The crux of this whole inadvertent series of writings is giving attention to words that resonate in my head, revealing themselves as very potent portals to understanding particular dire or…
Josh Coblentz
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Discipline: A Highly Personal and Tangential Etymology
by Josh Coblentz September 12, 2016I’m not sure when I became cognizant of the concept of discipline, but I remember instances in my childhood that would fall under the portion of its definition that relates…
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Creative Nonfiction / Essay
Fear: A Highly Personal and Tangential Etymology
by Josh Coblentz December 3, 2015Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, “There is nothing to fear but fear itself.” But recently I watched this old Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life episode, hosted by Alan Watts, that…
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Creative Nonfiction / Essay
80s: A Highly Personal and Tangential Etymology
by Josh Coblentz July 17, 2015Roughly in the middle of the 1980s I became a part of the earth, a ‘slice of life.’ Reagan’s reign, his empty actor vial of a self funneled Milton Friedman’s…
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Creative Nonfiction / Essay
Quitting: A Highly Personal and Tangential Etymology
by Josh Coblentz June 18, 2015Recently I quit a job. I felt slightly bad about it, sort of screwing over some people. The burden placed on those people, though, is not as large as the…
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The generally accepted archetype for all heavy music is Black Sabbath, and rightly so. Chuck Klosterman claims that Sabbath is the most underrated band in the history of rock music,…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayMusic
Faith: A Highly Personal and Tangential Etymology
by Josh Coblentz January 7, 2015Growing up with a mother who regularly taught Sunday School meant that I didn’t get to skip church much as a child. Faith was a word that circled around me…
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The first time I ever heard the word java it was as a slang for coffee. Probably on a cartoon or something. I avoided coffee until I was about 18…
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Literature
Rereading George Eliot’s Adam Bede: ‘Vanity of vanities! All is vanity’
by Josh Coblentz July 29, 2014When I was a twenty-two year old senior English Lit major, wanting to get all my credits squared away, I disinterestedly signed up for a class called ‘British Literature: 1800-1900.’…
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Read Part 1 here. *** Love Meetings (1964) Around the time that Pasolini was scouting locations for The Gospel According to Matthew (1964) he was also doing interviews all throughout…
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Since my fascination with Italian writer, director, poet Pier Paolo Pasolini has grown at a steady pace from when I first discovered him some six odd years ago upon watching…
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George Méliès’ most popular film, and likely for most the earliest film that has images still haunting our collective consciousness—thanks in part to a Smashing Pumpkins music video—is Le Voyage…
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In Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey Into Christian Hermeticism, the anonymous author says the following during his chapter on the Sixth Major Arcanum, The Lover: Regarding the antichrist, this…