“Give & Take” by David Raffin & Richard F. Yates | The Primitive Entertainment Workshop.
“It is my belief that recycling makes up for all the evil I do.”
—Raffin & Yates
[Words by David Raffin. Image by Richard F. Yates.]
More Than True, A journal of. Published under the auspices of the HiSky* Trust, founded 1957 to promote disorder. (*Hiss-Key)
“Give & Take” by David Raffin & Richard F. Yates | The Primitive Entertainment Workshop.
“It is my belief that recycling makes up for all the evil I do.”
—Raffin & Yates
[Words by David Raffin. Image by Richard F. Yates.]
If your complaint up to this point has been “not enough movies about disagreeable men in wheelchairs” and/or “not enough non-Russian films about tractors” then I direct you to the Belgian film AALTRA. It also features Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki (Leningrad Cowboys) in an acting role.
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The US medical system has long claimed to be exceptional.
For example, every medical billing department has a team on staff to add insult to injury. They wanted to know if they could keep them under the new law.
And the answer was, “Yes, if you like them.”
Life is rough / if you are a Billy Goat / and you are gruff. Then you meet a troll under a bridge / and enough is enough / for you are king of the ridge.
I received an Xmas card saying, “Don’t get trapped in a snow globe.” Now I am trapped in a snow globe. I have almost no one to blame but mysel…
After all, this was a trap.
The mathematics of culpability, squared.
Years ago postage stamps were bothersome. With the advent of self-adhesion, we finally licked that sticky little problem. Progress, but at great price.
The most famous reindeer of all was Charles Dickens. What a Dickens!
He invented Xmas pudding. Which hardly anybody eats anymore. He started the tradition of orphans eating thin gruel. Now nobody eats gruel. Except orphans. Xmas morning: “Hello gruel world.”
(Gruel world is a future theme park for orphans.)
The Dickens, you say!
(This festive octopus painting by Richard F. Yates.)
Every good long-term relationship is built on one of the participants not being eaten by a monster. This is my writing tip for the day.
One of the participants in a love story being eaten by a monster, of course, is the stuff of tragedy.
Unless it’s a comedy.
Whenever I have a character be eaten by a monster I don’t plot it out. Because that’s not the way it happens in the real world.
Remember that a tragic love story is still a love story. This may be viewed as a flaw in the categorization of stories.