A mirage of minds in verse

There are penetrating, erudite discussions of poetry in other places on this net – but there will only ever be scruffy, dog-eared and raffish disquisitions on the subject here. That’s a guarantee.
Especially for anyone groping for aspirin in the early hours of 1 January 2009 with screaming eyeballs and a thunderous head, this site offers, [...]

Yuletide mystery: avatars that can’t keep their clothes on

Consider, if you will, a nudist avatar. Don’t worry, for the moment, about what it has to do with Christmas – even if I was introduced to this mind-bending oxymoron in a casual discussion between two thirtysomething lawyers talking across me at a Christmas lunch. It has something to do with the idea being not [...]

A fanfare for the makers in this spot

One of the first and most generous bloggers to help start this still teetering and uneven site-in-progress – one month old today — is an artist who, I think, works in stained glass. He’s shy about mentioning his work, so I haven’t tried pinning him down on the question.
But he’s not the only ‘visual [...]

Comment-gobbler at WordPress

ISA and Hazlitt, sorry that you found ‘Comment awaiting moderation’ messages after your last two posts. They had nothing to do with me. I got the same treatment myself yesterday, trying to leave a thought-let or two at obooki’s place, and was flummoxed. Since that had never happened over there (after my first contribution), I [...]