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Enough Whining: Break Time (2015-08-18)
The Poet In Our Culture: But I’m Not Bitter (2015-08-17)
Poetry And Anguish (2015-08-16)
Escaping From Reality (2015-08-15)
Write: Sobriety Is Hazardous To One’s Health (2015-08-14)
Reading: The Light To Be Found In Darkness (2015-08-13)
Surprise, Surprise, Writers Read! (2015-08-12)
The Truth Is Dangerous (2015-08-11)
Telling The Truth (2015-08-10)
The Need For Truth (2015-08-09)
The Need For Narrative (2015-08-08)
Good Advice For Writers (2015-08-07)
All One Can Do Is Speak, Even If Some Do Not Listen (2015-08-06)
One Has To Hope (2015-08-05)
Is Anyone Listening? (2015-08-04)
Perhaps Tilting At Windmills? (2015-08-03)
The Sharpest Sabre (2015-08-02)
The Return Of The Literary Jedi (2015-08-01)
Archive For Writing On The Wall
Why Do Writers Write?
Defacing The Wall
Reason For Graffiti
God’s Hobbies
Professor Emeritus
Futility Of Argument
Your Man Friday’s Ideas
The Writers’ Union of Canada AGM
Canadian Writers’ Union Opens Up Membership
We Need Our Illusions
Poetry and Science -- Poetry in Science
The Poetry of The Planets
What A Poem Is Not
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: Digital Whistles
Criminalizing Photography
A Reading List
Adam Naked In The Long Grass
Fluid Dynamics
You Can’t Judge It A Book By Its Cover
I’ve Been Dreaming Of My Dead Grandmother
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: Sexology
Lust
Probably Even Pigeons Don’t Like Pigeonholes
Sex And Death
God When’s He’s Drunk
An Educational Bridge Across The Cultural Divide
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: Political Pseudoscience
Long Live Disease!
Bite The Bullet And Bite The Apple
Freezing Fire
On The Road But Still On The Island
Riding the Rails
Distance Is Relative
Your Man Friday's Ideas: The Demonization of Drugs
Cyber-education
Blame The Camels
Distract Me. I like it.
The Cretin At The Poetry Reading
Grammar Wars
Editors! Who Needs Them?
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: A Literary Train Of Thought
Fellow Train Travellers' Tales
The Ultimate Train Writer Can Train A Writer
What Makes Travel Worthwhile Is Its Adversity
Hickey’s Dead!
A Great Poetry Smorgasbord
Writers Have Been Constantly Dogged By An Addiction To Puns
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: The Good Old Days
Time Travel
What Time Doesn’t Change
Remembering Past Passions
Fanning The Embers
Adolescent Passion Play
Passion At A Passion Play
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: When To Wrestle With Pigs
Polemic Literature
Never The Twain Shall I Meet
Ouch, That Hurts! Touché!
Reviewer
Reviled Reviewers
The Honest Book Reviewer Conundrum
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: Letting Art Out Of The Ghetto
What Is The Value Of Art?
Writings On The Wall - September 2013
The Contradictions In Our Valuation Of Art
Offering Of Free (Priceless) Books
A Great Oak Has Fallen
The Frontier Of Writing
A Poet Remembered
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: Smart Radio On Demand
‘Dirty’ (Poetry) Books
The High Art Of Vulgarity
Reading Ribald Rabelais
No Escaping Lust
Good Art Like Good Science Is Offensive
Poetic Language
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: Defining intelligence
Bad Writing
Beauty Teaches Us Many Things
Advice To Young Poets
A Culturally Harmful Gift
Ban Artists From Writing Artist Statements
Art Critics Criticized
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: Dogs And Writers
In Memory Of My Writing Associate: Nickel
Song Of The Old Dog
Public Venues For Art
God When He’s Drunk (Because He Can Afford It)
Free Doesn’t Mean Worthless
Writers’ Writing They Don’t Want To Be Read
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: Very Unconventional Painting
Grave Faces: Angst
Grave Faces: Melancholy
Grave Faces: Pity
Writings On The Wall - October 2013
Grave Faces: Despair
Grave Faces: Anger
Grave Faces: Sorrow
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: Our Plastic Brains
The Poetry In Science
The Egos Of Poets, Scientists, And Cranks
The Presumption Of Poems (And Those Who Write Them)
The War With Words
A Veteran Of The War With Words
Give Thanks
Your Man Friday's Ideas: Live Free Or Die
Hats Off To Alice Munro: Nobel Laureate in Literature
Alice Munro: A Sample
Thanks Given For Not Being A Fowl
The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Writer
Read About God When He’s Drunk
So Many Books, So Little Time!
