scottydog wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2023 11:06 pm
If those competitions exist, you should submit your poetry, even your old poetry from 20 years ago. I think you'd become Poet Laureate.
I don't know about that, but I may see if I can track down some markets for poetry. Hopefully it will help spread my name around.
Very true. The Beatles deserve to be venerated. What two other bands from that era also deserve heroization?
There were a lot of great bands in those days, but in terms of innovation, both musically and lyrically, The Who springs to mind. Also CCR. Honorable mention goes to Cream, but they were more of a supergroup and they didn't do a lot.
I should read more Frost. But I'm too lazy
He's well worth it, but you have to be in a relaxed frame of mind with plenty of time-- you don't want to be in a rush.
Bits and pieces. It's an infuriating piece of literature. So much of it is duller than dull. So much of it is utter bullshit. And yet so much of it also contains great wisdom. The makers did a terrible job of editing the final product.
I read it when I was very young because it was quoted so often in the flying saucer books I was reading at the time.
I found it a weird and fascinating look into an ancient civilization. I also skimmed the Apocrypha when I was older, which is even weirder.
Have you read any parts of the Quran?
No, no other religious tomes. I think I have a copy of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, but I haven't read it.
Why do you object to being eaten by raccoons?