tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post308193259360105472..comments2024-03-29T05:29:08.934-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/29/24: Flashback 2000: In the best poetry, there is love, horror — and truthNeil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-37966730885044904182021-11-25T04:48:05.194-06:002021-11-25T04:48:05.194-06:00James Dickey immediately came to mind for me here:...James Dickey immediately came to mind for me here: he wrote advertising copy for, among others, Coca Cola & Lay's potato chips before breaking out w/the novel "Deliverance." His poetry is better than his fiction, I think.J.J. Tindallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13381555158949851490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-89665015750454151482021-11-25T04:44:04.664-06:002021-11-25T04:44:04.664-06:00Indeed! Great stuff here.Indeed! Great stuff here.J.J. Tindallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13381555158949851490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-39139538235299560782021-11-24T20:44:16.818-06:002021-11-24T20:44:16.818-06:00Thanks for the testimonial for advertising as poet...Thanks for the testimonial for advertising as poetry, John. It makes me feel like the part of my brain that uselessly recalls so many jingles is not wasted after all. Coeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06130250489695215525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-4579273251625856692021-11-24T20:41:08.795-06:002021-11-24T20:41:08.795-06:00Very powerful and timely tale, Jakash. (Likely tha...Very powerful and timely tale, Jakash. (Likely that hedge fund manager had, on another day, lost much more money than that, but had not publicized it.)Coeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06130250489695215525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-79675274813341939052021-11-24T16:39:11.118-06:002021-11-24T16:39:11.118-06:00Addition of a surprising word or notion can make a...Addition of a surprising word or notion can make all the difference. "Will you still need me when we're sixty-four" is prose. "Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when we're sixty-four" is poetry.<br /><br />TomTomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-80735265900241408512021-11-24T15:43:04.962-06:002021-11-24T15:43:04.962-06:00Yes. That was the one. Thanks. Not sure if the Ohi...Yes. That was the one. Thanks. Not sure if the Ohio Forge image was also here previously. May have been somewhere else...pretty sure I've seen it before. <br /><br />Hadn't read that Frost poem in decades, maybe since college. Now I wish I had not looked it up. Couldn't get the images out of my head. Not good when you're trying to fall asleep. <br /><br />I got up and did some homework. The poem is based on a true incident that happened to his friend's son, while Frost lived in New Hampshire. They were also his neighbors. I never knew that portable buzz saws existed before World War I. One can learn so much here. Now I'm wondering how were they powered. Many farms had no electricity back then. 'Tis a puzzlement.Grizz 65https://www.blogger.com/profile/02892702223228764894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-51559719629415220302021-11-24T13:54:13.733-06:002021-11-24T13:54:13.733-06:00"It is not the man who has too little, but th..."It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more who is poor." SenecaTomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-92189576113917776922021-11-24T13:50:42.904-06:002021-11-24T13:50:42.904-06:00"A poem begins with a lump in the throat.&quo..."A poem begins with a lump in the throat." Frost<br /><br />"Poetry results from great emotion contemplated in tranquility." Wordsworth<br /><br />"Mad Ireland hurt him into poetry." Auden<br /><br />TomTomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-38783880675351763802021-11-24T13:31:29.702-06:002021-11-24T13:31:29.702-06:00Ah yes, poems are ideal for telling the truth, but...Ah yes, poems are ideal for telling the truth, but also well suited for lies...and hyperbole and seduction and braggadocio and whatever else you want or need to say. Some of the most unforgettable poetic bits are from advertising and don't say, "That's not poetry." The question of what is and what is not a poem has been conclusively decided as impossible to decide. But, guys, don't let girls have all the fun. You too can be an Emily Dickinson fan or fall in love with Dr. Seuss, as you read to your kids. It's all one to me.<br /><br />John<br />tatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088632798195131329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-67885472999572765992021-11-24T13:07:24.158-06:002021-11-24T13:07:24.158-06:00Re: enough. A story told by John Bogle, founder o...Re: enough. A story told by John Bogle, founder of The Vanguard Group.<br /><br />"At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history. Heller responds, 'Yes, but I have something he will never have ... enough.'