Once upon a time there was a girl who dreamed of bongos in basements. She’d seen a tv show about beatniks. They were strange people with sunglasses and berets and they beat on drums and they spoke weird sentences. The girls looked sharp in tight pants and long hair. They wore interesting jewelry. The girl … Continue reading Story Time Sunday on Monday — 10/27/2014 — Dreaming of Basements
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Story time Sunday, 10/19/2014 — a slight struggle to tell an almost true story
Once upon a time there was a woman. Once upon a time there was a man. They were old. Not Alzheimers old. Not Baucis and Philemon old. But old. Wait a minute you say. That can’t be a story. Why not? Because only young people have adventures. Have sex. Make discoveries. Are beautiful. Well, you … Continue reading Story time Sunday, 10/19/2014 — a slight struggle to tell an almost true story
Story Time Sunday, 02/09/14: 14 and 2 — a semi-true fairy tale
Once upon a time there were 14 architects. They lived in a new country and spoke a new language invented by linguistics scientists in a secret desert laboratory. The scientists worked with teeth sounds and tongue sounds and found the perfect words to go with the human mouth and then they came out and taught … Continue reading Story Time Sunday, 02/09/14: 14 and 2 — a semi-true fairy tale
story time sunday, 08/04/13 — an Aesop reboot
Once upon there was a woman who ran slow. She also swam slow, jumped slow (which meant she couldn’t really jump), and swung a bat or a racket or a golf club slow. There was nothing wrong with her physically. She had two legs and two arms and two knees and two feet and two … Continue reading story time sunday, 08/04/13 — an Aesop reboot
Story Time Sunday: a Grimm Brothers Reboot July 14th 2013 (for grown ups only)
People, all I can say is: Do NOT fuck with the Virgin Mary I’m nice, I’m the mother of the J-man, who is God after all. But I just have to tell you – do NOT PISS ME OFF. I know when you are lying. I know when you are sleeping etc. Sort of like … Continue reading Story Time Sunday: a Grimm Brothers Reboot July 14th 2013 (for grown ups only)
Sunday Special Edition: getting it right side up… March 17th 2013
Dear Friends – How can we talk in a fresh way about the extreme socio-economic inequities that plague our globe in the 21st century? Or better, how do we show them to ourselves and each other in ways that make us stop, think, wonder, ask? I would like to say that it is easy for … Continue reading Sunday Special Edition: getting it right side up… March 17th 2013
storytime sunday 02/03/13 — A good man is hard to find (and write about)
Once upon a time there was a good man. As you know, there is so much discussion about not so nice men and downright bad men – their comings and goings, their troubled pursuits, their longings for redemption, the twilights of their punctured souls, their complex inner struggles and the delicate play of their morally … Continue reading storytime sunday 02/03/13 — A good man is hard to find (and write about)
story time Sunday, January 27th, 2013, “the woman in the woods”
A story for enlightened grown ups -- The woman in the woods Once upon a time there was a woman in the woods. She was a wild woman, because she had to be. She was an angry woman, because she had to be. Her anger kept her strong, strong enough to build a house out … Continue reading story time Sunday, January 27th, 2013, “the woman in the woods”
Storytime Sunday returns — August 19th 2012
A story about what gets thrown out. Refuse-niks Once upon a time there were a pair of gloves, a green German hat, and a rocket. They met in the dumpster at the corner of Rosewood and Fairfax, where the homeless lady in the miniskirt and the unzipped Prada boots liked to rummage. But she had … Continue reading Storytime Sunday returns — August 19th 2012
Storytime Sunday @ Magically Real 02/19/12
Maccabee and Maccabee Maccabee and Maccabee are a father and daughter team that make and wear magical masks. Monsters and mermaids. The sun. The moon. Animals and objects that have never been. Philosophical concepts like phenomena and noumena. The categorical imperative and the will to power. Maccabee masks give faces to the impossible. It started … Continue reading Storytime Sunday @ Magically Real 02/19/12
Stephanie Barbé Hammer Writing (Un) Real 