Looking at Lovecraft
“Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon.” —H.P. Lovecraft, “Beyond The Wall of Sleep” Maybe it was the “night gaunts”...
Tokio Hotel: Love is De...
Wir lieben sie. Ja, Tokio Hotel. Identical twin brothers, vocalist Bill Kaulitz and guitarist Tom Kaulitz, met drummer Gustav Schäfer and bass-guitarist Georg Listing in 2001 in a Magdeburg club, where Bill and Tom Kaulitz were performing. First they were called Devilish, which is a...
Killer Plants
Yesterday’s beautiful poem and the accompanying image invited some lively reflection on the peculiar talents of carnivorous plants. Insects and arthropods—maybe even humans—beware! These plants have odd appetites. And you have to admire their sneaky methods of attracting killing...
Amor Oscuro
Is Spanish the language of darkest love or is it French? Today I vote for Spanish. And to prove my point: a little bit of Francisco X. Alarcón’s DE AMOR OSCURO (Of Dark Love)—sonnets in the Neruda tradition. Alarcón writes in Spanish (this poem translated in to English by Francisco...
Dead Love Lovers
It’s unusual … but apparently some publishers and booksellers LOVE zombies. Bless them. Stone Bridge Press and Book Passage are making it easy to pre-order DEAD LOVE. All you have to do is hit the Stone Bridge link here or in the banner. Or, you can go directly to Book...