Posted in Poetry on March 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Though trackless deserts fail beneath our feet
And all around our junkie friends are dying,
The holy ghost is falling on the people.
Despite our souls that blaze more brightly the deeper
We descend, despite the truths we find,
The trackless deserts fail beneath our feet.
But even in this wilderness of steeples,
Where every wild horse is wire shy,
The holy ghost [...]
Posted in Friends on March 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Wiferino was playing Sorry. Missing my friend Jon today.
One icy winter afternoon in Boston
Jon and I were walking off our whiskey,
Stalking angels through the Combat Zone
And proud that every thing we did was risky.
The streets were empty and our steps echoed
Off the buildings in the quiet snow.
Jon could eat as much as me, and smoke
And [...]
Posted in Hüsker Dü, Minutemen, Music, Poetry, Punkity rockity music, Zen Arcade, sonnets on March 16, 2008 | No Comments »
Update: I have rewritten this poem. I think it’s much better now.
Art is the politics of the soul, its republic common
But the issues that it wrestles with complex.
Each convocation’s opened by a flamen
But gaveled to its closure by consent.
The natural philosophers of sound
Divine the base mathematics of the wind,
Abstract exalted ratios from the ground,
And reveal [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 16, 2008 | No Comments »
I completed the second podcast in the “InstantAction News!” series for InstantAction.com.
Posted in Committee to Protect Bloggers on March 16, 2008 | No Comments »
I was featured on The World Tech Podcast. It’s the podcast for Public Radio International’s program The World, which I’ve been on before. It’s an occasional conversation about global free speech and bloggers. I’ll be speaking to Clark again this coming week. We’ve got a very exciting campaign coming up over at Committee to Protect [...]
Posted in Dewi Sant, St. David's Day, Wales on March 1, 2008 | No Comments »
Happy St. David’s Day
This is the fourth time I’ve celebrated the saint’s day on this blog. Along with the leek and the red dragon, the daffodil is a symbol of Wales, of which David, or Dewi Sant, is the patron, and is associated with him. Where I live, in Eugene, Oregon, Davey’s Day is the [...]
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