The Problem with Paul Ryan
Region: Wyoming
Paul Ryan has the eyes of a cold-blooded killer. He's a good liar, but not a gifted liar like his boss, Mitt. (America likes a gleeful con man. It gives them hope.) Ryan lies, but with a hangdog look, as if his consc... more
Views: 648Big Bird Replies to Mitt Romney
Region: New York
Quotations from Big Bird: "Hello, boys and girls. Welcome to Sesame Street!" "Let's take a break, Elmo!" "A question is what you ask someone when you want to find something out." "... more
Views: 807Mitt Romney Fires Big Bird!
Region: New York
"I love Big Bird, but I'm still going to fire him!" revealed Mr. Mitt Romney, in the agonizing First Debate of the United States of America Presidential Contest, 2012. The naked relish with which this Republican stan... more
Views: 1091"Karma Yoga" by Shrii Shrii Anandamurti
Region: New York
This is my guru, so it's difficult to be objective. These are discourses mostly from the late 70s and early 80s. (I like how they cite the place also, at the essay's end: "15 October 1979 Morning, Nagpur".) Baba (as ... more
Views: 634A Tale of Two Cities: Marcus Boon and Copia
Region: New York
I'm proud of my friend Marcus for defending the indefensible -- the multiple, maddening and redundant copies produced by contemporary capitalism -- without defending capitalism itself. In Praise of Copying, his lates... more
Views: 736"The Undiscovered Self " by C.G. Jung
Region: New York
I liked this book better before I read it -- the distinguished black cover, with its thought-provoking illustration: the profile of a man's head, in white, with a smaller, multicolored profile inside, superimposed by... more
Views: 655"Sparrow!" by Edmund Tubb /"ANTLER" by elinor tubb
Region: New York
This is what's known in the trade as a "double," two books that are bound together. Almost always, each is upside down in relation to the other. As far as I know, they are always paperbacks, and they were usually pub... more
Views: 565A Limerick on the Subject of Mitt Romney
Region: New York
A vain politician named Mitt As president wanted to Sitt. He said, "I'll keep 'God' On our money,"* and trod About, neither with wisdom nor Witt. *Mitt Romney seems to th... more
Views: 1682"Letters to a Young Poet" by Rainer Maria Rilke, translation by Joan M. Burnham
Region: New York
When you read the exquisite poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, you imagine that the poet knew numerous elusive, intuitive truths. Well, guess what? He did! And he poured them out to a virtual nonentity, a guy named Franz Kappus... more
Views: 1007"The Pronouns (Experiment #2)"
Region: New York
I saw "The Pronouns (Experiment #2)" by Clarinda Mac Low at Mount Tremper Arts on June 9. The show began outside the hall, with two children hopping on a trampoline, while a man shouted out instructions from The Pron... more
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Sparrow avoids refined sugar and National Geographic magazine, but he enjoys all jokes, including:
Tourist: Excuse me, but do you have a pumpkin patch?
Farmer: Why, do you have a leaky pumpkin?
His latest book is America: A Prophecy -- The Sparrow Reader (www.softskull.com).
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