requires a great deal of hard work, always lauded or used as the first line of defense by the thin-skinned in Internet comment section arguments:“I’m not one of those elites, I’ve worked hard for everything I have!”– congratulations, that makes you elite, and there aren’t enough...
The edit weakens the song. It’s not just that the buildup to the last two verses is now too brief (the Bowie vocal fireworks start at 1:23 in the single, but don’t appear until 3:16 in the original), but the lyric’s also thrown out of whack. The original song opens with a...
While I was waiting for SOL inspiration to strike, Margaret Simon’sslicearrived in my Inbox. She shared her puppy-centered response to this morning’s Ethical ELA prompt. That prompt suggested using “The Important Book” by Margaret Wise Brown as a mentor for a poem. I, too, had written...
Funeral Dress is a band formed in Belgium in 1985. Not much of its music makes its way to Uganda. But I listened to their songParty Political Bullshit(2000) from their album of the same name when I was pursuing my doctoral studies at the University of the Witwatersrand (South...
. Each defensive movement although "hard" and "soft" may appear analogous to attack and defence, it is ones mind that makes the situation so. To be mindful is to understand each persons intention and inner meaning as it is uncovered, this is a true relationship to posture. One should ...