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: Combinatorial Art
The Big Sleep: Sleep
The Big Sleep: Dream
To Dream Or Not To Dream
The Reason For Nightmares
Writers’ Bad Nights
Night Letter
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: Counting To Infinity
Prescription: A Tincture Of Madness
If You’re Seeing Things
Eve Of Destruction, Dawn Of Creation
T.S. Elliot Got It Wrong
November Cometh
Windigo Spirit
Writings On The Wall - November 2013
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: Perverting The Young
The Writer As Bad Guy
Art As Ennobling?
Almost Done Embracing The Moon
November Moon Rising
About The Full Moon
Moonshine
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: Physicists’ Magical Mystery Tour
Writing And Location
Writing In The North
Writers Coming To North Bay
Dark Days Are Upon Us
Dark Writing
Light Reading
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: That Ain’t Funny
About Writers Reading
New Offering: Ethereal Minstrel
Falling To Pieces
Coming Apart: Splintered
Coming Apart: Shredded
Coming Apart: Shattered
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: Making Art With Science
Art As Object, Live With It.
Exposing Yourself
The Poet In The Confessional
The Writer Inside The Writing
The Writer As Liar
Poet As Career, Profession, Or Condition?
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: Hearing Voices
The Writer’s Voice
Writings On The Wall - December 2013
Be Very Careful What You Write
The Real Writing Comes After The Writing
The Morning After
Teaching Creative Writing
Why Grammar Does and Does Not Matter
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: The End: Fire Or Ice Or Us
Why Isn’t Poetry Read?
Why Poetry Isn’t Read: Misunderstanding What It Is?
Why Poetry Isn’t Read: Miseducation?
Why Poetry Isn’t Read: False Expectations
Why Poetry Isn’t Read: Effort Required?
Why Poetry Isn’t Read: Need For Narrative?
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: Reasons To Read
Christmas Presents
Christmas Presents God When He’s Drunk
Finding An Editor
Christmas Holidays
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: Criminal Business Models
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: Food Extremists
Writings On The Wall - January 2014
New Year, New Book
New Year, New Project
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: Scientific Scare Words
Shared Knowledge: Clichés
Ya Gotta Love Clichés: Excuses
Ya Gotta Love Clichés: Procrastination
Ya Gotta Love Clichés: Logic
Ya Gotta Love Clichés: Causation
Legality Of Telling Lies
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: Public Transport Innovation
Writer’s Block
Maintaining Credibility
Tools Of The Trade
Further Remarks Re Proofing And Writing Tools
My Latest Book: Going Home: Cycling Through The Heart Of America
Blog Time Out: Back To Chicago Days
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: Utilizing Internet Crowds
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: Pay Attention!
Writer As Junkie
Call It Quasi-Censorship?
Governmental ‘Quasi-Censorship’
Lies About Censorship: Crying Wolf
Misleading Emphasis As A Form Of ‘Quasi-Censorship’
Combating Censorship
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: Unpleasant Truths
Writings On The Wall - February 2014
Book Launch For My Latest Book
Writers’ Traits (Quirks?)
Writers’ Traits: Allegedly Common Ones
Writers’ Traits: Generalizations
Writers’ Traits: Anti-Social Behaviour
Launch For My Latest Book
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: Everything Can Be Faked
The Book Launch
Writers’ Traits: Depression And Bi-Polar Disorder
Writers’ Traits: Attention Deficit Disorder
Writers’ Traits: Obsessive Compulsive
Writers’ Traits: Alcoholism
Break
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: Enviable Uncommon Senses
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: Where To Read
Writers’ Motives: Money?
Gathering Material
Travellers In Europa: 01-Ursula In Avignon
Travellers In Europa: 02-Wolfgang In Berlin
Travellers In Europa: 04-Sophia In Istanbul
Travellers In Europa: 03 Karl In Copenhagen
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: The Idea Of Travel
Writings On The Wall - March 2014
Travellers In Europa: 05-Cecilia In Konopiste
Travellers In Europa: 06-Susie In Ljubljana
Travellers In Europa: 07-Marcel In Nice
Travellers In Europa: 08-Ingrid In Opatija
Travellers In Europa: 09-Charles In Oxford
Travellers In Europa: 10-Sylvie In Piran
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: Into The Abyss
Travellers In Europa: 11-Herodotus In Riga
Travellers In Europa: 12-Ivan In Saint Petersburg
Travellers In Europa: 13-Henri In Telc
Travellers In Europa: 14-Rosaline In Venice
Travellers in Europa: Book
Avoid Travel Guides
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: Unfrequented Tourist Destinations
Writers’ Support Groups
Family Life, Family Strife
Poet Married To Poet
Writers’ Spouses
Where Writers Get No Support
Writers’ Organizations
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: What If
Time Out But I Shall Return
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: Emotion Detection
Writings On The Wall - April 2014
April Fools Day
April Fools Day Master
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: The Big Three Of New Tech
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: Sex Differences
A More Modest Return
Almost Slipping Off The Edge On A Learning Curve
Royal Matriarchy: Ice Queen
Royal Matriarchy: Princess
New Art Gallery
Art Has Been Redefined
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: The Power Of Music
The Unspeakable
In Praise Of The Contrarian
Contrarian Opinion: Hockey Vs. Baseball
Contrarian Opinion: The Beatles Vs. The Rolling Stones
Contrarian Opinion: Cats Vs. Dogs
Contrarian Opinion: Voters Vs. Non-Voters
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: What We Wish
No Place To Hide
Off The Soapbox For Now
Writings On The Wall - May 2014
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: The Hazards Of Fads And Fashions
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: The Second Print Revolution
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Back On My Soapbox
The Poet’s Soapbox
The Conspiracy of 3
Fools On Stools
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: Get Real!
