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• Nonfiction > Academic
  Buster Keaton Vs. Mars

  

  By thats-not-art, San Francisco, CA

  Today, a great quandary will be answered. A great mystery will be dispelled. That mystery is: Why did Buster Keaton never smile? A rumor in Hollywood spread that the famous funny-man and puller of great, hair-raising stunts, was contractually obligated to never crack a smile. Of course, the truth is...
• Reviews > Movie Reviews
  The Master

  

  By thats-not-art, San Francisco, CA

  The Master Film Review This movie is directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, who masterfully made movies such as "There Will be Blood" and "Magnolia", the fastest four hours I have ever sat through. He is no doubt a fantastic talent, a producing-writing-directing type who has never m...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Hoopla

  

  By thats-not-art, San Francisco, CA

  There is a place behind the cities, the towns, and roads, beyond the crows on telephone wires, when the telephone wires turn into telegraph wires and the telegraph wires turn into riders on horses. When horses become clay tablets with writing on them. There is a place beyond that, where the echoes o...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Above It All

  

  By thats-not-art, San Francisco, CA

  There is a rumble far away, Animals running from a forest fire, The thunder after the lightning And the wax and the wane of the moon, The inevitable and unstoppable tides upon the shores, All that is left is me, I am above it all, festering inside like a million fireworks ready to blow, I am...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Still Life

  

  By thats-not-art, San Francisco, CA

  I saw it first in a novelty shop It harkened to those old days where Things were simple, as somebody who didn’t know The old days thought. I certainly didn’t know which was why I wanted to have it. But really, it was more complicated, Covered with nostalgic dreams For a better time, like l...
• Nonfiction > Travel & Culture
  NYC

  

  By thats-not-art, San Francisco, CA

  Bright beyond belief, Moving billboards and light that stuns the birds out of the sky And blocks the stars from view. Walking on those streets You avoid the street performers In American flag underwear And a rhinestone cowboy hat As they sing Bruce Springsteen songs, And get in your face and...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  People Person

  

  By thats-not-art, San Francisco, CA

  How could you hid behind that mask? A clay face to hid your feelings, Shut out from the world, From people who want to help, How can you block out advice with loud music, Plugging your ears and yelling, Refusing to hear, To believe, There has got to be more to you than that. A cookie cutter...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Cold Tea

  

  By thats-not-art, San Francisco, CA

  Cracked copies of National Geographic, Ripped, dusty, filled with last year's news, Starting afresh with a pencil, Crumpled papers scattered, Shreds of rejected drafts thrown Like rice on a wedding. It starts quite simple, As shadow builds, Depth emerges, And a form, from an abstract, slow...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Eyes in she Sky

  

  By thats-not-art, San Francisco, CA

  People say they're watching you through the TV and that there's now a way to beam messages into your head. When you squish a fly you destroy a 50 million dollar nano camera on it's back that's been watching you from the plum in the fruit bowl. A device on the international sp...