Jacob McArthur Mooney Jacob McArthur Mooney grew up in Nova Scotia and attended university in Newfoundland. He is now pursuing an MFA at the University of Guelph. His first book of poems, The New Layman’s Almanac, was recently published by McClelland & Stewart (see the Mindful Bard review here). He edits the web journal ThievesJargon.com… Read more »
DVD: The Honeydripper Released: 2008 Directed by John Sayles ?White folks look right through me. Besides, how much mischief an old blind spook like me gon’ git up to anyhow?? Possum, in The Honeydripper You’ve heard the blues played, sweetly, majestically, on a twangy guitar, and You’re now deeply in thrall. You have to learn… Read more »
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Book: Jacob McArthur Mooney, The New Layman’s Almanac Publication date: 2008 Publisher: McClelland and Stewart, Toronto Dream in maximums. Hold on to the top rung until the freeze hits- someone will be hiring. They’ll need you to plow snow, break ice. Nothing I could say about survival would impress you. You make soup on a… Read more »
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DVD: An Inconvenient Truth Released: 2006 Directed by David Guggenheim ?When through the deep waters I call thee to go, The rivers of woe shall not thee overflow; For I will be with thee, thy troubles to bless, And sanctify to thee thy deepest distress.? Traditional American hymn In Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic novel The Road… Read more »
DVD: The Great Debaters, 2007 Directed by Denzel Washington ?How does it become a man to behave toward this American government to-day? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. I cannot for an instant recognize that political organization as my government which is the slave’s government also.? Henry David Thoreau, ?On… Read more »
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Book: Kang Zhengguo, Confessions: An Innocent Life in Communist China English Translation 2007 by Susan Wilf, Norton: New York Throughout his life in China, in response to some perceived thought crime against the state, Kang is ordered to write confessional essays. On one such occasion, he muses: ?By then I was an old hand at… Read more »
