's All About Balance After A Couple Of Long Weeks of Work
Sometimes in the midst of all our work, it seems impossible to find the breath or the balance to stay upright. I love this video of RIGOLO Sanddornbalance 2012 Art Installation - it has an almost instantly soothing effect. This...
February 25, 2013
Reading the Net: Medieval Raunchiness, A Character's Breakfast, and The Knowing
Three items that accompanied me this morning as I stumbled through coffee and then woke, grateful to the internet for making my morning so interesting, funny, and inspiring. Band of Wild Petticoats blogger, Taiko Haessler takes a much needed break...
February 23, 2013
Well Dressed Hens
I would absolutely knit shawls for chickens. They wear them well.
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