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• BOOK REVIEW: How To Make a Zombie by Frank Swain

  How to Make a Zombie: The Real Life (and Death) Science of Reanimation and Mind Control by Frank Swain My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in page The title of this... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: American Vampire, Vol. 1 by Scott Snyder and Stephen King

  

  American Vampire, Vol. 1 by Scott Snyder My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in page This graphic novel includes two distinct, but interconnected, stories presented... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: American Vampire, Vol. 1 by Scott Snyder and Stephen King

  Amazon.in page This graphic novel includes two distinct, but interconnected, stories presented in an interspersed fashion (i.e. each chapter presents a piece... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• DAILY PHOTO: Maha Vishnu Mandir & Mattancherry Palace

  Mattancherry Palace (partially seen on the right side of frame) was originally built by the Portuguese in 1555 as a gift to the King of Cochin. In the 1660's th... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Could Be Worse: Or, Slow News Year

  There's famine in the heartland - lungs full of the blowing sands. People huddle near the fire, waiting on the news, sans wire. But the news won't get better... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Savage Gravity

  This isn't a gentle tidal temptation. It has the power to pull eyes and minds - the mighty diesel pulling from the station, the force to strip the fruits from... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Horde Swarm Revolution

  This horde had huddled down in the alley. Past hordes had hid to overlook valleys, but bucolic hordes are a beast long past. The valleys, farms, and fields are... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Graveyard Haiku

  

  a headstone worn unreadable stone outlived bones fresh flowers and wild tufts of grass tell mixed stories granite mourners draped over gravestones,... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Pride of Baghdad by Brian K. Vaughan

  Amazon.in page I generally dislike books for adults which anthropomorphize wildlife. Except for "Watership Down" and "Animal Farm" I can't - off the top of my... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: The Nightgown & Other Poems by Taisia Kitaiskaia

  The Nightgown Other Poems by Taisia Kitaiskaia My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in page This playful poetry collection takes fairy tales and folklore as a theme... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: World War Hulk by Greg Pak

  Amazon.in page This collection [World War Hulk (2007) #1-5] picks up where "The Incredible Hulk: Planet Hulk" left off. "Planet Hulk" sees Hulk arriving on the... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Cymbeline by William Shakespeare

  Amazon.in page This play, like a number of Shakespeare's works, revolves around erroneous mistrust regarding infidelity. While it's usual for star-crossed lover... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Asylum Drop

  

  dark room, dark floor - fell through a trapdoor, falling, falling screaming, calling no one near to hear no floor to fall to, but wall-to-wall with... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Hill Temple

  

  Those old, stone boulders - rough, cold, and lonely. Topped with temples older than the one and only - that cave carved in a hill, chiseled in ancient rock by... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• 30 Flavors of Poetry: NaPoMo 2020 Recapped

  

  Here's a linked list of the thirty poems I did this month (each in a different style) for National Poetry Month (and the various other descriptors it's become... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: _____________________ [Day 29 NaPoMo: Dickinsonian]

  

  [Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman were poetic revolutionaries whose new approaches to the art were highly influential in the creation of a distinctive American... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Pressure [Day 28 NaPoMo: Symbolism]

  

  The overseeing angels-of-the-angry-kind strain, but can't generate sufficient force of eye. So, they weep in their failure. Chained to a pillar on the temple... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: The Incredible Hulk: Planet Hulk by Greg Pak

  The Incredible Hulk: Planet Hulk by Greg Pak My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in page I was pleasantly surprised by the story arc and character development in thi... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon by Nikolai Gogol

  And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon by Nikolai Gogol My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in page This collection contains five short stories by the esteemed 19th... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Conversations, Volume 3 Jorge Luis Borges [Int: Osvaldo Ferrari]

  Conversations, Volume 3 by Jorge Luis Borges My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in page This book of interviews with Jorge Luis Borges has me jonesing to read a... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL