I hope Al Qaeda is watching Crazy Heart tonight, wherever they are. I hope they're getting a bond of humanity with us, looking up Townes Van Zandt on iTunes. Maybe singing. Getting the guitars out. Letting the fire rip. Maybe the recording equipment, too. "Oh, did you see Once?" Who knows, maybe Bin Laden secretly likes The Pogues.
It's hard to carry hatred that long, when there's music.
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Thoughts from an obscure literary life. Your average joe as literary critic, writer, poet, social commentator, cultural observer, barman, wine enthusiast, Irish-Polish American.
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- DC Literary Outsider
- Washington, DC, United States
- Gandhi tells us to be the change we want to see in the world. I wanted to see a blog on writing. Not necessarily the craft stuff, the things you could learn in a classroom, but the basic matters (and mysteries) of creativity, depth and subject matter. I am a veteran barman of Washington, DC. My novel, A Hero For Our Time, a modern retelling of Hamlet, is available on Amazon.com. (My thanks to Mr. Lermontov, God rest his soul, for allowing me to nod to his singular classic.) What makes writing literature? Writing will always be an art form to honor.
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