Care Package for Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020

Poetry: Polar Night by Lewis WarshMaybe if you could see yourselffrom a distanceyou could see what people see when they see you up closeRead More Song In My Head: Everyday I Write the Book by Elvis Costello https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1d4r9awjKE Art: Gerald Laing’s Skydiver VI Photo credit: tate.org.uk Quote: “Aging is not ‘lost youth’ but a new stage …

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A Very Weird Christmas Care Package for Monday, Dec. 14, 2020

We’re well into the holiday season, and it’s already one of the weirdest we’ve ever experienced. If you don’t know why, consider yourself lucky. Instead of resisting the bizarre atmosphere we’re living through, I figured, why not lean into it and have some fun? Christmas has long been a secret haven of the strange, and …

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A DATE WITH HISTORY: Friday, Dec. 14, 1979

In the Top Ten: Babe by Styx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBi61pgDUP8 On the Bestseller List: Provenance by Frank McDonald Photo credit: amazon.com New In Theaters: The Jerk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lduFFNqBFPs New In Comic Shops: Casey Ruggles: King of the Horsemen Photo credit: mycomicshop.com On TV: Eischied https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHxI6Dmf2ow Magazine Roulette: Ranger Rick Photo credit: mycomicshop.com Zodiac/Horoscope: Click here Photo credit: pinterest.com …

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Care Package for Monday, Dec. 14, 2020

Poetry: In a Church of Padua by Herman MelvilleIn vaulted place where shadows flit,An upright sombre box you see:A door, but fast, and lattice none.Read More Song In My Head: On the Radio by Regina Spektor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHAhnJbGy9M Art: Richard Dadd’s The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke Photo credit: tate.org.uk Quote: “It is justice, not charity, that is …

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A Very Weird Christmas Care Package for Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020

We’re well into the holiday season, and it’s already one of the weirdest we’ve ever experienced. If you don’t know why, consider yourself lucky. Instead of resisting the bizarre atmosphere we’re living through, I figured, why not lean into it and have some fun? Christmas has long been a secret haven of the strange, and …

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