Incandescence

Frankly, television is what you make it: I can watch an episode of Charmed and pull out all kinds of meanings and insights into my own life and the world ...

Superstring Theory is to our origin as Deconstruction was to Literature.

-.- If poetry can be anything (and presumably is), and let's not kid ourselves here, then there is no poetry. As an addendum: I'm not necessarily opposed to this idea, ...

There are no human rights. There are only human privileges.

Les Murray.

Yeah, if we hadn't gotten power back two nights ago, I was going to post a note saying you can all call me "Stinkandescence" from now on. But, that didn't ...

A few words about hurricanes: As I was standing on the street a few days ago, beside some early-20-ish lad I'd never seen before who was holding a handgun, it ...

As I've said, the Bible is the largest book of metaphorization one can find -- chock full of parables and such: to take it literally is to naively trust that ...

Usher is not the be-all and end-all of the religious timeline. God's gender had been discussed earlier (maybe you didn't see that), but I was unaware that in a discussion ...

I'm fairly certain that in the Judeo-Christian world there is no 'female' God: one should recall here Jesus's famous query, "Father, why hast thou forsaken me?" to see the existence ...

Any form of religion is simply an 'origin story' proper. What spurred the significant count-down at the year 2000 was man's desperate need for 'finality' -- for the conclusion of ...

Incandescence Poetry PM I am not a critic of grammar, spelling, or other atrocities; rather, my focus is the luminary from the nether-regions that spawned your poem. Rainbows, puppy-dog tails, ...

Belief is not about the contours of perfection but the context of imperfection. When you deal with Beings 'greater than the cosmos', it is quite possible that said-Beings could erase ...

Did you read my argument? It clearly states what I just said. In fact, it dispells that notion entirely.

Where art comes from isn't the subject at hand. How we determine the value of art, however, is.