Extraordinary Discourse Podcast

Quality Twaddle All ideas are secondhand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources. We are constantly littering our literature with disconnected sentences borrowed from books at some unremembered time and now imagined to be our own. Mark Twain 

FUN! DING! Everywhere the birds can fly, your words can fly. bpNichol 

A Cultural Counter-Environment Whether slow or speedy, he that seeks will find. Always apply with both hands the pursuit. For search is an excellent guide. Rumi

Talk Treasure Train One could go even further and argue, after Walter Benjamin, that the product of the analytical mode is information, whereas the product of storytelling is wisdom. Maria Popova

A Morning At The Talk House With his fine tenor voice Joyce knew better than most that we read not with the eye but with the ear. Frank Delaney

Tangential Not Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination …  Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery — celebrate it if you feel like it. Jim Jarmusch [MovieMaker] 

Well Said If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears… Arnold Schoenberg