Counting Crows - "Mr. Jones"

More Yogisms
Baseball as Philosophy
Little League
Pro Baseball
Franchising vs. Home Team
Little League Parents

The image is George W Bush
in Little League

Memories of Thanksgiving in the 1960s

Coats on the Bed
Entrance Buzzers
Color TV Sets
Kid's Table
Pinochle
Mixed Nuts
The Bird
China and Silver

The image is Norman Rockwell's
     Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Day
   by Lynda Maria Child

The image is
   "Winter's Morning in the Country"
      by Currier and Ives

Yogi Berra - Catcher; Manager; Videocaster

The Wit and Unusual Wisdom of Yogi Berra

The Image is of his namesake Yogi Bear

Female Singers -

Hallelujah
Thunder Road
Rain On Me
Summertime
Songs Are Like Tattoos
Time After Time
Fever
Another Fever

A Little More On Cathedrals

Stained Glass
Vaults
Byzantium
Hagia Sophia
Crescent and Star
Pilgrimage and Commerce
Santiago de Compostela

The image is Santiago de Compostela

"The Feel of Clay - Part V"

As Luck Would Have It.

Dylan - Tangled Up in Blue

Cathedral, Part II

Buttresses

Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli

Commerce

Dome of St Peter's and St Sophia's

Double Domes

Test of Time

Glass

The Image is St Paul's 1940
London is being bombed and is burning

Orson Wells

The Begating of the President
Freedom River

The image is counter culture - 1965
Richard Fariña / Bob Dylan

A Tale of Samhain -

Elspeth Sapphire - "Burning Leaves"

Rosie the Cow

Al Gore

Cathedral of Rome

Oxford Cathedral

Wars of Religion

Bavaria

West Door

Altar

The image is of the nave at San Giovanni

100 Word Tales of Heaven and Hell

Wm. S. Burroughs and "the podcaster" recreate Dante

The image is a corporate trademark of:
The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company

Lewis Carrol - Beautiful Soup

The Last of Gaia

Katrina
Carbon Sequestration
Engineered solutions
CFCs
Northwest Passage
Greed
Peter Pace

Image is of Katrina filling the Gulf
 

Body Parts -

Hair
Eyes
Arms
Hands
Brain
Prostate
Skin
Feet

Christina Rossetti - Song
 

Planetary Homeostasis?
Feedback and Buffers
Go North Young Man, Go North!
Nuclear Power as a delaying tactic
Mayan Influence

The map shows the Northwest Passage is now open.
And, the Northeast Passage is almost open.

Ah, the commercial advantages of Climate Change.
 

Jake Holmes -

Dazed and Confused
Be All that You Can Be
I'm a Pepper, He's a Pepper
Raise your Hand
We Fly the World
Aren't You Hungry
Less is More
Prep School Boys

Marquette - "Orange"

The image is JMW Turner
   - "The Prince of Orange"

Remember the Quill!

Brown Cow
Palmer Method
Laddy Pencil
Kindergarden vs. 1st Grade

James Lovelock
Life reflected in the atmosphere
Rachel Carlson trace toxicology
Gaia - Feedback systems

The image is from the Palmer Method

Orson Wells - "The  Begatting of the President" Part I

Robert Kennedy
Richard Nixon

T. S. Elliot - Mungojerrie & Rumpleteazer

Photo is the RSPCA in Victoria Grove
 

What makes Noir?

Weak moral compass
Why Woody Allen is not noir
Movies on a human scale
Subversive

Double Indemnity
Body Heat

TV Themes from Long Ago

Bugaloos
Brady Bunch
Casper the Friendly Ghost
Chattanooga Cats
Courtship of Edies Father
Davy Crockett
Facts of Life
Mighty Mouse

Jack Kerouac - On the Road


Photo is Neal Cassady at the helm of "Further"

More Film Noir

Sunset Blvd.
Maltese Falcon
Chinatown
Double Indemnity
Blue Angel
Casablanca
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Metropolis

John Huston
Did TV Kill Noir?
Voice Over

More "Feel of Clay" Part IV

The Revenge of Pulp Fiction

Ferlinghetti - "Pity the Nation"

What is film noir?

Black and White (mostly)
Low Budget (usually)
Low Key Lighting
Moral and Sexual Ambiguity

Body Heat
Third Man
Touch of Evil
DOA
Maltese Falcon
Double Indemnity
Citizen Kane

Eight More 100 Word Stories from Tom

Jack  Kerouac -  On the Road

Photo is the original manuscript of "On the Road"

Political Correctness Continues
Women's Movement
Affirmative Action
Romeo and Juliet
Escalus (the playwrite and maybe the prince)

Eight Things - The Meme

Just Who is Tom?

A complete description.

