http://www.untrenchant.com maybe we need a bigger hammer. Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:27:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en POETRY Before the bees died By Leigh Tuckman POETRY The trial of Formosus One of the Vatican's less noble moments. By Daniel Wright GAMES MLB '07: Totally Pointless A game review hidden in a technological diatribe. By Kevin Clair http://www.untrenchant.com/?p=95 I've always been something of a gamer-from-a-distance. I would liken my relationship with that scene to a second language. I read Penny Arcade, so I know the relevant titles (albeit with a certain editorial slant applied to them), and I can smile, nod politely, and generally be aware of what is being discussed ... http://www.untrenchant.com/?p=89 "Read - how there was a ghastly Trial once Of a dead man by a live man, and both, Popes: ... They set it, that dead body of a Pope, Clothed in pontific vesture now again, Upright on Peter's chair as if alive."   - Robert Browning I: The Accusation We bowed to you, and bent to kiss your ... http://www.untrenchant.com/?p=86 Although it was November and the ground was coated in a thin layer of frost, when I woke in the middle of the night my sheets clung to my body, wet with sweat. I shook them from me, grabbed the telephone, and dialed your number, long distance be damned. You answered on the second ring. ... http://www.untrenchant.com/?p=80 FEATURES A thousand words: The Dismemberment Plan A story of a band, a picture, and everything in between. By Kevin Clair POETRY The warrior pope on his deathbed On the final words of Pope Julius II.  By Daniel Wright THOUGHTS Age is a state of mind, and I'm old Reflections on the first intermission in the hockey game of life.  By ... http://www.untrenchant.com/?p=55 I will be damned, my son, and so I should. The canon says "Thou shalt not kill." I killed. I stole a sacred post, for earthly good. God's judges knew no Law but what I willed. The Lord, my judge, must cast me to the pit, consign me to despair unending; may He know that ... http://www.untrenchant.com/?p=48 1. La Fin du Monde is declared the national beer of Canada. Hundreds of Ontarians assume it is no different from Molson, and drink entire cases of it; Toronto-area hospitals report sharp spike in admissions for alcohol poisoning. 2. Parliament convenes in special session to rename all ... http://www.untrenchant.com/?p=52 I turned 25 yesterday. Not metaphorically either, but quite literally and even prosaically. After all, at 25, the exciting birthday milestones are really all done for: driving age, drafting age, drinking age. My consolation prize this year, rather like getting a goldfish for ... http://www.untrenchant.com/?p=49 Here is a picture of a show I recently attended: It is not one of my better pictures; from a technical standpoint, I would probably rate it among my worst. The exposure is all wrong, the lighting isn't any good, and it doesn't even begin to focus ... http://www.untrenchant.com/?p=44 Untrenchant is migrating and coming back anew in the next few weeks. http://www.untrenchant.com/?p=1