The people who passed HB2 now want to unpass it because they hate teh queers, love the money and fear the people. [Note: Please forgive the snark in this post. I’m in one of those moods, but despite the tone this is a wholly factual analysis.] The yahoos who run my native state of North Carolina have been a marvel to
Read moreRIP Santa Claus: 300-2016 AD Go tell the kids – Santa ain’t coming this year.
Read moreWhat do you see in this image? When you take macro shots of orchids and process them for abstraction, people frequently respond this way:
Read moreRemembering the blackest moment of the entire nativity cycle is an odd way to celebrate. For a couple weeks now I have been assembling my “Dark Christmas Melancholy” playlist, a process I described in a post a few days ago. While I have listened to (and sung) a lot of holiday music through the years, my little project introduced me to a
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Can new procedures tell us who killed the child pageant queen? Were there multiple murderers? According to NBC News, “new DNA testing is planned in the unsolved murder of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey.” The news was first reported by NBC affiliate KUSA in Denver, Colorado, and by the Boulder Daily Camera. The two news outlets did a joint investigation in October
Read moreYesterday I added Greg Lake’s “I Believe in Father Christmas” to my Dark Christmas Melancholy playlist. This morning I wake to learn he’s gone. Another light snuffed by this hellish, hateful year, and the holiday season just got a little darker…
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There is beauty in the darkness. This is all I have ever known. Beauty doesn’t work the same for me as it does for most people. I first started realizing this in Mr. Booth’s (excuse me, Dr. Booth’s) English V class at Ledford High School in 1978 and 1979. I remember two moments distinctly. First, we read “The Eve of St.
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Here are your 8 tournament teams if we had a sensible college playoff system. The NCAA Football Selection Committee today will issue its final rankings, and in doing so they face some tough choices about who gets to play for the national title. This is because NCAAF, unlike every other sport, doesn’t allow everyone with a claim to settle it
Read moreGreen Lady’s Slipper Orchid
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“Tree of Wisdom,” by Alexander Tylevich – Regis University, Denver
Read moreColor is hope. There’s beauty in the darkness. I have always known this. It isn’t much. but it’s all I have. #HopeTuesday #shinealight
Read more2016 has snuffed another brilliant light. Sharon Jones, one of the icons of the neo-Soul revival in the last decade, is dead of cancer at the age of 60. Scholars & Rogues honors the heart and soul of Daptone Records.
Read moreMy favorite versions of the greatest pop song ever written – goodbye, Leonard 2016 took Leonard Cohen, one of popular music’s true iconic geniuses, from us this week. I have said before that I think “Hallelujah” is perhaps the greatest popular song in history, and as evidence I would simply note that it has been covered countless times by an
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