Checking Out Again
Writings On The Wall - June Thru July 2014
I'm Back
New Book Out: Explaining Canada
Explaining Canada: A Primer For Yanks
Reading in Cosmopolitan Rutherglen
Writers’ Union Annual General Meeting
Praise St. John’s and the Maritimes!
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: Digital Social Networks
It Ain’t A Revolution Anymore
Verse Freed? But Freedom Comes With A Price!
The Novel Is No Longer Novel
Is The Familiar Essay Getting Too Familiar?
Has Theatre Become Irrelevant?
Creative Non-Fiction
Writings On The Wall - August To End 2014
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: The Joy Of Statistics
Why I Write
Why I Write Poetry
Why I Write Poetry Using Scientific Or Taboo Terms
Why I Do Not Write Poetry About Political Issues
Why I Do Not Write Poetry About Personal Matters
Why I Do Not Write ‘Formal’ Or ‘Free’ Verse
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: Tree Hugging
Writers’ Egos
Self-Promotion Required
So Probably About Time To Plug My Own Books
Summer Break Time
Fickle fate
Secret Agents Past: The Parting Of The Waters
Secret Agents Present: Looking Through A Glass Darkly
Secret Agents Future: Going Where There Be Dragons
Perfect Epigram For The Secret Agents Trilogy
Christmas Present
Your Man Friday’s Ideas: Theme Real Time TV
Plato’s Heart
Aristotle’s Head
Again Thoughts About Why I Write
Annual Report
Writings On The Wall - January 2015
A New Year (2015-01-01)
Man Friday’s Ideas: Is It Plant, Animal Or Mineral (2015-01-02)
01-Bless Intercepting (2015-01-03)
02-Bless Sound (2015-01-04)
03-Bless The Way The Sea (2015-01-05)
04-Bless The Light (2015-01-06)
05-Bless The Music (2015-01-07)
06-Bless Fluidity (2015-01-08)
Man Friday’s Ideas: You Are What You Own (2015-01-09)
01-The Bittersweet (2015-01-10)
02-Particularity (2015-01-11)
03-One's Even (2015-01-12)
04-All The Fractal (2015-01-13)
05-The Impossibility (2015-01-14)
06-The Event Horizon (2015-01-15)
Man Friday’s Ideas: The Roots Of Avant-Garde Music (2015-01-16)
01-Only Three (2015-01-17)
02-Inside Equations (2015-01-18)
03-Along The Ragged (2015-01-19)
04-Given Two Paths (2015-01-20)
05-The Gentle Iteration (2015-01-21)
06-One Needs (2015-01-22)
Man Friday’s Ideas: Sweet And Sour Poetry (2015-01-23)
01-The Stochastic Caves (2015-01-24)
02-Iterative Lake Country (2015-01-25)
03-Cove Valence (2015-01-26)
04-Gradient Bridge (2015-01-27)
05-Fractal Shoreline (2015-01-28)
06-Soliton Wave (2015-01-29)
Man Friday’s Ideas: Six Years On The Island (2015-01-30)
Writing As Recreation: Clerihews (2015-01-31)
Writings On The Wall - February 2015
Oliver Wendall Holmes (Literary Clerihew) (2015-02-01)
Camus (Philosopher Clerihew) (2015-02-02)
Ernest Hemingway (Literary Clerihew) (2015-02-03)
Leibniz (Philosopher Clerihew) (2015-02-04)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (Literary Clerihew) (2015-02-05)
Aristotle (Philosopher Clerihew) (2015-02-06)
T. S. Elliot (Literary Clerihew) (2015-02-07)
Friedrich Nietzsche (Philosopher Clerihew) (2015-02-08)
Good Enough (2015-02-09)
Teaching Creativity?! (2015-02-10)
Encouraging Creativity? (2015-02-11
Both Teachers And Art Require A Receptive Audience (2015-02-12)
To Teach Or Not To Teach, That Is The Question (2015-02-13)
Formal Education And Creativity (2015-02-14)
The Real Teachers (2015-02-15)
Sleep Learning (2015-02-16)
A Clathic Inspiration (2015-02-17)
Laws Of Poetry (2015-02-18)
Bad Writing As Poetry? (2015-02-19)
The Line Break Pseudosolution (2015-02-20)
