(Dinah) D. P. Roseberry is not only a daring author, but also a delightful mentor-editor. One of her paranormal creation is that unexpected character of the hero rat! Deep thought is a haunting ratty thing. In her stories, words flow like a babbling brook over the mind ... Rats are a phobia held by many in today's world of nature fighting for survival over man; and Bethany Capri's fear of these loathsome creatures is only the beginning of a much larger problem! Rodenticider: Rank and File
Art of Living & Literature Across Frontiers: You Remind Me of Me Beauty ;-)
In life and art, beautiful bodies fascinate us against our will.
New York Times dance critic John Rockwell kicked up a minor tempest recently when he wrote, of ballet dancers, that 'looks do count: for dramatic verisimilitude, for romantic illusion, for box-office excitement.' That such self-evident assertions would register as controversial says something about where we are these days in our unsettled view of beauty. The dissonance in the culture runs deep. We tend to look at exquisite dancers, fashion models, gorgeous movie stars, even particularly lovely people in daily life as a slightly different species, part idols and part freaks who occupy an alternative plane... We see beauty as a trick in some ways, a genetic ruse paired with the money, privilege and private trainers to cultivate it
• The Unforgivable Sin Of Noticing Beauty: Ode to Lauren [Making Plucker versions of Jozef Imrich’s Cold River, Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture, Dan Gillmor's We The Media, and now Kimbrew McLeod's Freedom of Expression to read on PDA Go Puckers ;-) ; Better late than never The Long Tail vs. Lessig (Donna Wentworth) ]
• · Arts advocates in Massachusetts have staged a rally at the state capitol to demand that the state's arts council be restored to full funding after two years of draconian cuts But Hey, As Long As The Pariots Got Their New Stadium... ; ch, Politically correct politicians ‘squandered’ city’s year of culture... Did Scotland's politicians waste the momentum and creative good will wrought by the city's year as the European Capital of Culture? That's what the country's creative community believes, says a new study. Research into the cultural impact of the event in 1990 which brought Luciano Pavarotti to the city and generated up to £14m for the local economy reveals policy-makers being blamed for an exodus of talent and concentrating on quotas rather than quality Glasgow: Squandering Cultural Capital?
• · · In breaking biographical news, the skinny on Shakespeare is that he was syphilitic. Oh, and Lincoln was gay Made in their image like Alexander the Great ; Seven arts journalists have been chosen 2005 Fellows for the University of Southern California Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Program. A committee of six journalists chose the Fellows from an international pool of approximately 70 applicants from Australia, Canada, China, Ireland, Nigeria, Romania and the United States - Our very own: Joyce Morgan, The Sydney Morning Herald, Arts Editor New Perspectives for Mid-Career Arts & Culture Journalists
• · · · Fat is the new smoking; soon you won't be allowed to have a bar of it The war on fat; Exorcism Alive & Well As Priests Help Out The Haunted Sharing your home with ghosts and not sure who to call? Try the Anglican Church ; If Americans are flocking to religious faith, to revealed dogma, to creationism, to a place where no one pays any heed to a logic based on if x then y, it's because reason gave us a world that hardly makes sense anymore... Face it: People want Truth and Beauty. They want to be touched. They want mystery, because without it, life would be dreary indeed A Dawning Age of Unreason
• · · · · This is not about the politics, “Gunner Palace” is about the war from the inside out, told by the people caught in the middle. The Making of “Gunner Palace”; Don't Hold Your Breath On Campus - Where Are The Risk-Takers?
• · · · · · Yes it’s true. Jozef wants to get you in his dragon underpants. Bizarre and frightning dragons, some with human heads, fish scales, and virgin airline wings, suggest the dark beasts lurking in dragonkind The number 7 may look murky green (like Cold River), or the color red might smell of communist soap. G-flat on the piano might look like broken glass ; While only God can know and judge the heart of a man (or woman), we are told that we will know them by their fruits. Almost every musical interval provokes a gustatory sensation in her. A major third sounds sweet. A minor third, salty. A fourth has the flavour of mown grass. Only an octave is tasteless Musical Fruit Taste (Literally)