McDaid honored for pioneering non-linear digital fiction
John McDaid, best known for the Hardeadlines blog, has been a digital publisher since the BI era (before internet). Now his pioneering efforts from that era are being curated, and saved for posterity, with the help of a National Endowment for the Humanities grant. McDaid’s 1993, hopefully-soon-to-be-a-cult-classic “Uncle Buddy’s Phantom Funhouse” is science fiction told [...]
Vegilantes
I heard it at the garden gate
Carrots, turnips, all irate
Lettuce, sprouts and green beans too
Angry vegetables in a stew
Footnote On Torture
Water-boarding, dehydration,
Thumb-screws and sleep deprivation
Torture’s a barbaric crime
That needs to end in our lifetime
Hold A Hand, Not A Mouse
Christian Mingle, Jewish Singles
Hindu Harmony, Muslim Match
Finding someone with your beliefs
Seems okay, but there’s just one catch
Far East Gone Too Far
Now they’re hacking our computers
Beijing sanctioning these looters
It’s time consumers turn the tables
Boycott goods with Chinese labels!
Fluffy Snow Friend or Foe
Admit it, we all welcome snow
First flurries cast a friendly glow
That smooth the edges of our world
A frozen patchwork quilt unfurled
Poem: Love Is In The Air
If Cupid flies through certain zones
He’d best watch out for killer drones
The message they send isn’t love
But rather death from high above
Poem: American Idle
Way back in 1929
It wasn’t odd to see a line
Of men in hats with brims down low
Collars up so folks won’t know
Teenage Testosterone And The Blizzard of ’78
We all have those, “Where were you?” moments in our lives. Now, on the 35th anniversary of the Blizzard of 1978 those of us who lived through it get to reminisce and have a laugh, a cry or just relive a moment from a simpler time when we all pulled together at a very difficult [...]
Poem: ‘Meditation On The Economy’
John Kenneth Galbraith, were he here and breathing, would probably be biting his nails with worry. This week we learned that the economy contracted for the first time since 2009. In words reminiscent of what was said in the midst of the Great Depression, economic commentators have said it’s just a one off event in [...]
Poem: Aiming Higher
We shoot our rifles in the air
The bullets land we know not where
We load them up and aim again
A firing squad of seven men
Poem: Adam Lanza and Mental Illness
When shooting children is the plan
We think of Al-Kida or Taliban
Men of terror who need to kill
Because they feel it is God’s will
Peace Through Progressive Poetry on Chomsky
here is greatness
born of the simple ability to discern truth
with courage to speak unvarnished
simple yet rarely ever easy
egoless measured surety
and look at me agonize over the polish of these words
under the diction beyond all rhythm
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