The Human Chronicle

Money is madness. There’s no running from its pull, hiding from its foul siren. My one goal these past few months has been to make enough money to survive, and with consumer trust in steep decline since the boom of gas prices, food shortages, and the crippled housing market, the difference between humanity as we’ve [...]

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/books/The-Novella-blog?src=rss
It’s brilliant ideas like this that get lost in publishing’s industrial roar. Maybe there’s hope for us, still.

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/07/07/080707crbo_books_kirsch
 
Dead at twenty-five, Keats had already earned a seat at God’s side. This is a fantastic article for anyone interested in publishing, poetry, or I-told-you-so successes.

http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2008/07/07…
Caught my attention, because I think I’d expected something else. Not a poem. It’s still early, and my memory is for shit these days. Madness will do that to you. But, I know a few good poets (even if in secret) who might enjoy this, and take it as a kick to the crotch [...]

I guess I could spend all day rummaging through my feeds for content, but I ain’t got the time right now. Being relatively new to this environment (as a writer, the word Blogosphere is ugly), I get sidetracked easily by the bright shiny objects piling up in my reader. But, I’ll get to it. Maybe [...]

A report about Congress agreeing to fund four hundred million dollars to covert operations designed to destabilize religious authority, supply munitions to dissident organizations, make intelligence contacts, and undermined nuclear development in Iran. In spite of “troubling aspects” of the Presidential Finding, a top-secret classified report on any new covert operation, Congress approved and covert [...]

from Time Magazine: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1818197,00.html?xid=rss-topstories
In an attempt to attract young couples, the Church has no problem “revising” earlier interpretations of scripture. The fact that quality sex between married couples is essential for healthy, mature relationships has nothing to do with the bible, scriptures, teachings, or Jesus. Rev. Stacy Spencer and his wife are misusing biblical scripture [...]

Can’t say for sure what was behind my previous post. Like Connolly said, about the hours in which he could be trusted with a pen….It can get ugly around here sometimes, and I’m not always in the most coherent mood before three in the afternoon. Tirades are common; par-for-the-course, as they say.
To be honest, I’m [...]

I’m still amazed when I find someone who not only doesn’t believe in God, but adamantly rejects any possibility. And not to fall back on clichés about faith, but the fact remains that because you can’t physically see something doesn’t mean it’s not there. Experiencing God, like experiencing gravity, flows through our other senses, and [...]

The first few lines trickle across the airwaves, and the message is always the same, always brow-beating and chest-thumping, and those who trade stock in the fear commodities rake in a small fortune when the gates open at nine and the bulls run wild through the streets. The end of the world is always within [...]