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Made Graceful - … things are never that simple … This is from ‘The Bestiary of Marianne Moore’ found in The Uses of Literature: Essays by Italo Calvino, translated by Patr...7 hours ago
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The Managed Heart: Emotional Labor and the Psychological Cost of Ambivalence - What are you unwilling to feel? This is one of the most brutal, most clarifying questions in life, answering which requires great courage and great vulnera...1 day ago
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The Easy Life on Cruise Control - Life is so damn easy for me. I don’t have to plan for the future because Evangelical preachers say Armageddon is coming. Until then, conservative politici...1 week ago
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Barbara Sabol and Erica Reid named 2024 Ohio Poets of the Year - The Ohio Poetry Day Association has selected *Barbara Sabol* and *Erica Reid* as our 2024 Ohio Poets of the Year. Congratulations to these two amazing wr...4 weeks ago
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Stay away from the pool - My mother & I were visiting a friend of hers who was living in an apartment complex that I regarded at the time as positively palatial, what for the commun...1 year ago
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In Memory of Ed Ochester, Poet & Editor, RIP - We have asked Ed Ochester (above) to edit our Sunday poetry pages for the next few months. Here is one of Ed's poems: March of the Penguins The editor of N...1 year ago
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Big day today with the publication of my While the Undertaker Sleeps: Collected and New Prose Poems. It contains all of my books, plus a very large new section and a long memoir. You can find it at https://www.amazon.com/While-Undertaker-Sleeps-Peter-Johnson/dp/1952335590/ref=sr_1_1?crid=342C90A7P3DZE&keywords=While+the+Undertaker+Sleeps&qid=1685616911&sprefix=while+the+undertaker+sleeps%2Caps%2C147&sr=8-1 - The post Big day today with the publication of my While the Undertaker Sleeps: Collected and New Prose Poems. It contains all of my books, plus a very la...1 year ago
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“In spite of all the learned have said ...” - Philip Freneau Philip Freneau (1752-1852) was a journalist and poet in the early years our country was forming. And, oh, by the way, I once wrote an under...3 years ago
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Lit Youngstown Hosts Heather Dobbins & Barbara Sabol - I closing in on scheduling Lit Youngstown's 2021 First Wednesday Readers Series, and we're soon hosting the last reading of 2020. It's one of the many...4 years ago
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Jason Tandon - Born in Hartford, CT in 1975, Jason Tandon is the author of four books of poetry, including *The Actual World*, *Quality of Life*, and *Give Over the Hec...4 years ago
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Announcing the 7th Annual Self-Published E-Book Awards Winners - Congratulations to the winners of the 6th Annual Self-Published E-Book Awards! Grand Prize Steel Hand, Cold Heart by Rachel Menard (rachelm...4 years ago
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How to Be a Tree out now - it’s here! https://zaphos.itch.io/how-to-be-a-tree Advertisements5 years ago
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the dance of conquest is going to have to wait | museum of memory - . [image: Refugee, Tzasac, Guatemala, 83 | by Marcelo Montecino] *Refugee, Tsazac, Guatemala, 83*: photo by Marcelo Montecino, 6 September 2014 [image: R...6 years ago
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Feeding therapy FINALLY!! - There is so much to catch up on and yet so little. I have noticed that the last year has felt like an inward journey and so telling a story hasn’t fe...6 years ago
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Let Yourself Be Awesome: On Overcoming Disappointment - On Saturday, I completed my first 12-mile run since 2005, and I aced it. My overall pace was 8:02 per mile, but the final two miles were in 7:44 and 7:49--...7 years ago
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Voices in Italian Americana reviews Paola Corso’s “The Laundress Catches Her Breath” - Paola Corso’s poems about women’s work and lives bring to life an intimate and fragile world without a hint of sentimentality. Take “Step by Step with the ...7 years ago
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One year gone ... - *Meeting Mark Mothersbaugh* Today marks one year as editor of *Fresh Water *for me. Man-o-man, what a ride it has been. Despite the intensity of the job, o...7 years ago
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I'm still here - Just posting here to let anyone know (whoever is still dropping by from time to time) that I still haven't disappeared, I've just been spending time away f...8 years ago
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2015 Mini Gift Guide - A mini last-minute gift guide...it's been quite some time since I've posted. But I love the holidays so much and sharing gifts that I think would be great ...8 years ago
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In a Landscape - The Playlist - John Cage, “In a Landscape” Bob Dylan, “My Back Pages” Neil Young, “Ambulance Blues” The Twilight Zone Theme Babylon 5 Theme Simon & Garfunkel, “Richard Co...10 years ago
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5 comments:
That responder on the lower right looks awfully familiar.
Our household posse of furry responders (exterminating angels with muddy paws) have a way of boxing the troll about the ears just a bit, before the final deletion (application of amnesia).
A tad cruel maybe, but it's nature's way.
I don't have to worry about trolls at my blog because almost no one reads it. An advantage of anonymity. Like an advantage of proledom: you needn't worry about conforming to correct bourgeois deportment at all times.
A dictator may have a lot of fun, but he always has to worry about some treacherous minion garotting him while he's feasting on chicken cordon bleu.
Your drawings are charming.
It sounds naive to find the existence of blog trolls surprising, but still I do, even after staring various nasty scrawlings in the face. Of all the forms of minor fame one might pursue, blog trolling must be the most minor. Still, a couple of years ago I found myself in conversation with a couple of college students who I like (their parents were friends of ours in college) who passionately defended anonymous/pseudonymous posting in "letters to the editor" columns -- who said that they would never sign their names to their opinions and felt that doing so was unnecessary and somehow wrong. There was no point in continuing the conversation over a pleasant dinner, but I wondered what kind of adults they would become and why their parents didn't step in? Although this isn't the same as blog trolling, these kids are already walking the same paths as the troll and some of them will certainly take his turn-off. I love your drawings also. Curtis
I totally agree with your point here, Curtis. I think there is something about not being willing to stand behind your words that is both wimpy and creepy. I also think it creates a platform for sociopaths.
But then sometimes I am not even sure if the trolls are real.
I am reminded of those bots that people meet and date on dating sites.
My first lawyer job was as an Assistant District Attorney in Brooklyn. On that job I saw the many terrible things people do to each other. Most of the time, you could make sense of them, but sometimes you couldn't at all. I think your comment about sociopaths is astute. I understand the possible utility of dating sites and have spoken to some acquaintances you have used them, but I'm glad I'm not in that particular market. As for the anonymous comment question, I wrote a short letter to the online newspaper published by my college a couple of weeks ago suggesting that they return to a policy of requiring all correspondents to sign their (real) names to letters. Under their current system, letters like mine could be voted "up" or "down" by the mob. Enough "no" votes and your letter is masked -- literally hidden from view. My letter proved insufficiently popular. I'm really disappointed in those kids, but more so in the faculty and administration who are supposed to guide them. As you may know, Swarthmore was originally a Quaker school and they exploit the Quaker connection whenever and to the extent it suits them. Sending anonymous correspondence is SO un-Quaker. Curtis
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