OctPoWriMo Day 1 and dVerse — Devil’s Food

image link Devil’s Food Shriveled kernel planted deep virgin soul watered with milk of human cruelty warmed under a dark sun born rabid appetites borne goats laugh bones crack interdimensional black hole sucking vortex never sated   Morgan hosts OctPoWriMo and I am hosting dVerse today. Morgan says: Free write about your, “Dark Night of…

Movies, Movies, Movies! #5 10/1/19

Dirty John (2018) Starring: Eric Bana, Connie Britton, Julia Garner, Juno Temple, Jean Smart Director: Alexandra Cunningham Synopsis: The main character, Connie (Britton), decides to continue online dating after serial duds and finally comes across the man of her dreams, a gorgeous doctor, John (Bana), or so she thinks. As the title suggests, if it’s…

Coloring Club Plus — 10/1/19

The Mirror Pool is Lisa Gerrard’s first solo album, released by 4AD in 1995 (one year before the release of Spiritchaser, the last work Dead Can Dance issued before disbanding in 1998). Gerrard explained the album title: “If you read about African music, they believe that during the process of making this music that you…

dVerse — haibun — Surprise!

As each morning brings the ritual of opening all of the blinds, windows, and sliders, so does the dusk bring their closing. At times, the ritual is disrupted when heavy storms blow rain in; depending on the wind’s direction doors and windows are closed accordingly, to keep out pooling water. One such afternoon, when the…

#FFFC — A Place to Grow

Finding a place to grow food in the city was becoming an emergent crisis. Overpopulation forced building housing on every square inch of land that wasn’t streets or sidewalks. The price of food, both at grocery stores and at farmers markets made it unaffordable to most. Growing one’s own became essential. Bands of like-minded (and…

Coloring Club Plus — 9/29/19

The 1966 Live Recordings is a 36-CD boxset of live recordings from the 1966 Live Tour by Bob Dylan, released on Legacy Records in November 2016. It includes every known recording from the tour, including audience tapes. Most of the set was unreleased at that point and some tapes never circulated before. Apparently they have…