If the Pope apologizes for insulting Islam, is he still infallible? Of course, as The Times put it, it's really a case of "German professor meets sound-bite...
The new movie about John Lennon should make anyone paranoid about opposing Bush. I was surprised by one thing in the film. The film seems to indicate that the...
http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/ (back at the old email: silliman AT gmail DOT com) ************************************* reading Friday 9/15 in NYC with...
MiX’D TriX Writers who Do Art Artists who Write At Tompkins Square Library Gallery Please join us for a Commingling of the Disciplines Opening: Wednesday,...
Fear is what quickens me, said James Wright. And me too. The news guys said Hurricane Ernesto was coming to New York. Yippee, I thought. I had planned to go to...
Sunday, September 10th, 5:30 – 7:30 : I myself personally & in person will be reading at High Chai (18 Avenue B, East Village) in Mike Graves's renewed...
Poets Hoodoo Collage Join curator Valery Oisteanu for a closing party and collaga-ganza at Tompkins Square Library Gallery and take home a collage! Wednesday,...
Little Miss Sunshine and Napoleon Dynamite end in triumphant dances. Both films portray outsiders. In Napoleon Dynamite, an outsider, a Mexican kid named...
I had locked myself out of my office at 105 Hudson and was sitting outside waiting for the super to let me reenter when one of the teenagers who live in the...
Wednesday was the Catholic Feast of the Assumption, a holy day of obligation. Mary's body is up there physically in heaven. Jesus Christ is also bodily up...
http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/ RECENT POSTS Laugh1ng M1rrors Puk1ng: Stacy Doris reinvents the world A note on comments On turning 60 Philip K Dick &...
I'm just checking to see if I am now hooked up to this conversation properly. I've been living in London for the past five years, three of those years writing...
For the time being I am calling the three new kittens God, Yankee Stadium and Canada. However the next three subscribers to the print edition of Unmuzzled OX...
The cat had kittens. They talk a lot in the sports biz about Naming Rights. The Skydome in Toronto was bought by Rogers Communications and is now legally The...
http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/ RECENT POSTS Visions of Kerouac – Clark Coolidge as literary critic Blog comments are back Sylvester Pollet and Backwoods...
http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/ RECENT POSTS Rebirth of the division between the School of Quietude and the post-avant tradition in Afghan poetry in the U.S. ...
Israel's deconstruction of Lebanon seems brutal and excessive. They're imitating Bush in Iraq. Some wars solve problems; this war may just make everything...
COLLAGE-A-TROIS please join us as Poets Do Collage and Read for You! at TOMPKINS SQUARE GALLERY PO-COLLAGE in East Village Curated by Valery Oisteanu Charles...
After the bunny, the most common critter in the iconography of Ray Johnson is the horseshoe crab. Early most mornings Ray liked to walk along one of New York's...
Is it true that Michael sold his blood for fifteen years to raise the money to purchase Andy Warhol's silver wig at auction? Inquiring minds want to know. ...
While going through my mail while watching a Mets game on my office TV, I came upon an offer from Verizon/AOL for a year of free high- speed broadband. I bit....
http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/ RECENT POSTS Lisa Robertson The Men Copyright on MySpace why your work may belong to Rupert Murdoch What is bad poetry, Robert...
I don't usually bother talking about such things, but... I was running for the bus the other day when I heard someone say, "run, you bitch". I wondered if this...
. Isaiah 53:2-12 may very well be the most profound verses in the entire Bible, because in them, THE MOST HIGH GOD leaves no doubt whatsoever as to the role of...
Here's our brindle boy, goode, the night we brought him home at one day less than 8 weeks- he is now 10 weeks and his ears are perking up towards the sky!...
I'm reading a biography of Philippe Petain, the French commander-in- chief in World War I and the chief-of-state of Vichy in World War II. He went from hero to...
