The voices write the words that spread across the page. They say what they want, when they want. I mostly just edit. Sometimes, the voices chatter like monkeys. Every so often, they whisper intimate lies. At times, they explain mystery through symbol. I never know what to expect. The written words urge me to rethink […]
True need grabs at desperation; Love turns real through wounded eyes – You made a melting conflagration, Ripped this mammoth from its ice. Deprivation’s quavering jitter Stumbling over pill-blocked feet; All was acrid venom bitter Then a flash: the world is sweet. I would be your alien rocket Looping round your orbit chair, Blasting out
He is a driving music manWhose beats match somethingIn the rhythm of my soul-singing.Resistance is futile,So I grab the bags and turn the key.This road trip has not begunSo much as continued along a vein of possibility.My thoughts are liberated, yet Spirit strains against Self-imposed discipline, And I wake in the morning
From Jared Hess, the mind that brought the universe Napoleon Dynamite, comes Gentlemen Broncos, a 2009 film about bad science fiction, intellectual property, independent filmmaking, blow darts, geodome living, and nightgowns. If you’re looking for something funny and a little unusual, this could be the one for you. The protagonist of Gentlemen Broncos, Benjamin, is a young science fiction
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The other day, a 17-year-old told me she didn’t think there was life beyond Earth. I mentioned the recent discovery by NASA scientists of seven potentially habitable exoplanets in a solar system just 39 light years away and suggested that astronomers will find a second Earth very soon. I also pointed out that scientists have
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I could hear the wheel bearings of my skates spin with each revolution as I smiled at my friends and watched them take their seats. I tried to project the appearance of calm experience and a confidence I didn’t feel. I knew enough about my competition to understand that if I showed even a hint
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