Tag Archives: Leonard Cohen

trench warfare

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Dave

The fact that an item is potentially useful has no relation whatsoever that it will actually be put to good use. In fact, poor use, may actually infer a greater value, an honorific value on the owner. Burberry has been … Continue reading →

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poetry and pond games

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Dave

The cultural ghetto to escape from or to remain in? Smaller ghettos within the vast metropolis. Finding the vastness of the universal within the small and comparatively isolated. Northrop Frye was known for his theory of the Canadian what he … Continue reading →

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everybody knows : too long in exile

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Dave

Everybody Knows. As Palestine steps up to the plate with a request, a demand to be granted statehood. Like the story Casey at the Bat by Ernest Thayer, we know the game is fixed, and Casey will whiff. Is this … Continue reading →

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“fulsome” press room blues

Posted on July 24, 2011 by Dave

The problem is that there are always multiple ways to render a true account. And is lying always wrong. No doubt, lying is a complex issue, but the truth is equally foggy and ambiguous. So as News Corp brought their … Continue reading →

Posted in Madame Pickwick Weekend | Tagged andy coulson, benny hill, Christie Blatchford, Damon Runyan, eric pickles, ian leslie born liars, Leonard Cohen, Oscar Wilde, rebekah brooks, Rupert Murdoch, tabatha Southey, Tiny Tim, wendi deng | Leave a comment

a fire in the head: the wild tune

Posted on May 14, 2011 by tai

Writing poetry that sings by guest blogger Tai Carmen who maintains a weekly blog called Parallax:A place for dreamers Tai Carmen ( www.taicarmen.com): If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. ~ Leonard Cohen My grandfather was … Continue reading →

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recycling plastic fantastic : less than zero

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Dave

There is no question that gender and sexuality are the principal dynamics that underpin all modern marketing. This portrayal, the first division, the first cut of the economic and social pie, though ostensibly comic, even droll, is in fact ideological … Continue reading →

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PICASSO & IDEALS OF PEACE: Better Red than Fed

Posted on January 2, 2011 by Dave

Pablo Picasso found himself in Paris during World War II. Stranded……. Overall, reading through Matisse’s correspondence with Camoin in La Revue de l’Art (12, 1971) makes me suspect that Matisse’s behavior during Vichy had little to do directly with the … Continue reading →

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HE COULDN’T MAKE THE HILLS

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Dave

I can’t make the hills The system is shot I’m living on pills For which I thank G-d I followed the course From chaos to art Desire the horse Depression the cart I sailed like a swan I sank like … Continue reading →

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TAKE A WALTZ: A Kampf of Bohemian Rhapsodies

Posted on October 31, 2010 by Dave

Now in Vienna there’s ten pretty women There’s a shoulder where Death comes to cry There’s a lobby with nine hundred windows There’s a tree where the doves go to die There’s a piece that was torn from the morning … Continue reading →

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ROUSSEAU & THE COUCH IN THE JUNGLE: Landscape of Hallucination

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Dave

It’s been said, oversimplistically but sympathetically, that “he didn’t know the rules well enough to break them”. But of course there are no rules in the kingdom of the imagination.He knew he was a babe in the woods of high … Continue reading →