Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in the Grove:
All poets’ wives have rotten lives
Their husbands look at them like knives.
~Delmore Schwartz

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry, let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which, let them take tea together three times a week. ~Ezra Pound

Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his head first, and if it rings solid, don’t hesitate. All the unhappy marriages come from husbands having brains. What good are brains to a man? They only unsettle him. ~PG Wodehouse
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Posted to the Grove: This week’s Prewritten for Thurs, 10/4:  dimple, bazaar

Music Video: This reintroduces Wordgrove’s music video, a sometime feature from WG’s previous newsletter. For this inaugural, a video from a PBS fundraising concert in Boston. It’s not rock and roll, there are no lyrics, only the song of a trumpet and violin together, a classic in blue

Chris Botti & Lucia Micarelli
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8NN4fpdm40

Suggested videos are welcome, indeed, encouraged. Please send your choice with link to this editor, BarTalk
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Worth mentioning, Wordgrove’s late night Nutters and insomniacs are welcome to drop in for GaryBob’s Midnight at the Outpost chat, east end of WG. Midnight is Pacific time, the music playing is big band, and chat is all over the map. There’s usually someone around about that time. It’s BYOB
GB’s poster for MATO:
http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q292/GaryBob13/There/WGO-1.png

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@Writers Platform: This week’s Prewritten: Mexico
~Jessalee: tekillya
Jessa’s sure-fire memory generator when in Mexico

~BarTalk: Mexico
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This week’s Word Game: 10 minutes that make you cringe

~Jessalee: it’s ten of ten
The first crucial decision she’ll make in her new child’s life and she has only minutes to make it

~Piffin: Decade
Mystery in a confessional, and whether to keep the secret with God alone

~BarTalk: squirm

Also, on glass library table:
~GaryBob: A poetic riddle … with the answer to be found elsewhere in the grove

~Jessalee: Nano!
Or, NaNoWriMo or, National Novel Writing Month. Hundreds of thousands of writers around the world resolve to write 50,000 words in one month, and it takes place every November. No time for editing, just get the words down. That’s crazy talk, but Jessa raves

~BarTalk: Legends of the Whale

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Writers in Residence:
~kangaroo @warp: migrates around the hillside behind the Platform so that you have to search to find it (check first on  the west side). Look for blackened trees and a large portal lens. Pass thru it, read the Scroll for the short trip kangaroo takes you on … realize that you’ve been had, and been given a gift

~Piffin @Cinderella Slippers: Spandau Express (Parts 1 & 2)
A story that erases distinction between jaded horror and transformative science fiction; high living lovers discover a drug with unusual properties

~Greymane @Greyed Expectations 2: The Tempest
… where was the love? Loss tears a hole in the night letting ghosts out, letting the terror in; then dawn and home and the storm passes

~Whitefeather @Firelight, and the Moonlight: I believe
Two of this editor’s favorite things in one short Scroll: a found quote, and music. The quote follows, but check Beth’s Scroll for the music link. Meet You at the Moon is worth the trip if torch songs get you to melting point

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. ~Anais Nin

~Jessalee @Creative Intentions: Call me New Mommy!
Jessa’s happiness is contagious and it has a reason; now there are two redheads in the household, and the world should consider itself warned

~GaryBob @Wordgrove Outpost:  Stargazing
To lay down under the stars and let the ancient light bathe you; there is a technique for seeing them as tho new again, and GB obliges with very plausible instructions

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