Wislawa Szymborska

In Praise of Feeling Bad About Yourself

Political Correctness
States Rights
Political Speech
Sovereignty
Civility = weak PC

Orson Wells discusses American Presidential hopefuls 1952-1968

George Wallace / Curtis LeMay
Dwight Eisenhower / Richard Nixon
Nixon v. Kennedy
The fall of Johnson

From "I Shall not be Moved"

"Ailey, Baldwin, Floyd, Killens, and Mayfield"

by Maya Angelou

Food Fictions:
I will eat it later,
We can save money by buying quantity,
Dinner = meat + potato + over cooked vegetable.

Canning

Food of the goats.

TV Themes - Mostly Cartoons
Jetsons
Topcat
Magilla Gorilla
George of the Jungle
F-Troop
Astroboy
Bullwinkle
Bugs Bunny

Wislawa Szymborska

"An Unexpected Meeting"

Brands (as seen on TV)
Grocery Stores
Tom's Skirt
The Freezer

The Spiderman Variations

No pigs were harmed in the making of this podcast.

Marquette - Space Between

"Had we but world enough, and time"

Chicago = Meat
NAFTA
Morning vs. Mourning
Grits vs. Fried Chicken vs. Fish Sticks
Pot Pies vs. TV Dinners
The Challenge of Peanut Butter

The Next Eight Paragraphs of "Feel of Clay".
The gunfire rings out in Paris, or is it Las Vegas?

T. S. Eliot - Bustifur Jones from Cats

Life among the goats and gods.

Lyndon B. Johnson as seen by Orson Wells

A poem in which every word starts with a Y.

Y-Not, sounds like fun, Let's go.

The picture is a Y-Not Fullerene.

Billy Buck
Asset Forfeiture Laws
Pan vs. Apollo
20 foot Teddy Bear
Baphomet

Ancient Television Comedy;

It's About Time;
My Mother, the Car;
Captain Nice;
Car 54, Where are You?
Greatest American Hero;
Patty Duke Show;
Mr. Terrific;
Your Hit Parade

Bertolt Brecht / Kurt Weill

Tango Ballad
or, Pimp's Tango
or, Pimp's Ballad

The Evolution of the American Dream -
Immigrant Dream;
Dr. King's Dream;
Great Society Dream;
Lottery Dream;
Ailing higher Education

More 100 word stories.
Welcome to the Turkish prison.

Edgar Allen Poe - Raven

The founding myth of the United States.
From Plymouth to the American Dream.

The Next Eight Paragraphs of "Feel of Clay"

T.S. Elliot;
Macavity, the Mystery Cat

The End of the Templars

Two Dimensional Shapes;
Math and Symetry

Leonard Cohen - The Book of Longing

The Poor Knights of the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem;
Oct. 13, 1307

Ancient Television Theme Songs:
Bewitched;
Bonanza;
Adams Family;
Have Gun Will Travel;
The Monkees;
Rawhide;
Mary Tyler Moore Show;
Bat Masterson

T. S. Elliot - Jellico Cats

More or Wikipedia and Democracy -
Tragedy of the Commons
Formal Citation
Ambiguity
State Songs

Songs that are Stuck in My Head.

Robert Graves - "The Next War"
from "Fairies and Fusiliers"

In Defense of Wikipedia and Democracy

Tom's history with eight lyrical classical pieces.

Wealth Redistribution, from the poor to the rich;
Prescott Bush and Spike Lee;
Scooter Libby - Pardon Me

"The Feel of Clay"
The first eight paragraphs of a writing experiment.

T.S. Elliot - Naming of Cats

Herod's Tomb and Public Works;
Signs in the Sky;
Petra;
Camels;
T. E. Lawrence

Psalm 22 v. 1-11;
Attributed to David;
to the tune of "Doe of the Dawn"

Roy Lichenstein;
Andy Warhol;
Takashi Murakami;
Are they putting us on?
Eadweard Muybridge;
Heat death of the universe;
Painting sculptures

Eight Songs by the Firesign  Theater

Yip Harburg - Lydia the Tattooed Lady

Pop Art;
Jackson Pollock;
Roy Lichenstein;
Claus Oldenburg;
Andy Warhol

Cities that have greater than 10 mile visibility.
Cities with less than 1/4 mile visibility.

Sabine Baring-Gould -
Onward Christian Soldiers

John McCain;
Douglas MacArthur;
George McGovern;
Charles Lindberg;
Kerry v. Bush;
Was Mother Teresa just in it for the movie deal?

Latest in 100 Word Stories

Leonard Cohen - Flowers for Hitler

Heroes -
Who are they?
What are they?

1953 - What happened?

Two by William Blake

Kurt Vonnegut Remembered Part 2
bokononism; 
No Cat - No Cradle; 
Firestorm;
Death

Geek Fest 0010
Wrote a song with the "peek" and "poke" commands;
Ran a BBS;
Built a GUI for Wordstar;
created a 3D array

Sri Chinmoy -
My Jealousy is My Madness-Burden (excerpt)

Kurt Vonnegut Remembered

Geek Fest 0001 -
Setup a Mail Server;
Write a HTML editor;
Write a Computer Poetry Generator;
DOS commands

Spike Mulligan;
Samuel Johnson;
Woody Allen;
Wm Shakespeare

LHC;
WWW;
SSC;
ITER;
EAST;
Commercial Science;
The Standard Model;
Myth of the Manhattan Project;
Where's the money in that?

