Barry’s BlueSky- Untitled May 1, 2024A new cartoon for May Day! This has been an incredible year for unions in the USA - may next year be even better. Unions Have Always Done The Impossible! #PoliCartoon #Union #LaborDay2024 #MayDay2024 #May1st #UBI #LivingWage
- Untitled April 30, 2024People on reddit are fighting about a cartoon I did about why the US health care system sucks and I am enjoying this too too much. https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1ch0l0r/why_us_health_care_is_such_a_terrible_system/?sort=old
- Untitled April 30, 2024I just posted a new cartoon! It's patreon supporters only for now, but in a week or so I'll make it public. :-) https://www.patreon.com/posts/deus-ex-machina-103359912?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
- Untitled April 30, 2024Nothing against Brian, who of course needs and should make a living. But I'm increasingly frustrated by the Substackization of blogging/news writing. To read Brian's work I have to subscribe, which at the lowest price level is $75 a year. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
- Untitled April 30, 2024Cartoonists and illustrators: Watch out for this scam (it's been going around for a while, but I only heard about it recently). Person emails you wanting to commission a bunch of illustrations to go with a presentation. Pretty high offer. At the end, they mention they want to pay you by check.
- Untitled April 29, 2024Why U.S. Health Care Is Such A Terrible System #PoliCartoon
- Untitled May 1, 2024
Category Archives: literature
Persian Poetry Tuesday: Forugh Farrokhzad's "Grief"
Forugh Farrokhzad was the most significant female Iranian poet of the twentieth century, corresponding most closely, in terms of American poetry, to Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. Her poems are political, feminist, sexual, erotic, breaking almost every taboo that existed … Continue reading
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Persian Poetry Tuesday: Conversation in the Dark, by Nader Naderpour
Nader Naderpour was born in 1929 in Tehran. He studied literature at the Sorbonne in Paris during the 1950s and in Rome in the 1960s. He began publishing his poems in the 1940s and is counted among the leaders of … Continue reading
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Persian Poetry Tuesday: from Saadi's Golestan
It’s been many years since I believed in a god the way I did when I was younger and I thought I wanted to be an orthodox rabbi. I’ve written here about one of the reasons I gave that belief … Continue reading
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Reza Aslan, Editor of "Tablet and Pen," on The Colbert Report
Tablet and Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East, published by Norton, is a new anthology of (obviously) Middle Eastern literature. Here, the anthology’s editor, Reza Aslan, is interviewed on The Colbert Report. My favorite line is when Aslan … Continue reading
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Persian Arts Festival's Shab-e She'r Written Up on America.gov
Check it out: In a New York Bar, a Place for New Persian Poetry. Jeff Baron does a good job overall, though I think he makes me sound dismissive and trivializing about the traditional Shab-e She’r in the way that he … Continue reading
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Persian Poetry Tuesday: from Saadi’s Golestan
The best thing for an ignorant man is to be silent, and if he understands that, and practices it, he will no longer be ignorant. If the learning you possess is less than perfect, keep your tongue tucked safely in … Continue reading
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Persian Poetry Tuesday: A Quatrain by Rumi
If you don’t catch the scent, don’t walk down this lane. If you won’t undress, don’t enter this river. This is the source of all directions. Stay on your side, don’t come over here. –Translated by Iraj Anvar and Anne … Continue reading
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Went to See Maz Jobrani Last Night
I took my wife and my son for their birthdays, which are a day apart later this month, to see the Iranian-American comic Maz Jobrani last night at Town Hall. He is very talented and very funny. One of the … Continue reading
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Guest Repost: Tansy Rayner Roberts–Joanna Russ's How to Suppress Women's Writing Is a Book that Must Not Be Forgotten
The following is a response to Joanna Russ’s How to Suppress Women’s Writing, reposted with permission from Tansy Rayner Roberts. Roberts is a Tasmanian writer with a fantasy trilogy called The Creature Court coming out from HarperVoyager starting June 2010, … Continue reading
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A Bit of Literary History on my Bookshelves
So this is kind of cool. I have been entering my books into Sente, a really fine bibliography software package if you’re on a Mac, and I came across these two books of poetry that I took from my grandmother’s … Continue reading
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