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A Shockingly Relevant Film From 1957. Top Story - January 2025.
My husband and I have a subscription to the Criterion Channel streaming service. Every month Criterion will organize its films into themed compilations. Some are pretentious sounding like ‘Cinema Verité’ others are kind of silly like ‘The Mustache Club.’ But they often help us decide what to watch. The theme that caught our eye this month was ‘Cast Against Type: Heroes as Villains.’ I love it when an actor shows off their range.
By Leslie Writes2 years ago in Geeks
A Photo With A View. Top Story - January 2025.
Imagination is sometimes like a dream or a waking moment, a bit of inspiration to guide us. It's like an idea that suddenly appears in our mind, a utility in reach, an embedded notion. We think it or we visualize it. Sometimes we might capture it by a drawing, a painting, a piece of writing, or a song.
By Canuck Scriber Lisa Lachapelle2 years ago in Humans
Spell to Summon a Lost Love. Top Story - January 2025.
Setting up the ritual, she holds fear at bay with her bare hands; focused on their movements, she marks the circle. Placing the rose quartz—big as her restless heart, ragged pink-veined facets thirsty for the light of a fattening barley moon—on the centre sigil. Calling her power to set the fires pirouetting in their bowls of sacred oil at the cardinal points, she draws in her breath and almost brings the fear with it—will he be there, as he promised—until she curls her toes into the moss-bound grass and feels the hum of the words as she passes the incantation over her tongue and between her lips. Words she's waited half a lifetime to speak. Words that can finally call his world back to hers.
By Lauren Everdell2 years ago in Fiction
Smile like You Meme it! ⚡😎👍. Top Story - January 2025.
Hello again! 👋😁⚡ I'm __Lightning Bolt. If you don't know who I am by now, shame, shame! I'd put a curse on you but I'm a superhero, so I'm obligated not to be that petty. Seriously, though... do your homework.
By Lightning Bolt ⚡2 years ago in Humor
Before It Ends. Top Story - January 2025. Content Warning.
When we are children everything seems to have a conspiracy or scary story around it. We make up stories of the things that go bump in the night. We have such a naïve side that we often believe the stories we tell, exaggerating them more each time they are shared with our friends. Sometimes we make up stories based on bits and pieces that we hear the adults around us talking about, and other times we take actions based on those bits and pieces, not realizing what a mistake that can be.
By Luna Verity2 years ago in Chapters
Review of David Browne's "Talkin' Greenwich Village". Top Story - January 2025.
If ever there was a time-travel ticket to a past and a place that you knew so well you could still see the sun glinting through the tree leaves, hear the din of the eateries as you walked by, and, most important, still hear the music that actually defied any given time or place, it would be David Browne's book, Talkin' Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America's Bohemian Music Capital. That's because Browne has a way of writing, an eye for detail, a penchant for commentary, that draws you in to fill the background you in one way or another actually experienced, or, what Marshall McLuhan called "cool".
By Paul Levinson2 years ago in Beat
The Weather. Top Story - January 2025.
Write Down the Bones Deck to Free the Writer Within — This is my wish for you: that you take these cards, grab the topic on one side and write, write, write. Then flip to the other side of the card and take note. I’ve always used the word topic instead of prompt. Prompt is the starting place, but topic indicates more the idea of plunging in and immersing. Natalie Goldberg
By Denise E Lindquist2 years ago in Writers
