Author Archives: Brian D. Butler

Read a little poetry

Posted on January 27, 2024 by Brian D. Butler

I can trace my love of poetry back to my 7th grade English teacher. For reasons lost to the fog of time, one day Natalie Fine handed me a book of poems by Langston Hughes and simply said, “I think … Continue reading →

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Paris with Eugène Atget

Posted on January 26, 2024 by Brian D. Butler

While searching for early Paris photographs for a project, I ran across the marvelous video below. The short film pairs the images by the pioneering street photographer Eugène Atget with the music of Wim Mertens. NB: If the video fails … Continue reading →

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Time Travel Philosophy

Posted on January 25, 2024 by Brian D. Butler

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Airport Lost and Found

Posted on January 24, 2024 by Brian D. Butler

Have you ever experienced that sinking feeling when your luggage failed to appear on the airport carousel ? Or have you ever reached your destination and realized that you left your headphones or other valuables in the airline seat pocket … Continue reading →

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Darkness Visible

Posted on January 23, 2024 by Brian D. Butler

I recently read Nick Harkaway’s exciting novel Titanium Noir. The blurb above is a better recommendation for the book than any review that I could ever post. If you haven’t read Harkaway, it’s not a bad place to start. After reading the … Continue reading →

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It was a bright cold day in April, so sweaters were necessary

Posted on January 22, 2024 by Brian D. Butler

Every knitter and Orwell fan that you know will want this free download: a knitting pattern for a sweater depicting the cover of the iconic Penguin Classics version of George Orwell’s 1984. “The pattern includes extra alphabet charts so that … Continue reading →

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it had been overrun by religious stupefiers, mountebanks, charlatans, obfuscators, and other dedicated misleaders,

Posted on January 21, 2024 by Brian D. Butler

“When young and full of fellow feeling, Professor Joseph Skizzen had been tormented by the thought that the human race (which he naïvely believed was made up of great composers, a few harmlessly lecherous painters, maybe a mathematician or a … Continue reading →

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Middle Earth Obsession

Posted on January 20, 2024 by Brian D. Butler

Like many Travel Between The Pages readers, I’m a big J.R.R.Tolkien fan. I can date my interest in Middle Earth back to a bit of graffiti that I saw on a wall in New York City’s Greenwich Village neighborhood when … Continue reading →

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Oh, horror upon horror!

Posted on January 19, 2024 by Brian D. Butler

Few writers have the ability to evoke a sense of horror and dread more effectively than Edgar Allan Poe, born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts. Poe’s parents were actors. Their bright but unstable son grew up to be … Continue reading →

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Clearing out the memes

Posted on January 18, 2024 by Brian D. Butler

 

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