There were people singing this song together who, politically, had nothing in common and probably wouldn’t have talked to each other…. It’s just the story of a little guy against a big world. It’s not so much an anti-war song as a song against stupidity…
We got to listen to Grendel gorging flesh and griding bone in the mini-van on the way home from church today…
You think you’ve heard about swords, and heroes, and fire-breathing dragons, and friendship, and glory, and treasure, just ’cause you’ve read those Potter books? C’mere, boys, let me tell you a tale…
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It makes a sensational, controversial headline: A Harry Potter-centered curriculum boosts a failing school into the top 5 percent. Students must recite a spell (“numerus subtracticus”) when answering math questions.
But on closer inspection, this turns out not to be just a school carried off into frightening conformity to the current fad. Whatever [...]
Stories are always told in specific historical contexts, but the human condition always brings us back to recurring issues, thus:
Teatro La Fragua used “neo-medieval post-modernism” to stage the story of Noah and the Great Flood in a relief shelter after Hurricane Mitch, and Paul Chan is staging Waiting for Godot in the Lower Ninth Ward [...]
Ian over at Upper Fort Stewart in The Scariest Books I’ve Read says:
There’s two days left till Halloween. If you’ve got any scary stories yourself why not blog about them and link back here so we can read them or post a comment. I can’t be the only guy around still afraid of Morlocks can [...]