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Or Does It Explode?

On Lanston Hughes' "Harlem"

Posted byChristoph01/02/2023Posted inpoetryTags: American Dream, American literature, black history month, langston hughes, Lit, poetry, riot, usa, violenceLeave a comment on Or Does It Explode?

Beauty Pill’s Blue Period

A consistent theme of my late thirties is that I’m discovering or appreciating bands that I could’ve already loved in my twenties.

Posted byChristoph31/01/202331/01/2023Posted inpop cultureTags: bandcamp, beauty pill, blue period, dischord records, indie rock, Music, punkLeave a comment on Beauty Pill’s Blue Period

To Remember Tyre Nichols

Remember the skateboarding video. Never forget the what led to the other footage.

Posted byChristoph29/01/2023Posted inPoliticsTags: black lives matter, Memphis, skateboarding, Tyre Nichols, usaLeave a comment on To Remember Tyre Nichols

Etel Adnan: Writing Is Another Form of Drawing

On the Lenbachhaus exhibition and her books.

Posted byChristoph28/01/2023Posted inpoetryTags: art, California, Etel Adnan, Lebanon, Lit, München, poetry, quote, writingLeave a comment on Etel Adnan: Writing Is Another Form of Drawing

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

"All stories are recycled and all stories are unfair."

Posted byChristoph15/01/2023Posted inpoetryTags: booker prize, novel, reading journal, Shehan Karunatilaka, Sri Lanka, The Sellout, the seven moons of maali almeidaLeave a comment on The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

2022 was, for many of us, sometimes very lovely, sometimes very difficult.

Posted byChristoph24/12/202225/12/2022Posted inpop culture

If you can’t stand for right, you just stand for wrong.

When I first heard Can't Stand by John-Allison Weiss, the song hit different.

Posted byChristoph27/11/2022Posted inpop cultureTags: get better records, john-allison weiss, queer, song, usa

Books I’ve Read July-September 2022

It’s been a long year, and there is still a lot of year waiting to deteriorate. I’m trying get back into the habit of not only reading, but of reading and writing about it.

Posted byChristoph01/10/2022Posted inpoetry, pop cultureTags: books, life, litertature, writing

I Need Reminders

Laying in a comfy chair on my balcony, half in the shade, half in the sun, with a good book, a perfectly lovely summer Sunday. And yet. I'm not supposed to be here, I'm supposed to be on the road to Stuttgart to see Touche Amore live in Stuttgart, a band that has been tremendously …

Continue reading "I Need Reminders"

Posted byChristoph03/07/202201/10/2022Posted inpop cultureTags: life, Lindau, Music, Touche Amore

A Woman’s Life by a Guy

Guy de Maupassant's novel points at the privilege to just live and the nothingness the nobility makes of it.

Posted byChristoph09/01/202209/01/2022Posted inpoetryTags: 19th century, france, naturalism, novel, quote, review

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