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It's Oscar season, and I thought it would just be helpful to remind you of some reasons to be skeptical of the Academy.

Reasons to hate the AA:

-Great directors who were nominated, but never ever one best director: Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Federico Fellini, Robert Altman, Akira Kurosawa, Yasuijio Ozu, Ingmar Bergman among many others never won a golden statue, much less win a nomination.

-Foriegn films are neglected by being put into the much ...

On the basis of a passing reference to a novel I will never read, I became curious about the ancient Chinese art of foot-binding; and this being the era of the internet, decided to see what I could find on the subject, which turned out to be enough. The research I did was not deep, but I found pictures and articles, some of them scholarly, enough in fact to include a few of those details in the following poem. I left out a great deal.

But of course I was interested in why. The origins ...

The old guy whispered in Lisa Marie's ear, it was loud enough for me to identify it as a language I do not comprehend. LM handed me the yellow packet, and said, "He says that you should make a poultice with it." "Divide it into six parts for three applications, it has to be in a cotton wrapping." I am sure I looked at her like she was crazy. She said "He wants you to put it on both ankles, not just the bad one, you can leave them on for no more than two days, but at least ...

Do you ever get the feeling, that after reading a poem of such immense greatness that you feel like you owe a debt to the author? Well I've been somewhat struggling with this for some time, and have now discovered my way to express my almost religious respect of poets is to create a series of the poems themselves. Of course the poems that I shall include are of a pure personal bias. For example, I certainly plan to include Sonnet 66 of Shakespeare's sonnets, before I include something more well ...

there was a fire last week in the city next to my town and one young man died. I found out today when his name was on the news the this is an old friend and ex/almost boyfriend. when I was 18 I had a big crush on him. I adored him he was so smart and sweet and funny and tolerated all my weird things but didn't let me get away with any crap. one night thing just happened for us when we were alone like so often we met a few times with new thoughts for each other but he was doing a bit of illegal smoking ...