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Etch a Day (or so)

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I'm in a creative mood. I thought I would upload an etch a day to Flickr, maybe comment, or maybe just use it to junk my brain. These are done online with a mouse and a flash application.
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Amy McDonald Chapman pretends to write here from time to time. This is her virtual outpost, with occasional interjections from her writerly partner in crime Derek Chapman. Aesthetics, music, comedy, film, writing, kitsch, retro, fashion, ideas, architecture, bad art/good art.

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where are the comments? | September 17, 2007

The short answer is: I don't have comments because I don't "blog"; I write. As much as I try to I can't bring myself to view this, this little thing full of words and images that you are looking at,...... [read more]

making poetry submissions | January 30, 2007

There are scads of articles and advice to beginning writers on how to get published. Sometimes this information gets trite but most beginning anybody need a little prod and a little advice along the way. It's been about 6 long...... [read more]

some thoughts on writing | January 10, 2007

What are you inspired by? In every season, it's something new. These days I try to be inspired by anything other than writing about writing. I'll even read art criticism over literary criticism. The languages of each world are so...... [read more]

what's in a name | January 27, 2006

I'm not meaning to be strange here, but I've just discovered that the name "shookfoil" is no longer exclusive to this site (there is a blogger by that name, and others who bought the .com and .net versions). This comes...... [read more]

beyond magazine | June 12, 2005

Just yesterday I got a new issue of this beautiful magazine called Beyond. They have a website at www.beyondmag.com. I used to be quite a magazine and zine freak. I still have collections of some of my favorites, most of...... [read more]

meaning of shookfoil | April 14, 2005

For anyone who was wondering. For a couple of years I was really, really into the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins. He was a priest poet teacher in the 19th century. One of his most known poems is called God's...... [read more]

Leaf | March 28, 2005

when we haven’t seen His beauty in a while, we fall for any passing pleasure, and then we turn back to leaf, coming down and kissing window in early spring winds, and we are reminded again of His realm of...... [read more]

north and south | August 2, 2004

Although I've been thinking about doing it for awhile, I finally bought one of Flannery O'Connor's books yesterday. Derek and I have this ongoing conversation between the North and South in America. (Him being very Southern, me being very Northern.)...... [read more]