Category Archives: Creative Arts

Shaq’s big challenge…

By Frank Paynter | Published: February 4, 2010

The link to Shaq’s Big Challenge came to me via Jocelyn Matsuo, Hulu’s video editor. Shaq’s altruistic side comes into focus as he “chooses kids from his area who are all morbidly obese, and organizes a program to help them with their weight and self-esteem.” It’s flamingly delicious.

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Whole lotta lynx

By Frank Paynter | Published: December 31, 2009

PhD Comix Kulcha Round-up Betsy Blair, comsymp Federal government muffs another one Whining Joe Klein Invisible Inkling Prison Health and Our Community: A Public Health Investigation Pew, that decade STANK Steve Outing, Welcome to Elba Jim Long on the Verge of Something New John Siracusa, the Ars in Arstechnica Community Supported Journalism Public Knowledge Progressive [...]

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Whatever happened to Swifty Lazar?

By Frank Paynter | Published: October 16, 2009

First, who was Swifty Lazar? It’s one of those names that has been embedded in my consciousness seemingly without antecedent. So, this morning, when–while following a thread from Improprieties–I happened upon a young fellow named Irwin Lazar, my thoughts swiftly turned to Swifty. Swifty Lazar. The name stood out clearly in my mind, like the [...]

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Fiberguy on harp

By Frank Paynter | Published: October 15, 2009
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National Poetry Slam #NPS2009

By Frank Paynter | Published: August 4, 2009

The twentieth National Poetry Slam, the Super Bowl of the Spoken Word, gets under way tonight at seven pm in West Palm Beach, Florida. In a sort of bus man’s holiday, the Orlando Sentinel’s Tod Caviness will blog the event live from West Palm. Of local interest: el guante will be slamming for the St. [...]

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By Frank Paynter | Published: July 22, 2009

This is old news, but it’s probably a meme worth propagating. Singer/song writer Dave Caroll had a grievance. United Airlines baggage handlers broke his $1500 Taylor guitar. Earlier this month the musician, with backing from his band The Sons of Maxwell, released his YouTube lament about the breakage. Three weeks later over three and a [...]

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140 characters is too few

By Frank Paynter | Published: July 1, 2009

“Twitter” rhymes with “fritter” and that’s what I’ve done–frittered too much time away following other people’s interests. The stream of information is compelling, but my continuous-partial-attention time slicer doesn’t slice thin enough for me to follow your tweets while I do my stuff. Yet online connection and conversation enriches me. It’s my intention to follow [...]

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A poem by Ray Sweatman

By Frank Paynter | Published: June 10, 2009

Grasshopper reads Chekhov to a Thai Hooker in the Hollow of an Oak in a Cul-de-Sac The flip of a tractor trailer The writhe of a live power line The closing of the main road Has me on this sidestreet Looking for a way home A house, woods, trees Just another cul-de-sac With no way [...]

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