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The Urchin Travel Wish List
‘Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted color off, And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark’ Don’t mind if I do! As long as you don’t go by Shakespeare’s depiction of Denmark, the Scandinavian country is supposed to be … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborative, Travel
Tagged Allen Ginsberg, baltic sea, bornholm, copenhagen, denmark, expatriates, fyodor dostoyevsky, Hamlet, Jack Kerouac, mohamed choukri, morocco, naked lunch, notes from underground, paul bowles, russia, st. petersburg, tangier, tennessee williams, white nights, white nights festival, william burroughs, william shakespeare
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High Noon Urchins
Have you reckoned a thousand acres much? Have you reckoned the earth much? Have you practiced so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems? —from Leaves of Grass by Walt … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborative, Examples in Urchinism, High Noon Urchins, Literature
Tagged Christmas, christmas stockings, clement clarke moore, father christmas, Geo Ong, leaves of grass, margaret hedderman, Nature, onesie, pajamas, poem, poetry, prospero, santa claus, sarah jost, song of myself, st. nicholas, the tempest, transcendentalism, twas the night before christmas, walt whitman, william shakespeare
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Learning by the Book: Why Picture Books Are Important (Despite What They May Say)
By Geo Ong The New York Times recently published an article titled ‘Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children’, where the article’s author Julie Bosman explores the recent decline in popularity of children’s picture books. Though there may be … Continue reading
Posted in Geo, Literature
Tagged books, bookstores, candlewick press, child development, children, children's books, college, creativity, dara la porte, education, flower fairies, Harvard, high school, imagination, in the night kitchen, jodi picoult, julie bosman, karen lotz, learning, maurice sendak, mitch albom, munro leaf, nicholas sparks, noodle, parenting, picture books, picture books no longer a staple for children, politics and prose, pressure, reading, school, stephanie meyer, the new york times, twilight, university, Washington D.C., william shakespeare, young readers
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Adventures in Bookselling
By Geo Ong As a bookseller for an independent bookshoppe, I work a lot of book events: author signings, book release parties, things like that. Some of these are fun. I’ve meet a lot of authors, and most of them … Continue reading
Posted in Art & Money, Geo, Literature
Tagged beverly hills, book events, book release party, books, bookstores, borders, chain bookstores, chris cleave, corporate bookstores, diesel bookstore, independent bookstores, libraries, money, richard matheson, samuel beckett, used books, william shakespeare
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A Play on My Words: Theatre-Going and Its Effects on an Urchin
By Geo Ong Ah, the thee-ay-tah! A few months back, I watched a production of Love’s Labour’s Lost by William Shakespeare (heard of him?) at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica. I was actually there as a bookseller – Diesel had some … Continue reading
Posted in Examples in Urchinism, Geo, Literature, Theatre
Tagged books, bookstores, broad stage, charlie and the chocolate factory, charlie chaplin, diesel bookstore, faust, federico fellini, inspiration, johann wolfgang von goethe, love's labour's lost, play, punchdrunk, roald dahl, santa monica, Theatre, william shakespeare
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You Know You’re an Urchin When…
…you make up words knowing one day they’ll be added to the dictionary. Just like Shakespeare. …your idea of a great Hallowe’en costume is one that involves a lengthy explanation. …a party ain’t a party unless it’s themed. …you recycle recycled … Continue reading
