Christian Molenaar

Author: cdmolenaar

  • The Fourth Dimension

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    All this, and still more the treasures which had come to the church from personages who to me were almost legendary figures (such as the golden cross wrought, it was said, by Saint Eloi and presented by Dagobert, and the tomb of the sons of Louis the Germanic in porphyry and enamelled copper) because of… Read more

  • Hotfoot @ Open Gate 5/3/25

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    Hotfoot finally put out our album in January but I’d swear we had this show booked before it was even written. Nathan’s 50th birthday is in a couple weeks which means the end of his 12 Records Towards 50 project is nearly upon us. I should have gotten him a cake, but I guess a… Read more

  • Three Fragments Overheard in Tucson, AZ

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    Scene: a Tiki Bar. Read more

  • 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

Thought:

“Poetry restores language by breaking it.”

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