Fingers Through Holy Water
Gospel music, like its secular cousin the blues, never wallows in pity, but instead seeks to transcend pain and reach glory. Bashir’s book makes the same trip.
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Brian Spears
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Brian Spears is Senior Poetry Editor of The Rumpus and the author of A Witness in Exile (Louisiana Literature Press, 2011). His poem “Upon Reading That Andromeda Will One Day Devour Triangulum and Come For Us Next” was featured in Season 9 of Motion Poems.
William Shatner Reads Sarah Palin’s Farewell Speech
When Sarah Palin gave this speech, it was a disjointed mumble of insanity. When William Shatner performs it, it’s strangely beautiful. The bongos might have something to do with it.
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Britain’s Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy has commissioned some war poetry for today as the Afghan war rages and the official inquiry into the Iraq War begins. Joel Brouwer commemorates…
Did You Miss?
Lots of great reading on The Rumpus over the last couple of weeks. Here’s some links in case you missed them. Kelly did a fascinating rundown on the stripper memoir.…
Oddest Video Game Ever?
I’ll never be mistaken for a legitimate gamer–I couldn’t figure out Defender when I was in my teenaged gaming prime, and I own the Iron Chef America game for the…
Charles Blow on Skip Gates
If I had to guess, based on the reaction I saw and read over the last day and a half, I’d say roughly 0% of the white male pundits bloviating…
Really, Really Old Beer
One of the highlights of my time living in San Francisco was the 9 months I worked part time at Anchor Brewing. I learned more about beer in those nine…
Saturday Morning Links
Let’s say you were the kind of person who thinks the Bible could use a little livening up, a little updating–you’d probably find Overthinking It’s post on fusing the KJV…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Sorry for last week–the gods of the intertubes laid a righteous smack on my connection and blogging from an iPhone, even with the new cut and paste feature, isn’t all…
This Could Change the World
Road-trippers everywhere rejoice–Garardine Botte may have just made it possible for you to drive anywhere without stopping to pee, because that’s how you’ll fuel your car. Here’s the science end…
Random Media Notes
Do you have what it takes to be the next Philip J. Fry? Turanga Leela? Bender Bending Rodriguez? Fox is apparently bringing Futurama back yet again, but is planning to…