tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post3283324815334559496..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Head Shots, Close RangeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-63594557138296215592010-06-09T03:18:48.325-07:002010-06-09T03:18:48.325-07:00Otto,
Yep. The "coverage" on this one, ...Otto,<br /><br />Yep. The "coverage" on this one, in the mainstream media in this country, has sounded like it was coming from a yokel wearing a Dupe Me sign. Mafia style executions in international waters, and the media have given equal time to the fabrication of dark weaponry supposed to be in the hands of these possibly slightly dingy but certainly very badly fucked-over boat people. (The Swedish novelist and others have explained that the "weapons" in fact were pretty much a Bic razor.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-39894936137951057842010-06-08T16:31:01.738-07:002010-06-08T16:31:01.738-07:00I worked in journalism for a long time and at this...I worked in journalism for a long time and at this point my outrage is less about this incident than it is about how there are so many of these incidents and there is not enough outrage. The whole thing disgusts me -- and the media on the whole disgusts me too.~otto~https://www.blogger.com/profile/08859835662556335529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-42479231050525815692010-06-07T09:50:27.192-07:002010-06-07T09:50:27.192-07:00And it was cheering to find it there, Steve. As al...And it was cheering to find it there, Steve. As always our link to life.<br /><br />Moon gone, bright sun now poking out through cloud here (9.30)...<br /><br />About "waning": thinking about events signified in this posted article creates numb dead feeling as of having been shot in back of head by rubber bullets. In punishment for thoughts? -- or too much coffee? Must consult a pillow.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-8762810241878256412010-06-07T08:51:54.700-07:002010-06-07T08:51:54.700-07:00Tom,
Not waning too much I hope. What with all t...Tom,<br /><br />Not waning too much I hope. What with all these clouds, no moon sightings lately (though blue is beginning to burn through now, maybe it will be seeable soon? Meanwhile, a still unsullied (by oil) pelican 'appears' in last line of today's poem, giving some hope (I hope). . . .STEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-46054991300463961982010-06-07T05:51:47.524-07:002010-06-07T05:51:47.524-07:00hb,
All the world's a stage, but it seems in ...hb,<br /><br />All the world's a stage, but it seems in this country most of the audience is seated behind a pillar.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-1384626074071882010-06-07T04:05:08.714-07:002010-06-07T04:05:08.714-07:00ladies and gentlemen...
the first act of the play ...ladies and gentlemen...<br />the first act of the play has come to an end... have a short break... then enjoy more action!!!human beinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09232419187783429903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-4546082435376679672010-06-06T09:17:03.502-07:002010-06-06T09:17:03.502-07:00Steve,
Yes, I know that further-along-in-its-wani...Steve,<br /><br />Yes, I know that further-along-in-its-waning feeling... perhaps a bit too well, this week.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-14402885554336839112010-06-06T09:09:53.044-07:002010-06-06T09:09:53.044-07:00Thanks Tom, and yes, "out out damn spot"...Thanks Tom, and yes, "out out damn spot" -- I'm still thinking of those poor oil-soaked red pelicans you showed us yesterday, of course (saw others flying about here yesterday, free as birds. . . .). Saw that moon up there yesterday morning too, later in day, further along in its waning than the one in TR's lovely photo above "Matins."STEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-30148646860723575012010-06-06T08:37:13.603-07:002010-06-06T08:37:13.603-07:00"...the truth leaks out out, drop by drop, th..."...the truth leaks out out, drop by drop, those trying to stop it won't be able to -- so also in the gulf alas..."<br /><br />similar perspective, working<br />with perspective frame<br /><br />The Blanqui question: parallel universes, or same one, repeating itself over and over?<br /><br />(Steve, that inadvertent, interesting double "out" puts me in mind of "Out, damned spot! out, I say!")TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-51966041334543074502010-06-06T08:22:00.062-07:002010-06-06T08:22:00.062-07:00Tom,
Pretty grim stuff, huh -- the truth leaks ou...Tom,<br /><br />Pretty grim stuff, huh -- the truth leaks out out, drop by drop, those trying to stop it won't be able to -- so also in the gulf alas. . . .<br /><br />6.6<br /><br />grey whiteness of cloud against invisible<br />ridge, blue jay lifting from pine branch<br />in foreground, sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> similar perspective, working<br /> with perspective frame<br /><br /> there, as sight could appear<br /> present, fact of which<br /><br />line of fog on horizon across from point,<br />half moon in cloudless blue sky above itSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-66057143806810104542010-06-06T07:58:02.199-07:002010-06-06T07:58:02.199-07:00Tom Raworth links to another informative Guardian ...Tom Raworth links to another informative Guardian piece: an interview with flotilla boat passenger and Swedish crime novelist Henning Mankell, who says <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/03/gaza-flotilla-attack-henning-mankell" rel="nofollow">"I think the Israeli military went out to commit murder"</a>.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com