The Boredom Criterion (2015-02-21)
A Real Characteristic Poetry (2015-02-22)
Sound And Sense (2015-02-23)
Sense And Sound (2015-02-24)
The Poet Or The Reader Versus The Poem (2015-02-25)
Sense And Appearance (2015-02-26)
Poem As Image (2015-02-27)
Merging Image And Text (2015-02-28)
Writings On The Wall - March 2015
Bather’s World (2015-03-01)
Benoit’s World (2015-03-02)
Bird’s World (2015-03-03)
Boatman’s World (2015-03-04)
Bone Man’s World (2015-03-05)
Butterfly’s World (2015-03-06)
Calder’s World (2015-03-07)
Farmer’s World (2015-03-08)
Flow’s World (2015-03-09)
Goldman’s World (2015-03-10)
Hatchling’s World (2015-03-11)
Herbalist’s World (2015-03-12)
Hermaphrodite’s World (2015-03-13)
Hunter’s World (2015-03-14)
Iguana’s World (2015-03-15)
Julia’s World (2015-16-16)
Lover’s World (2015-03-17)
Medievalist’s World (2015-03-18)
Northerner’s World (2015-03-19)
Rebel’s World (2015-03-20)
Symbiote’s World (2015-03-21)
Talisman’s World (2015-03-22)
Urbanite’s World (2015-03-23)
Waterboy’s World (2015-03-24)
Weaver’s World (2015-03-25)
Secret Relationship Of Science And Art (2015-03-26)
My Early Interest In Science: Making Nitro (2015-03-27)
My Early Interest In Literature: Reading Rabelais (2015-03-28)
Threats To Civilization (2015-03-29)
Evil Religion (2015-03-30)
Evil Ideology (2015-03-31)
Writings On The Wall - April Thru June 2015
Political Pseudoscience (2015-04-01)
The Blog Fog (2015-04-02)
Backasswards Blogs: Pros and Cons (2015-04-03)
Multimedia Blogs: Pros and Cons (2015-04-04)
Interactive Blogs: Pros and Cons (2015-04-05)
Unguarded Blogs: Pros and Cons (2015-04-06)
Good Blogs (2015-04-07)
One Last Thought About Blogs (2015-04-08)
Unsaved Saviour (2015-04-09)
Crown Of Doubt (2015-04-10)
Crown Of Silence (2015-04-11)
Blog Silence (2015-04-12)
Someone’s Home Here (2015-06-21)
Bayou Hermitage (2015-06-22)
Decadent Docile (2015-06-23)
Humble Adobe Abode (2015-06-24)
Nobody Reads That Stuff (2015-06-25)
Nobody Even Recognizes That Stuff (2015-06-26)
Another Reason For The Scarcity Of Readers (2015-06-27)
Poets Have Reason To Be Envious (2015-06-28)
We Don’t Like Being Imposed Upon (2015-06-29)
Poetry 101 (2015-06-30)
Writings On The Wall - July 2015
The Cretin At The Poetry Reading (2015-07-01)
A Reader’s Expectations & A Poem’s Expectations (2015-07-02)
A Poem’s Expectations: Attentive Reading (2015-07-03)
A Poem’s Expectations: Attentive Reading (2015-07-04)
A Poem’s Expectations: Attention To Rhythm (2015-07-05)
A Poem’s Expectations: Tolerance For Ambiguity (2015-07-06)
A Poem’s Expectations: Tolerance For Ambiguity (2015-07-07)
A Poem’s Expectations: Attention To Connotation (2015-07-08)
What We Expect Of The Poet (2015-07-09)
What We Expect Of The Poet: Autonomy (2015-07-10)
What We Expect Of The Poet: Autonomy From Music (2015-07-11)
What We Expect Of The Poet: Autonomy From Image (2015-07-12)
What We Expect Of The Poet: Sound and Sense (2015-07-13)
What We Expect Of The Poet: Sound (2015-07-14)
What We Expect Of The Poet: Sense (2015-07-15)
What We Expect Of The Poet: Something Interesting (2015-07-16)
What We Expect Of The Poet: Something Interesting (2015-07-17)
What We Expect Of The Poet: Something Interesting (2015-07-18)
What We Expect Of The Poet: Something Interesting (2015-07-19)
What We Expect Of The Poet: Something Interesting (2015-07-20)
What We Expect Of The Poet: Something Interesting (2015-07-21)
What We Expect Of The Poet: Poems (2015-07-22)
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