In addition to creating the atomic bomb that killed almost 300,000 innocent civilians on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and Nagasaki August 9, Julius Robert Oppenheimer loved reading and writing poetry in several languages — this I learned while conducting research last eve for a new novel I am working [...]
Archive for the ‘Hideous Music and the Sound of Many Shotguns’ Category
The Poet Who Made Bombs
Posted: December 11, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Hideous Music and the Sound of Many ShotgunsTags: atomic bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer, poetry, poets
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Posted: December 8, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Hideous Music and the Sound of Many Shotguns, Las Vegas SunThat’s the number of comments under my story at the online version of the Las Vegas Sun that were removed overnight (from 166) for being off-topic, abusive, and for personal attacks. Overnight I was forced to mark all three of my blogs (8763 Wonderland, Carver’s Dog, Bat Country) as “private” because one particularly virulent commenter — [...]
Jaune de Journaliste
Posted: November 24, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Hideous Music and the Sound of Many Shotguns, Le Journaliste ColoreTags: Afghanistan War, American Family Association, Bryan Fischer, Pat Tillman, Salvatore Giunta, Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, war, warmongers
Bryan Fischer, talk radio host and columnist for Rightly Concerned: A Project of the American Family Association, had an issue with the recent awarding of the Medal of Honor to U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta for heroism in battle in Afghanistan. Fischer, a ‘Christian’, – who has never seen the heat of battle himself — [...]
Down at the Dog Iron Ranch
Posted: November 4, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Hideous Music and the Sound of Many Shotguns, Las Vegas Sun, Pop Matters, What We're Reading Tonight“We are the first nation to starve to death in a storehouse filled with everything we want.” Will Rogers, 1935 Today, November 4, is the birthday of American humorist Will Rogers, born to a prominent Indian territory family on the Dog Iron Ranch in what is now Oklahoma on this date in 1879. If the [...]
Continental Drift
Posted: October 10, 2010 by finistere in Hideous Music and the Sound of Many Shotguns, Mr. Bukowski's Wild Ride, Sunday Literary Supplement, this may sound foolish here, UncategorizedThe north by northwest passage of Matt Asprey, and his nod to Hemingway in the quote about displaced writing ["maybe away from Paris I could write about Paris as in Paris I could write about Michigan"] reminds me that when writing for others, we benefit from distance from…ourselves. It is not only the act of [...]
