Category Archives: Spotlight

In which I point to something.

10/04/11: Higher Ground at The Grand

Posted on October 4, 2011 by

The Grand Theater is such a find in Tacoma, it’s a membership non-profit movie theater that amply covers the indie world and even has its own film festival, which is upcoming this week and features quite a few interesting-sounding films. But … Continue reading →

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9/19/11: sneak review

Posted on September 19, 2011 by

If you subscribe to Poetry, or have access to a copy of it, I urge you to take a look at the just released October issue and read the poem by Spencer Reesce, The Road to Emmaus. Read it aloud, … Continue reading →

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9/02/11: Life

Posted on September 2, 2011 by

I went to see Life in a Day. My deepest response to this film is that I feel ashamed to be me, but not in a bad way, since I can’t be anyone else, it’s more a humbled feeling along with a … Continue reading →

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8/26/11: planet diamond

Posted on August 26, 2011 by

An international team of astronomers, led by Australia’s Swinburne University of Technology professor Matthew Bailes, has discovered a planet made of diamond crystals, in our own Milky Way galaxy  … with a mass of about 1.4 times that of our … Continue reading →

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8/25/11: Crush

Posted on August 25, 2011 by

This is simply a tribute to gay poets, the guy-ones. I’ll have to do a tribute to lesbian poets too, now that I think about it, there is a large plate of deliciousness there. It’s just that the past few … Continue reading →

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8/10/11: riots

Posted on August 10, 2011 by

Can’t help thinking about the riots in London and points north. Not much complex commentary on NPR or BBC. Of course, it’s disconcerting, what everyone wants is for the mayhem to stop and things to return to normal. But also, … Continue reading →

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8/08/11: Nicole Krauss

Posted on August 8, 2011 by

Just read The Great House by Nicole Krauss, published October 2010. It came into my hands thanks to the Pierce County Library, which had a copy of it in their new books display. I’ve had a copy of her second … Continue reading →

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8/07/11: re: infamy

Posted on August 7, 2011 by

What else is there to say? There is so much to endure if one is to try to feel that living is justified, so much to forget/remember/forget. If we go on at all after all of the atrocities, we must … Continue reading →

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8/04/11: Jose Saramago

Posted on August 4, 2011 by

Saramago eats white space. Is he trying to save the rain forests of Portugal? But so rich, and the way his sentences run on, with asides to his readers, then apologies or explanations that what was just said is certainly … Continue reading →

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8/03/11: Dana Levin

Posted on August 3, 2011 by

Comedy of  not-so-funny errors and a wonderful poet In the late 90s, when my mother was ill, and not getting better, during a period of unemployment, I had the idea that, if I didn’t anchor myself to NYC where I … Continue reading →

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