Travellers In Europa: 07-Marcel In Nice
Travellers In Europa: 07-Marcel In Nice
Ken Stange
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- Your Man Friday’s Ideas: Letting Art Out Of The Ghetto
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- Writings On The Wall - September 2013
- The Contradictions In Our Valuation Of Art
- Offering Of Free (Priceless) Books
- A Great Oak Has Fallen
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- 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
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- Bad Writing
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- 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
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- 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
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- To Dream Or Not To Dream
- The Reason For Nightmares
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- 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
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- Your Man Friday’s Ideas: Physicists’ Magical Mystery Tour
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- Dark Days Are Upon Us
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- New Offering: Ethereal Minstrel
- Falling To Pieces
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- Coming Apart: Shattered
- Your Man Friday’s Ideas: Making Art With Science
- Art As Object, Live With It.
- Exposing Yourself
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- 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
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- Finding An Editor
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- 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
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- 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
- 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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