Thursday, June 30, 2011

Best Opening Lines, A to G (to be continued)

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Poems must start with terror in mind. The best poems grab you by the throat and don't let go. One line. Two perhaps. But the deal is the...

Great Scenes from the Movies #1

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Remember this from "Adaptation," the 2002 Charlie Kaufman/Spike Jonze collaboration? One of my favorites. Cage at his finest. T...
Monday, June 27, 2011

Two from Round Bend Press

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I posted my first publication on Lulu one day approximately 18 months ago. My novel, "The Friends of Round Bend," didn't becom...
Saturday, June 25, 2011

Face to Face with Deemer

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Deemer goes Whitman in the following self-penned interview: The publisher has suggested that I interview myself about the genesis of my book...

Deemer's "In My Old Age" Published Today

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Charles Deemer's new book of poems is now ready for sale at Lulu. This is a nice addition to the Round Bend Press lineup, a look at the ...
Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Portrait of the Artist in His World

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From Round Bend author and artist K.C. Bacon comes this sketch of a painter's world. Is it autobiography? PAINTER'S BLUE Next to a g...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

An American Hero

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While the American plutocracy (or oligarchy) that is the U.S. Congress picks the dried shit balls out of it collective ass day after day and...

My Prophecy Re: Oregon Football

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The corruption at my university, sadly, appears to run into the murky depths. I'm talking about the football program. In a post last sea...
Saturday, June 18, 2011

The Big Man Falls

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Clarence Clemons' signature sax line on "Jungleland" starts at 4:21 of this rendition filmed in Hyde Park, London just two yea...
Friday, June 17, 2011

Poem

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The Insane Lover's Question how did it come to this that I became an insane lover of the world's madness & th...

Early July Release Set for "In My Old Age"

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Deemer's book is coming along nicely. I've read half of it and really like what I see from this accomplished writer and adjunct prof...
Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Next-- A Book of Poems by Charles Deemer

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Photo of Deemer by his wife, Harriet. With school out of the way (for now), it is time to move on to another project (or two). I'm looki...
Tuesday, June 7, 2011

There is Much to Be Done (African Studies)

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Well, I did it! I turned in my final history paper today at PSU, and provided I didn't completely blow the assignment I have earned m...
Monday, May 30, 2011

Vinh-Kim Nguyen's "Republic of Therapy"

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This is the third of my required response papers to the texts I've been reading for my "History of Health and Healing in Africa...
Saturday, May 28, 2011

U.S. Bank Robbery

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As if more evidence need be offered of the class war that is making the good old USA such a bitch, I cite a letter I received from US Bank r...