Make It in Clay: A Beginner’s Guide to Ceramics reads less like a glossy craft manual than like an apprenticeship compressed into a book. First published in 1997 and revised in 2001, it appears as a spiral-bound, 224-page guide by Charlotte F. Speight and John Toki, aimed at a “simple, beginning studio situation.” That phrase … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Book Review – Make It in Clay – A Beginner’s Guide to Ceramics by Charlotte Speight & John Toki
Revisionist Poetry – “The Dead Still Sing in Granite” – Ghostly Stones, v.4 (Revised while listening to The Doors)
The stones rise up like tired gods,marble jaws, granite spines,standing crooked in the fever-lightof afternoon and ash.Names are carved like spellsinto their pale and dying skin,names the rain has worried loose,names the sun has kissed to ruin. They keep their vigil over the buried ones,the sleepers under six feet of silence,the vanished kings, the broken … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “The Dead Still Sing in Granite” – Ghostly Stones, v.4 (Revised while listening to The Doors)
T.A.E.’s Book Review – Reclaiming Style – Using Salvaged Materials to Create an Elegant Home by Maria Speake & Adam Hills
Reclaiming Style is less a conventional interiors manual than a persuasive meditation on what a home can mean when it is built from memory, repair, and intelligent reuse. The book promises to take readers “behind the scenes,” and that phrase is exact: its drama lies not only in the finished rooms, but in the scavenging, … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Book Review – Reclaiming Style – Using Salvaged Materials to Create an Elegant Home by Maria Speake & Adam Hills
“Doppelgangers & Drama” – Poetcore Shakespeare: The Bard for Gen Z
(T.A.E.’s LitBites) – A modern retelling of The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare Okay, listen — imagine a city where everyone suddenly thinks you’re someone else, and none of the rules about “personal space” apply. That’s the vibe. Two families. Two sets of twins. One city. Total chaos. Years ago, a man named Egeon got … Continue reading “Doppelgangers & Drama” – Poetcore Shakespeare: The Bard for Gen Z
Revisionist Poetry – “Where the Quiet Keeps” – Ghostly Stones, v.3
Marble and granite rise from the earthlike old thoughts that refuse to vanish,leaning into the weather,holding their names against rain,against sun,against the long dull hand of neglect. Time has not shattered them all at once.It has only softened them:the corners rounded,the lettering thin,the bright intention dulled to gray.Still, they standabove the bones they mark,above the … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Where the Quiet Keeps” – Ghostly Stones, v.3
T.A.E.’s Book Review – In Celebration of Balance & Opposable Thumbs, Collection 1 by Joe Sorren
In Celebration of Balance & Opposable Thumbs, Collection 1 by Joe Sorren is not merely an art collection—it is a philosophical atmosphere rendered in pigment, a meditation on fragility, wonder, and the strange dignity of awkwardness. To approach this book as a conventional monograph would be to miss its essential gesture; the artist is less … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Book Review – In Celebration of Balance & Opposable Thumbs, Collection 1 by Joe Sorren
“Crooked Crown: The Ultimate Royal Backstab” – Poetcore Shakespeare: The Bard for Gen Z
(T.A.E.’s LitBites) – A modern retelling of Richard III by William Shakespeare So here’s the vibe: the war is finally over. The long, messy family fight known as the Wars of the Roses is done, and the York family is on top. Peace, right? Everyone should be chilling. Except one guy. Richard. Richard, Duke of Gloucester, … Continue reading “Crooked Crown: The Ultimate Royal Backstab” – Poetcore Shakespeare: The Bard for Gen Z
Revisionist Poetry – “Epitaphs in Stone” – Ghostly Stones, v.2
Ancient stones of marble and granitestand half-upright in their weathered rows,raised to remember,so often left behind.Sun bleaches their faces;rain stains their names;traffic and timework together to soften the edges. Their surfaces carry the hand of years,not gentle, but patient,as if memory itselfhad worn grooves into the grain.They keep watch over what is buried below,over the … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Epitaphs in Stone” – Ghostly Stones, v.2
T.A.E.’s Book Review – Easy Concrete: 43 DIY Projects for Home & Garden by Malena Skote
Malena Skote’s Easy Concrete: 43 DIY Projects for Home & Garden is a surprisingly graceful book for a material so often associated with heaviness. Published in 2010 and circulated in English-language editions under both Lark Books and New Holland, it presents concrete not as brute substance but as a medium for domestic invention. Library and … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Book Review – Easy Concrete: 43 DIY Projects for Home & Garden by Malena Skote
Revisionist Poetry – “The Woods with Rust in Their Throat” – A Bit of Goldsworthy & Adams, v.4… in a Tom Waits style lament…
I went down into the little suburban woodson a day when the sun was hot as a penny on a stove,and the leaves hung up therelike a room full of old lacegone brown at the edges. I was looking for the fallen ones,the trunks with their collars split open,the branches thrown out widelike a drunk … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “The Woods with Rust in Their Throat” – A Bit of Goldsworthy & Adams, v.4… in a Tom Waits style lament…
The New Renaissance Mindset 