Gregory Crosby is a poet who took the advice of W.B. Yeats and only speaks through a mask; unfortunately it's a mask of his own face. He lives in New York.
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Haiku You
By Gregory Crosby
Posted in Stories and Appreciations on 16 August 2010
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The brevity of haiku is not only the soul of wit, but also the soul of a harried teacher’s week-long poetry unit. Too bad we’re doing it wrong.

Bad Dreams, Good Dreams
By Gregory Crosby
Posted in One Million Watts on 11 August 2010
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Christopher Nolan’s “Inception” is wanting. A movie about entering other people’s dreams, and the best Nolan can come up with is shoot-‘em-ups inside the local Hyatt?

The Dustbin of Million-Dollar Ideas
By Gregory Crosby
Posted in Lies and Entertainment on 19 July 2010
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I should be a millionaire several times over by this point in my life. Scores of venture capitalists should be clamoring to take me to lunch, and I’ll tell you why.

Geek Fire (with discussion questions)
By Gregory Crosby
Posted in Stories and Appreciations on 12 July 2010
Stats: 790 views and 5 Comments

“Everyone starts out as a Nerd, usually in junior high, and either progresses through Dorkdom in high school towards Geekdom or alas remains trapped as a Nerd well into adulthood.”

How to Read “Ulysses”
By Gregory Crosby
Posted in Stories and Appreciations on 16 June 2010
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“Ulysses” follows the wanderings of one Leopold Bloom as he navigates Dublin on June 16, 1904, thus giving intellectuals their own version of St. Patrick’s Day.

Long Summer Days Spent in XTC
By Gregory Crosby
Posted in Stories and Appreciations on 4 May 2010
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Fans of XTC might direct the uninitiated to early albums like “Drums and Wires,” and that’s fine. But to get the band’s full pastoral punch, only “English Settlement” and “Skylarking” will do.

Aphorisms Found in an Aging Pop Critic’s Notebook
By Gregory Crosby
Posted in One Million Watts on 23 November 2009
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Such an amorphous and vague term as “emo” isn’t very descriptive (isn’t half of all pop whiny, self-pitying and neurotic?), but since the phrase doesn’t attach itself to any bands that one likes, one feels safe in ignoring it.

A Complete History of the World in Halloween Costumes
By Gregory Crosby
Posted in Lies and Entertainment on 30 October 2009
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My father dresses me as Kaiser Wilhelm II. I have little say in this, as I am three at the time. My expression at least resembles the Kaiser’s when he finds out he’s lost the war.