Joseph Campbell Lectures now on iTunes

April 6, 2009

The Joseph Campbell Foundation has begun releasing audio lectures on iTunes—the first series replicates the content from the out-of-print CDs and tapes released by Highbridge, and there’ll be more series to follow. More info from the JCF website Signing up for a free Associate membership at the website also gives you access to transcripts and [...]

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Sites to Inspire the Imagination

April 2, 2009

I’ve been considering the state of my imagination lately. It’s done pretty well over time, in spite of the various beatdowns of Western culture, but I’m always looking for places I can get fresh fuel. The websites below have been highly inspirational of late, so in case you find yourself in my boat. here are [...]

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Dancing Machine

February 20, 2009

Sometimes, you just need a hit of it. Today’s expression of pure joy:

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For all my fellow writer peeps…

January 14, 2009
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Prop 8 – The Musical

December 3, 2008

‘Nuff said.

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Mad farmers

September 17, 2008

OK, one more for today. Found a wonderful Wendell Berry poem, “The Mad Farmer Liberation Front” courtesy of Slacktivist. In light of current circumstances, the last stanza particularly resonates: Go with your love to the fields. Lie down in the shade. Rest your head in her lap. Swear allegiance to what is nighest your thoughts. [...]

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Obligatory Election Post

September 17, 2008

Wow, two in one day? What did they put in my latte this morning? I could go into a long ramble, but since I already did that once this morning, I think I’ll just post the best summation of the McCain campaign I’ve seen so far . From The Confabulum: Presented with the possibility of [...]

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Things We Used to Know

September 17, 2008

This will be a rare long one…I’ve been thinking a lot about apocalypse lately. It’s not quite what it sounds like. What I mean is that all indicators seem to be pointing to a time where a lot of the way I (and most of the Western world) live is going to change due to [...]

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Not abandoned, exactly

August 5, 2008

This blog, that is. It’s just that right now, most of the action is going on over here: Set Your Guts on Fire. Grad school is going well; the second quarter’s been rough overall but is ending with a little less panic than the first one. I go back down to Santa Barbara next week [...]

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Catching Up

June 4, 2008

You can tell, probably, that my first quarter of grad school ended recently…May was a pretty dry month here, but rest assured that lots of writing was happening elsewhere. Almost 20 pages of high-quality academic prose flew from my computer in the 2 weeks before Mother’s Day. Results? Straight A’s, for the first time ever. [...]

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