A Category Index

 

Blog Highlights (some of my favorite stops)

    What if...?

    The Family Man

    And he’s written a book too...

    Three Gems Found via Blogrush

    Do You Review Back?

    A Blogging Empire

    Have You Ever Been to Tai Shan?

    Guest Blogging, Slots, and Haiku



Book Club Discussion — The Man Who Walked Through Time

    Book Discussion Blogs

    The Man Who Walked Through Time

    Book Club Discussion to Begin This Week

    Vast Expanses of Space and Time

    Dynamic Rhythms

    A Curiously In-between Existence



Fill in the Gaps 100 Books in 5 Years (Reviews)

    Filling in the Gaps

    Review:  Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse



Frankenstein

   I’ve Created a Monster

    The Natural, the Supernatural, and Overreaching

    Society, Isolation, and Achieving Greatness

    Truant Fathers

   In His Image

    Shaking a Fist at the Maker

    Why Am I Me?



Gender Issues

    An Interesting Intersection

    Men, Muses, and Masculinity

    Gender Reversal

    Are Math Departments Finally Catching Up?

    He Can’t Be Un-neutered... can he?

    Reading with an Agenda

    Dichotomies and Oppositions

    Otherness

    Feminism FAQs



Great Expectations

   Answering a Challenge

   Refined Speech and Coarse Talk



Historical Fiction

    A Sense of Place, in so many words

    A Time and a Place

    Just Give it to Me Straight

    Any Suggestions?

    Recommended Reading:  Singapore

    Recommended Reading:  Shanghai

    New Ethics for New Technologies



Hit (or Miss) Lists

    September 2008

    October 2008

    November 2008

    December 2008

    January 2009

    February 2009

    March 2009

    April 2009

    May 2009



Movies

    Star-crossed Lovers

    The Bible in One Hand, and Shakespeare in the Other

    Mute Testimonial

    When Art is Taken Over by Pop Culture

    Slings and Arrows (television)

    Love and Power (or is it the Love of Power?)

    Poetry and Politics (Max)

    I Saw it Against My Better Judgment, but... (Kung Fu Panda)

    Back By Popular Demand (The Matrix)

    Shakespearean Tragedy in Asian Cinema



Heiner Müller

    Titus Anatomy Fall of Rome

    Hamletmachine



Popular Culture

    When Art is Taken Over by Pop Culture

    Is Popular Culture Worth the Time?

    James Bond, Superman, and Umberto Eco

    It’s a Plot

    Reunion with a Childhood Friend

    The Poetry of Music

    Resource for Fiction Writers



Poetry

    The Poetry of Edwin Morgan

    Poetry and Translation

    Poetry and Politics

    Reading “Spain”

    The Text

    One Summer, a Thousand Days

    A Different Approach

    A Sustained Metaphor

    Speculative Poetry, August ’08 update

    Catching Up

    Reading with an Agenda

    Speculative Poetry, Sept ’08 update

    Something to Celebrate

    Speculative Poetry, Oct ’08 Update

    Disruptive Uses of Language

    Speculative Poetry, Nov ’08 Update

    Animated Poetry

    Review:  Yellowrocket

    Speculative Poetry, Jan ’09 update

    Lines Written in Pencil

    Speculative Poetry, Feb ’09 Update

    Why Speculative Poetry?

    The Music of Poetry

    The Poetry of Music

    Speculative Poetry, March ’09 update

    The Haibun

    Speculative Poetry, April ’09 update

    Community and Creativity

    On Reading a Poem About the Poet Reading a Poem

    Taking Things too Far

    Speculative Poetry, May ’09 Update



Racism

    Racial Politics in Action

    Sometimes You Find What You Are Looking For

    I Don’t Know How She Did It

    Lines Written in Pencil

    Taking Things too Far



Shakespeare

    Cross Dressing and Disguise on Shakespeare’s Stage

    The Importance of Garments and Dress in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline   

    I False?

    The Troubling Question of Genre

    I Met William Shakespeare Yesterday

    Star-crossed Lovers

    The Bible in One Hand, and Shakespeare in the Other

    Mute Testimonial

    When Art is Taken Over by Pop Culture

    Love and Power (or is it the Love of Power?)

    On Oedipus and Hamlet

    I’ve Been Deceived

    Review of TNT Britain’s Hamlet

    Shakespearean Tragedy in Asian Cinema

    What’s so Tragic About Tragedy?

    The Ingredients of Comedy

    Staging and Redefining

   Shakespeare for a Cartoon Generation

    When Hamlet Meets the Godfather



Speculative Fiction

    Speculation

    After the Fire

    The Postman

    Music of the Future

    Sam’s Dot Publishing

    The Cyborg and the Bionic Man

    The Robot and the Android

    New Ethics for New Technologies

    Robot Rebellion



The Stage

    Mute Testimonial

    On Oedipus and Hamlet

    Gender Reversal

    I’ve Been Deceived

    Review of TNT Britain’s Hamlet

    Titus Anatomy Fall of Rome

    Hamletmachine

    What’s so Tragic About Tragedy?

    The Ingredients of Comedy

    Robot Rebellion

    Staging and Redefining

   Shakespeare for a Cartoon Generation

    The Actor as Puppet

    When Hamlet Meets the Godfather



Translation

    A Lack of Competence in the Target Language

    The Guardians of the Gate

    The Wonder of Words

    Poetry and Translation

    Are You Fluent in the Language if You Don’t Know What a Plunger is Called?

    The Meru Project and Anna Wierzbicka



Word Study

    Resolution

    Knowledge, Learning, and Wisdom

    Where There is a Will



Memes and Things

    Introduction

    Good Advice for Bad Blogging

    I’ve Been Roared At

    What do I Expect from this Blog?

    Answering a Challenge

    Answering an UnMeme

    My Life in Six Words

    Haves and Have Nots

    Blogging Start

    Things You Didn’t Want to Know

    Someone Thinks I’m a Literary Geek... can you believe it?



4 Books Battles

    Shakespeare Resources

    Time Travel



Other Stuff

    In My Completely Objective, Unprejudiced, Fair-Minded, Unbiased, and Humble Opinion

    Well, What Do You Know?

    How Much is Too Much?

    What Santa Brought

    My Newest Godson

    Intersections in Reading

    An Agenda

    The Purpose of Life

    Executive Jet Charter

    The Dawn of Understanding

    I Don’t Know Much About Writing...

    I Love My Apple

    Doing Things a Little Differently

    Get Paid to Write Reviews

    I Can’t Believe I Made the Cut

    Am I Really Saying What I Think I Am Saying?

    Free Audio Books for Download

    Update After the Storm

    Constructing a Good Argument

    The Ethics of Giving

    Getting Back on Schedule

    A Good Life

    No Idea is Perfect

    Deadly Optimism

    Too Clever for His Own Good

    Taking Things too Far




Chronological Archive



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