Van Morrison, Mystical Irish Warrior Poet, or Something Like That
You can talk about Van Morrison, the man, or Van Morrison, the recording artist, but what you should really be talking about is Van Morrison, the poet.
If you are following Full Stop on Twitter, you already know that when the NYPD cleared Zuccotti Park two nights ago, they confiscated the People’s Library, consisting of approximately 5,000 books, magazines, newspapers and other materials.
Choking on Midtown smog this afternoon, I suddenly and almost involuntarily began reciting to myself lines of the following fable…
The Chinese government, in its quest for more and more resources, has stumbled across an ancient series of scrolls in Africa that document visitations from extraterrestrial life. From these scrolls they’ve also discerned a way to communicate with the aliens. Following the precise directions of the scrolls, they’ve constructed an intergalactic communication device…and wait…
Let’s take a sartorial trip back in time to our fear-filled childhood years, when a single choose-your-own-adventure Goosebumps book was enough to inspire weeks of nightmares.
This is what democracy looked like:
One encouraging aspect of the recent interest in occupation is that it has not been domesticated as a “campus phenomenon.” However, this doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t be looking with interest at what is occurring on our campuses.
More than anything, Twitter is a medium that lives and dies by its utility. Given its relationship to vernacular, a manual of style would compromise that aspect.
Get Over It: Why You Need to Start Reading on Your Computer
I’ve come to recognize that reading online greatly enhances the reading experience. Any avid reader with limited resources who is not taking advantage of the possibilities opened by reading on a computer or tablet is seriously depriving themselves.
“Why writers would be canvassed for their opinion on controversial political issues I cannot imagine. Their views have no more authority than those of any reasonably well-educated citizen.”
Book Cover Review: The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
Side-stepping all of the complicated issues and problems with marketing a book towards a particular genre, and marketing a book written by a woman, reading Atwood’s reflections on her own covers made me want to gather all of the covers of the last novel I read, 2006’s The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrel.