Archive for October 2nd, 2008


Post-debate wrap: Palin, low standards and the new feminism

Posted on October 2, 2008 by Bonesparkle under Politics, Law & Government, Race & Gender [ Comments: 13 ]

I’m sitting here taking in what the collected punditry has to say in the aftermath of tonight’s Veep Debate. These aren’t direct quotes, but most of the comments go something like this:

  • “Well, she didn’t answer any of the questions, but she held her own.”
  • “She didn’t make any major mistakes.”
  • “I think she did a great job of not swallowing her tongue.” Full story »

WordsDay: The hegemony of poetry vs. lyrics, part 2

Posted on October 2, 2008 by Samuel Smith under American Culture, Arts & Literature, Generations, Music & Popular Culture [ Comments: 4 ]

A couple weeks I go I offered up part one in a series on poetry vs. lyrics, noting from firsthand experience the differences between the two. In brief, I’ve always felt like it was wrong to call rock stars poets – even if their words are fantastic, as they often are, the very nature of bending words to suit a song structure makes what they do a very different thing from what poets do.

In that piece, I looked at the song version of “Hegemony,” which I penned for Fiction 8‘s most recent CD, Project Phoenix. “Hegemony” was adapted for music from an existing poem, which I wrote for my most recent book, Chained to the Gates of Heaven (a book that is in search of a publisher, by the way – so if you know somebody….)

In this installment, Full story »