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Tag: Pharoah Sanders

  • Weekly Round-up, June 7, 2025

    House Finch nestlings in a potted fern, about to become fledglings.

    [House Finch nestlings in a potted fern, about to become fledglings.]

    My birthday was two days ago, and O BOY, is the world getting more interesting as we move farther into 2025. Ukraine took out a sizable chunk of Russia’s nuclear-capable bombers with swarms of off-the-shelf hobbyist drones, Trump and Musk broke up and are performatively feuding, and the financial aftershocks of Trump’s tariff nonsense are hitting the street.

    But other than that, things are going great!

    Reading

    I have returned to The Wretched of the Earth and it is once again blowing my mind.

    Writing

    I managed a couple of pages of world-building notes for Cacophonous, as well as a couple of lines of verse, though they weren’t very good. Or rather, interesting ideas poorly executed.

    Weekly Writing Prompt

    Subject: Undead, Kaiju
    Setting: Battlefield
    Genre: Fantasy

    Listening

    Alice Coltrane with Pharoah Sanders and Joe Henderson, “Turiya and Ramakrishna”, from the amazing album Ptah the El Daoud.

    Interesting Links

  • Weekly Round-up, November 16, 2024

    Well my head is in a slightly better place this week than it was last week. Not that things are good. No, things are not good at all. Trump was re-elected, despite being a close personal friend of Jeffrey Epstein. Or really, because he is a Friend of Epstein. After all, he is very popular with conservative Christians. Its re-election was no real surprise; this type of outcome has been inevitable since Reagan’s second term, and accelerated by Citizen’s United.

    Reading

    Reading went a little better this week than last week. I finished Elvira Navarro’s A Working Woman, which was beautiful and strange. Now I am reading Mona Arshi’s Somebody Loves You, which sits in the boundary between novel and prose poem.

    Writing

    I have put some more thought into The Book, and taken down some notes around setting and character traits, but the story itself still eludes me. I suspect that what was originally intended as a re-write will instead be a re-draft.

    Weekly Writing Prompt

    Subject: Politics, Death
    Setting: Subterranean
    Genre: Literary Fiction

    Listening

    Alice Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders, “Something About John Coltrane”, from the album Journey in Satchidananda.

    Interesting Links