<br /><br />Enough. I was stunned by the simple eloquence of that word -- stunned for two reasons: first, because I have been given so much in my own life and, second, because Joseph Heller couldn't have been more accurate.<br /><br />For a critical element of our society, including many of the wealthiest and most powerful among us, there seems to be no limit today on what enough entails." Jakashnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-4375456135522009452021-11-24T13:00:56.367-06:002021-11-24T13:00:56.367-06:00Shout-out to the EGD regular who made the comment ...Shout-out to the EGD regular who made the comment on Feder's website: Dennis Fisher. And of course to NS, a finalist for the Dorothy Storck Award from the Chicago Journalists Association.<br /><br />Fisher's "comment of the day:" "Steinberg is perhaps the best columnist in America. He simply states truths about the world around us that escape you. 'The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.' - Bukowski"<br /><br />https://www.robertfeder.com/2021/11/23/robservations-janet-davies-debuts-show-biz-podcast-george-papajohn-named-editor-propublica-midwest-deborah-douglas-wins-dorothy-storck-award/#commentsJakashnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-79577145771870480812021-11-24T12:22:20.559-06:002021-11-24T12:22:20.559-06:00This one was in Moonshine Mike Guzek's shop in...This one was in Moonshine Mike Guzek's shop in Ontonagon, Michigan. Yes I did more than three years ago, which is only "recently" to guys like us. But here it is: http://www.everygoddamnday.com/2018/04/cool-tools-3-wilton-tradesman-bench-vise.html<br />Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-3817007094772142602021-11-24T12:19:26.057-06:002021-11-24T12:19:26.057-06:00I'm glad you asked, I should have mentioned th...I'm glad you asked, I should have mentioned that. The typewriters are at the American Writers Museum on Michigan Avenue.Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-74535430853974162222021-11-24T11:30:54.857-06:002021-11-24T11:30:54.857-06:00Also, where did you find that great old Ohio Forge...Also, where did you find that great old Ohio Forge vise, Mr. S?<br />I believe they are still being made, right here in Cleveland. <br /><br />And didn't you write about vises recently? Couldn't find the story.Grizz 65https://www.blogger.com/profile/02892702223228764894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-82244783084474837542021-11-24T11:18:07.971-06:002021-11-24T11:18:07.971-06:00I'm thirteen years older than you, Mr. S--and ...I'm thirteen years older than you, Mr. S--and I was in J-school in the late Sixties. I learned to write, using pale yellow copy paper, on typewriters exactly like the ones in your image. Where is there still a whole roomful of them? And those pencilholders are a very nice touch. <br /><br />When I started, the J-school was housed in old post-WWII barracks and quonset huts. Some of our the typewriters could easily have predated the war. And we had to walk uphill...both ways and through wind and snow...to attend classes.Grizz 65https://www.blogger.com/profile/02892702223228764894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-49614309343229784782021-11-24T11:12:22.187-06:002021-11-24T11:12:22.187-06:00"For poetry makes nothing happen; it survives..."For poetry makes nothing happen; it survives<br />In the valley of its making, where executives<br />would never want to tamper." I read Auden for the striking images, and also the music, which much contemporary poetry seems to lack.<br /><br />And the wisdom, somewhat contrary to what Archibald Macleish once wrote: <br /> "A poem should be palpable and mute<br /> As a globed fruit.<br /> Dumb<br /> As old medallions to the thumb.<br /> A poem should not mean<br /> But be."<br /><br />Tom Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-36956519021162141602021-11-24T09:59:29.921-06:002021-11-24T09:59:29.921-06:00Your Mother's line is timeless, your next para...Your Mother's line is timeless, your next paragraph is brilliant, and your in Feder's comment of the day. A daily triple. Might want to try a lottery ticket tonight, you're on a roll.Connellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18406704590565406630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-44720285626122660022021-11-24T05:23:24.499-06:002021-11-24T05:23:24.499-06:00I'm thankful for your keen sense of poetry &am...I'm thankful for your keen sense of poetry & that you share it w/us often enough ("enough" is an idea more folk could use to understand). W/poetry I find you have to know what (if?) you like & where to look for it. It probably won't find you. I'm drawn to poetry set to music but not Bly's take so much. He kind of hammed it up, more or less "reciting w/lyre" & all that is cliche about that. Marianne Faithfull's latest CD of mostly classic British poems set to music by Warren Ellis is quite powerful, if musically overly ambient. Perhaps worth a taste. Thanks again & (I love this one!) Season's Greetings.J.J. Tindallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13381555158949851490noreply@blogger.com