In the “Simpsons” episode “Homer Simpson, This is Your Wife” (March 26, 2006), Homer (Dan Castellaneta) becomes obsessed with the crisp images on an HDTV and decides he has to purchase one. To get the money, he enlists his family into a reality TV series called “Mother Flippers,” wherein the matriarchs of two families swap […]
“Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” –Samuel Johnson * Hangings will do that sort of thing: concentrate the mind. But how about a moral hanging? Does it concentrate the mind? And what is a moral hanging anyway? First things first. […]
SCATTERED SNOWS, TO THE NORTH , by Carl Phillips Some poets seek topics never before explored. Others look around and see what seems constant, from antiquity to today: autumn and winter; aging and death; erotic desire, and our regret if it fades. Carl Phillips belongs to that second group. He writes about those simplest, oldest […]
