Shared by JeSais we were just talking about tweeting stories last night Brevity is suddenly feeling fat, or at least a bit wordy. Here’s the new lit mag on the block, making brief even briefer: escarp is a selective, Twitter-based review of brief (140 chars or less) poetry and prose (including fiction and nonfiction). Call it a Twitterature review: escar […]
During World War II the Army Corps of Engineers needed to hide the Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant to protect it from a Japanese air attack. They covered it with camouflage netting and trompe l'oeil to make it look like a rural subdivision from the air. Before: Lockheed camouflage - before. After: Lockheed camouflage - after. Lockheed camouflage - stre […]
The online journal Drunken Boat has recently released issue eleven, featuring essays under 1,000 words exploring how folks — in this worldwide financial crisis — cope with the end of the prolonged age of consumption. Here’s the opening from Cal Freeman’s excellent “Some Notes from Dearborn, MI”: We are the bellwether species, that frog with the extra leg in […]
Seeing the very words hot dog made me read “works” as “worst.” Shows my thoughts on the food item. Yet what matters not are such thoughts; rather, how I love your love for your dad. Offering up the best birthday treat he might have imagined, and from a look-alike daughter who so does him proud. The scene is across from the Mall in DC, right? Or is it a Disney version of this great scene of history, culture, and recent Inaugural celebration among so many down (and up ahead) the centuries?
Yeah, the ol’ dog loves a hot dog. It’s all American.
But it’s really about the love, isn’t it? Photographs, memories and the love.
Seeing the very words hot dog made me read “works” as “worst.” Shows my thoughts on the food item. Yet what matters not are such thoughts; rather, how I love your love for your dad. Offering up the best birthday treat he might have imagined, and from a look-alike daughter who so does him proud. The scene is across from the Mall in DC, right? Or is it a Disney version of this great scene of history, culture, and recent Inaugural celebration among so many down (and up ahead) the centuries?