Games for a Desert Island -
Bridge;
Backgammon;
Fastback;
Go;
Bocce Ball;
Sudoko;
Yo Yo;
Shogi

Jane Goodall - Reductio Ad Absurdum

Coinage as myth -
Augustus Saint - Gaudens and Theodore Roosevelt
Rodin's Art Factory;
Double Eagle and Half Dollar;
Proof Coins;
MCMVII;
In God We Trust;
Milled Edge

Books for a Desert Island -
Lord of the Rings;
Another Roadside Attraction;
Flanders Panel;
World According to Garp;
Red Dragon Rising;
Mouse that Roared;
Name of the Rose;
Baroque Cycle

T.A. Marquette - Eroica Cliff

Talking with Mur Lafferty -
Geek Fu Action Grip;
I Should Be Writing;
Escape Pod;
Psuedopod;
Airwolf defined;
Essays - Where are they?;
"Playing for Keeps";
Finding the agent/publisher;
Novel vs. Short Story vs. Podcasting
For the full 1 hr long interview with Mur go
to booksandmusic.libsyn.com Number 1

Bat Out of Hell 2;
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini;

More Tombstones:
George Washington,
Jefferson Davis,
Virginia Wolfe,
Ruppert Brook,
Karl Marx

Escape Pod;
Algebra;
Homer Hickham;
Newton v. Leibniz;
Alchemy and Astrology;
Court Wizard;
Inquisition;
Fall of Granada;
Reconquista;
Pilgrims;
First Nations

Films for a Desert Island:
A Few Good Men;
King of Hearts;
Silence of the Lambs;
Back to the Future I;
Shawshank Redemption;
Shakespeare in Love;
Green Mile;
Animal House;
Meet Joe Black

Edgar Lee Master - Spoon River Anthology

Rod and Staff;
Fatwa;
Equinox;
Leap Year;
Happy Birthday Ghana;
Golden Gate Bridge Directors;
Ferries;
Flying Saucers vs. Loch Ness Otter

Eight more 100 word stories

Tombstones;
Wm Shakespeare;
Lady Morton;
Winston Churchill

More Money - More Scandals;
Does Paper Money Make Sense;
Taxes - The price we pay

Guilt, Guilt and more Guilt

T.S. Elliot - Hollow Men

New York World's Fair 1939;
Money - Good Idea, or Not?

The wit and wisdom of Yogi Berra;
Meat Loaf

Patrick Winstanley -
"The ABCs of Fruitiness";
"Little Miss"

USS Cole;
USS Liberty;
USS Pueblo;
SS Mayaquez;
USS Stark (gets its own podcast, soon)

Cigarette commercials and sex;
Another time, seen through  a smoky window

Patrick Winstanley - "How to Sex a Dinosaur";
"A Marriage Made in Heaven"

Science and Philosophy;
Karl Popper;
Thomas Kahn;
Intelligent Design and String Theory

More 100 word stories.

Springteen - "Thunder Road"

UK Tories;
Scotland Devolved;
Ninjas vs. Scots;
Holy Grail;
Pilgrimage;
Iran as Regional Power

William Blake - "A Poison Tree";
John McCrae - "Flanders Fields"

Of Coal, Pollution and UK Tories

Eight  Things I miss doing.

Desire - Samuel Taylor Coleridge;
Bird on a Wire - L. Cohen

In Defense of Television

Embedded cigarette commercials.

Early 20th century architecture;
Review of "Children of Men" (without the benefit of seeing the film);
"Hymn to Helios";
"to be yourself";
Interview Techniques

Eight Ultra Short Stories

Julian II - "Hymn to Helios";
ee cummings - "to be yourself"

Myths of American Architecture;
San Francisco City Hall;
The Elevator;
Pre Federal;
The White City (Chicago Worlds Fair 1893)

Carl Sandburg - "Young Bullfrogs"

Architecture: Greek, Roman, Federal, Neo-Federal.
Myths of Architecture

Eight 100 word stories about a kiss.

Myths of Defense and Defense Spending.
Is the Empire in Trouble?

Cigarette Commercials, Set 2

Carl Sandburg - "The Seahold"

Myths of the Middle East;
Myths of Civilization

8 stories of 100 words - 3rd set

Trumbull Stickney - Mnemosyne

Patriotism, the military and the national myth.

Songs of Christmas

Our 200th podcast!
Trumbull Stickney - Be Still, the Hanging Gardens Were a Dream

The National Myth of the United States of America:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."

Well, you know, linguistic fillers, I guess.
Why, uh, do we do it.

Fred G. Bowls - "An Insurgent of Art"

The Stern Report - Climate Myths and externalization

Long ago cigarette commercials.