Christian Molenaar

Author: cdmolenaar

  • This Staggering May Day

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    In fact, I’m improving.This staggering May Day—Lacking your presenceA solid week—I nonetheless hearYour telephone voiceIn a luxury of trust,A swell of thanksMy memory bearsNo precedent for.Further, I seemNear sane in the mirrorsI’ve passed since dawn. Read more

  • Avant et après le dernier samedi d’avril

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    Wednesday marked 56 years since the day in 1970 when raza activists planted the Chicano flag in protest of a planned CHP station in Barrio Logan. Read more

  • White Telephone

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    The day Rome was founded, April 21, but April 21, 1937. And so it was movies and Rome and babies and Mussolini and Papa the great industrialist, all together for a photograph. Read more

  • The Subjective

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    Video from last month’s Religion & Art event at Goldsmiths is now online, including this great panel discussion I had with Drs. Harri Hudspith, Nina Danino and Teresa Calonje about Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Avila, Julian of Norwich and of course somehow I ended up going on about Spinoza and Deleuze. Read more

  • Hardly One Copy Would Sell Here

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    Rejection letter sent to Gertrude Stein by A. C. Fifield, April 19, 1912 Read more

  • Manhunt Through Maryland

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    At first the sound had no meaning.The shot came from the balcony,as if the play had sprung an annex,and I, John Sleeper Clarke,pictured stars through oak scaffoldsas the news traveled overthe chairscape like a stain. Read more

  • Cretins

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    Escondido’s Team Cretins put together this show with a number of other mutual aid organizations to raise funds for the AIDS/LifeCycle ride from SF to LA. Benefit shows pretty much always mean the bill comprises basically anyone who will say yes, so this particular show featured tall:shadow alongside other rappers plus cumbia, hardcore and teenage Read more

  • Resurrection

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    I returned from Paris last week after showing Strophische Gedichten to enthusiastic crowds in London, hobnobbing with directors and producers, meeting Slovenian writers and professors of architecture, sharing a panel discussion with leading academics on medieval mysticism and generally feeling cultured and educated. My first gig back in San Diego was at a barbecue joint. Read more

  • Background Music

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    Tove Jansson, Sun City Read more

  • Ash Wednesday Feast

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    In 1818 the Paschal Full Moon fell on Saturday, March 21st, making March 22nd the earliest ever Easter Sunday (by both the Western (Gregorian) and the Orthodox (Julian) calendar), a date which will not recur until 2285. So why does Tokarczuk pick March 1st for Ash Wednesday, which would place Easter on the impossibly early Read more

Thought:

“Painting taught me that things don’t exist in themselves. They’re created by the relations between them.”

Robert Bresson

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