Poetry: Asking for Roses by Robert FrostA house that lacks, seemingly, mistress and master, With doors that none but the wind ever closes,Its floor all littered with glass and with plaster; It stands in a garden of old-fashioned roses.Read More Song In My Head: Teenage Dream by T Rex https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkGNU1089HQ Art: Sine Mackinnon’s …
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A Very Weird Christmas Care Package for Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020
Hey, y’all? I thought I could do it. Twenty-five days of swimming in the schlock-filled pool of Christmas counterculture. But I feel like I’m drowning in festive garbage here, so today is the last Very Weird Christmas Care Package. I’m broken. Tomorrow I’ll switch things up and go through Christmas Day with a different take …
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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 …
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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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 …