Torsade Literary Space My Blog Week: November 15 to November 21
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week More Flounce to the Ounce Earlier in the Trump presidency, commentators used to say, “The one thing about Trump is that he’s never boring.” Well. These […]
My Blog Week: November 8 to November 14
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Going Forward Suppose you had an app, for spreadsheets or some such, used frequently and loved—but one day a virus came to infect it. Every document shared […]
My Blog Week: November 1 to November 7
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Yippie Yi Yay My fellow American writers, and our country’s well-wishers everywhere… (Wishing you well right back!) It may be a little hard, since Saturday, […]
My Blog Week: October 25 to October 31
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Four Points of Light As the world audience may be aware, there are some people in America who feel really, really sorry for themselves. They voted […]
My Blog Week: October 18 to October 24
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Blame to Go Around A subdued debate this week, or modestly subdued. Trump’s advisors flagged in advance that he would show a different character after polling badly following […]
My Blog Week: October 11 to October 17
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week What’s the Reason? I’m reminded of a WWI scandal involving William Randolph Hearst (detailed here), that I learned about when writing my neglected Yellow Press series. (I’ll get […]
My Blog Week: October 4 to October 10
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Old references for new things Back at some point, I bought A Warning, by Anonymous. My reason, chiefly, was that I wanted this book to succeed, and be […]
My Blog Week: September 27 to October 3
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Debate Fallout Curses not loud but deep, mouth-honour… Macbeth, Act V., Scene 3. I’m reminded of this speech from Macbeth when I see so many pundits trying […]
My Blog Week: September 20 to September 26
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Hold the Bird Chuck Grassley, the senator from Iowa, tweeted this week about a pigeon found dead on his farm. This narrative somewhat incoherent and persistently ill-spelled, flashed […]
My Blog Week: September 13 to September 19
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week The Good and the Bad When the People-in-Charge manage to do good these days, they do it inadvertently, under ironic circumstances. Sometimes by being so bad that a […]