It ends when the leaves whither
It ends when it turns to ash
And a new vine will grow ___________
Author: Michael Janairo
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Highlights of Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960-1971, at MoMA in NYC
It ends when its covered with leaves
It ends when the leaves whither
It ends when it turns to ash
And a new vine will grow ___________ -
Yinka Shonibare, MBE’s “Refugee Astronaut,” 2015
Yinka Shonibare, MBE’s “Refugee Astronaut,” 2015 
Yinka Shonibare, MBE’s “Refugee Astronaut,” 2015 
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Haiku movie reviews, May 2015
Ex Machina (2015)
A hot bot twists minds
As it takes the Turing test
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A view from my day job: One of Arturo Herrera’s latest paintings
Here’s something to brighten your morning.
An untitled painting by Arturo Herrera, which was made on a used book. -
Haiku movie reviews, April 2015
Big Hero 6 (2014)
A Disney-esque death
Of a heroic brother
Gives way to bedlamJersey Boys (2014)
Cops don’t kill these thugs
Valli’s sweet voice lifts them up
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In memory of Medill professor Bob McClory
“So I’m thinking it’s either a Pulitzer in six years, or a mental hospital for you.”
That was Bob McClory, a journalism professor of mine who died last Friday at age 82. Or at least that’s what I remember him saying at the end-of-the-quarter meeting about my writing and final grade when I was a journalism undergrad student at Medill at Northwestern.
He thought my continual use of quotation ledes ventured onto the less sane side of decision-making. What I heard though in that sentence was: I see what you’re doing. I don’t always get it or agree with you, but I believe in you. He probably said the same thing to lots of other students.
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Haiku movie reviews, March 2015
Song of the Sea (2014)
Selkie seeks her voice
Her brother’s kind of a jerk
The spirits are saints?Vanity Fair (2004)
Novel: No hero
On Film: Reese Witherspoon stars
Story? Doesn’t work2 Guns (2013)
Rat-a-tat-tat — bang!
Two big stars come out shooting
The bodies pile upFury (2014)
I watched this tank flick
Riding on an Amtrak train
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“ET HE UGLY RUTH” courtesy of a sponsored ad on Twitter
A young person I know recently said something along the lines that Twitter was going down the drain. I don’t where that idea came from. I’ve been using Twitter since Sept. 19, 2008. (which is longer than 99.755% of all other Twitter users, according to http://twopcharts.com/howlongontwitter).
Perhaps the young person was thinking of sponsored contents like the ad here from the Alliance for Quality Education of New York. I ignore most Twitter ads but this one got me because of the words “ET HE UGLY RUTH.”
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