I got an e-mail from Zuhair the other day. It was the first in a while; a family emergency called him back to Jordan in the last weeks of September, and I’d heard nothing from him since. Apparently he’d heard almost as little from the courts on the status of his case.
With his permission, I’m […]
Fall is an interesting time of year. It’s a good time to hibernate, cuddle up and re-evaluate where we’ve been and where we hope we’ll end up. That is, to me, what’s behind Halloween and Day of the Dead. It’s a time when yesterday blends with today and tomorrow.
We are setting up our altar […]
Becoming A Writer, Chapter Fourteen: The Practice Story
As BurnzPost will be taking the months of November and December off, I thought I’d skip over the next two chapters* to get to something concrete that you could really use in the meantime. And so we arrive at Chapter Fourteen, where Brande outlines a method of going […]
María de la Luz González reported on the Catholic Church’s disdain for Halloween in her article in El universal. Here’s my translation:
The Archdiocese of Mexico called on all Catholics not to celebrate Halloween and not to dress up as monsters as this celebration goes against the Catholic faith.
The ecclesiastic institution dedicated yesterday’s edition of the […]
Becoming A Writer, Chapter Eleven: Learning To See Again
Brande begins this chapter with some words about habit and repetition, the “dullness of apprehension to which we all submit spinelessly” and how it feeds “the temptation to rework material … through thoughtlessness.” I would file this entire preamble under the heading laziness–laziness of eye and laziness […]
Week eight of the NFL season was one in which the stars shined. At this time of the year, the best players are beginning to perform while carrying their teams to victory in the process. With playoff positioning beginning to come into play, every win and loss is important.
Once again, Tom Brady put on one […]
The point I am trying to make here is that we live within a species that focuses on imperfection, oddities and perversions, probably since the beginning of life. So why shouldn’t we give the people what they want in order to make a buck? Why do you think […]
As I think about the thousands of ads there are in a single magazine, I cannot help but wonder. Why should I really care that Hulk Hogan uses speed stick deodorant, or that Preparation H is doctor recommended? These are problems that many people suffer I am sure, […]
Becoming A Writer, Chapter Ten: On Imitation
Again it may be that you feel that your writing is monotonous, that verb follows noun, and adverb follows verb, with a deadly sameness throughout your pages. You are struck by the variety, the pleasant diversity of sentence structure and rhythms in the author you are reading. Here is […]
NASA has been ordered by the U.S. District Court to reveal all its documents from the 1965 crash incident of what some believe to have been a UFO. The Air Force has claimed that it was a meteor, but due to the intense secrecy on the incident and the governments refusal to open its files […]
