The Hurt Locker

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The Hurt Locker site -- HERE.
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What Ever Happened to Ricky Martin?

Endymion

The Sleep of Endymion, 1791 by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:

Its loveliness increases; it will never

Pass into nothingness; but still will keep

A bower quiet for us, and a sleep

Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing

A flowery band to bind us to the earth,

Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth

Of noble natures, of the gloomy days,

Of all the unhealthy and o'er-darkened ways::

Made for our searching: yes, in spite of all,

Some shape of beauty moves away the pall

From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon,

Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon

For simple sheep; and such are daffodils

With the green world they live in; and clear rills

That for themselves a cooling covert make

'Gainst the hot season; the mid forest brake,

Rich with a sprinkling of fair musk-rose blooms:

And such too is the grandeur of the dooms

We have imagined for the mighty dead;

All lovely tales that we have heard or read:

An endless fountain of immortal drink,

Pouring unto us from the heaven's brink.

 

— the first stanza, Endymion  by John Keats, 1818.

Spring 2010

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First sunrise of Spring, 2010, photograph by Donald L. Brooks

42nd Street at Night in the Rain

Video by Donald

H. M. Koutoukas Wake and Memorial

A brief moment from the March 11th wake and memorial at Judson Poets Church in New York City for H. M. Koutoukas --

Fly

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Evolution of Communication

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Year of the Tiger

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11 Rare Tigers Starve to Death at China Zoo

Selena

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H. M. Koutoukas

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No Peers

(for H. M. Koutoukas R.I.P.)

by Michael Townsend Smith

insignificant droplets hardly qualify as tears

yet wet

surely this life registers as one successs after

another

delirium replacing clear brilliance placeless

in a time of no cenacle no peers or academy

to fight back

what can you do no one knows the difference

Aristotle not the same

as if classical Greece was only an idea

forgotten

standards hardly anyone appreciates thirty

no forty years later

Olympus

is a church worth worshipping

human values in a time of money first

you write

and then you act it out

and then you go on being living

if you know what I mean

You're Not Making Any Sense At All!

Laika

The Secret of Kells