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What Is Photomontage?
My Etsy powered website is here: https://www.thomasfarleydesigns.com What is photomontage? What do you want it to be?
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I Think This Says it All
As long as people remember what manifest destiny means.
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Are Writers Made or Born? by Jack Kerouac (transcribed for the first time!)
I transcribed this article from two image files at the Writer’s Digest website. I have introduced line breaks of my own to make the text more readable online. This is a six minute read. Kerouac reserves the word “genius” (and … Continue reading
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Fear Follows Like a Shadow
This is really odd. The green screen trade in still or static photography is well developed and has been steadily growing over the last ten years. Weddings, conventions, special events, all of them have been incorporating green screen booths as … Continue reading
Bob Dylan and T.S. Eliot
Dylan read Eliot for the most part not at school. Voluntarily, the best way to go. As I understand it, Dylan read lightly and not deeply, as he did with the Bible. It reminds me of Bono with U2, his … Continue reading
And This is How You Get a Nobel Prize
Idiot Wind by Bob Dylan Selected lyrics: Someone’s got it in for me They’re planting stories in the press Whoever it is I wish they’d cut it out quick But when they will I can only guess They say I … Continue reading
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Rhodesia Repost from Last Year
This needs to be said again. And again. Before free speech and accurate histories are regarded as only important to white racists. Updated September 22, 2021 As Long As a Free Man Breathes There Will Always Be a Rhodesia When … Continue reading
The NYT, Ukraine, and The War
The New York Times still cannot condone war under any conditions, even with the complete justification that Ukraine has to defend itself. “All across the United States, small groups of military veterans are gathering, planning and getting passports in order. … Continue reading
The Poetry of Sara Teasdale as Read by Ghizela Rowe
I’ve mentioned Sara Teasdale’s simply worded poetry but before (internal link) but not at length. Like A.E. Housman (internal link), no Greek, Latin, or Great Literature is required to understand their poetry. Much tragedy in her life, own ended by … Continue reading
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The Irrelevance of Writing Assessment Tests to Online Writing
Q: Why aren’t writing assessment tests relevant to online writing? A. Because it’s far easier and quicker to recast a sentence than to research a problem. Q. Can you give an example? A. Sure. Take the title of this post: … Continue reading