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Recent Reviews for S. Donovan Mullaney
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Follow the Wolf Moon (Book) - 1/25/2006 5:41:48 PM
Follow the Wolf Moon captures in title the nights of which I live, being a wolf keeper myself. Good luck to you S. Donovan Mullaney and welcome to the Den, sir. You will find it to your liking and much appreciation to you for sharing your work with us. Blessed Be.
Sage
Horsemen's Tales: Ch. 1 (Short Story) - 1/2/2007 10:02:00 PM
A story of the equine model and a lad molded out of a grandfather's own shoe of strong character. It is often that our grandparents are the ones who have shaped us into sturdy adults. Horseman's Tales: Ch. 1 is the hallmark and visual of a potential film narrated by Mr. Mullaney. The storyline speaks a language of familial and equine bonding, a celebration of horses and the families who keep them. Mr. Mullaney delivers both imagery and storyline that embody the spirit that the Arabs say the wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears. Whispers the soft breeze of the petals of spring, Shea...
Sage
The Idiot's Guide to Miraculous Living (Short Story) - 12/6/2006 5:36:12 PM
You hit a homerun here, and I hope everybody doesn't miss it! The Idiot's Guide to Miraculous Living has no fixed price that is negotiable and we aren't waiting in an outer office for insult. You've offered some comforting knowledge here to help an individual function well in society...it's a good way to live. The speed, extent, and intensity of social change in our culture is mind-boggling indeed and uplifting writings like this leaves our attitudes and environments far more durable. Confronted with challenge, we adapt. You leave us with positive energy, Shea...Blessed Be...
Sage
Art of Leaving Space: Generosity (Article) - 3/6/2007 8:17:35 AM
:) and your spaces on the stars.. We may create the word now; "space" it to me.
We All Get It In The End; The Question Is, Which End? (Article) - 12/13/2006 3:12:09 PM
Very well-written article, the title directs our attention to the big high hard one!
When asked why he used explicit and non-simulated sex scenes in the film, this is what John Cameron Mitchell had to say:
John Cameron Mitchell: I think it has different functions in every scene. Overall, we wanted to challenge people’s expectations of sex on film as well as in their own life. A lot of sex in films is connected to pure, compartmentalised arousal, or to something very negative, trauma or abuse. But people are surprised by it. They say: “It’s not what I expected; it’s funny.” And I say: “Well, what do you expect? Do you really have such a narrow view of sex in your own life? Do you ever laugh when you’re having sex, or is it always a trauma? Why not in a film, if it’s in your life?”
I understand logistically, culturally, financially why sex is challenging in film. But personally, I feel patronised when I see a serious, adult film about relationships and the sex begins and they dissolve to the end. Why am I being treated like a child? If I can handle it in life, why can’t I handle it in film? There are just so many interesting things that happen during sex, just dramatically. It’s hilarious, it’s moving, it’s boring, it’s all those kinds of things that everything else in your life is. It’s just more intense and revealing.
Growing up as a Catholic I certainly understand the fear of it. It has this irrational power, so we try to compartmentalise it, minimise it because it is so powerful. Powerful in a different way, say, than violence. In film, violence is generally a power. It’s usually very simple, and much more easily digested: they killed his wife, now he’s going to blow away the bad guys. It’s easy. Sex is, oddly, less easy than violence. It’s more complicated in films, so most people just avoid it. When you get into the complexities of filmmakers ready to handle sex or violence, a Michael Haneke perhaps, people generally don’t want to hear it – it’s too much.
So in our case, the humour and all those things we use, including the Hollywood filmmaking tropes, were very useful in couching the sex, using the sex as a vehicle. It’s a gentle way of reminding people that sex is really not that scary, and is perhaps something that we should integrate a bit more in our lives, talk about it a bit more. So it’s less frightening.
Here is what Sage Sweetwater has to say about censorship and pornography. First and foremost, SHORTBUS should not have a rating and I am pleased that it does not carry a rating. Viewers should familiarize themselves with John Cameron Mitchell and know the genre in which he works! If it does not appeal to one, then one should look elsewhere for entertainment. Homosexual cinema, writing, poetry, dance, and various homosexual creative outlets are ARTISTIC and therefore representations of the gay lifestyle, not porn and should not be censored. On the subject of auto-fellatio, Sage Sweetwater thinks it is not how hung a male is, it is how well he has developed his neck and back muscles and how far he can comfortably bend to self-pleasure! Yoga looks good. Recently one of Sage Sweetwater's AD lesbian poems 'A Whiter Shade of Pale' was showcased on a website called our 'Our Project is Gay' and she shares in this review to Mr. Mullaney what 'Our Project Is Gay' makes as an artist's statement: Homosexuality is Art: Gay as Art:
The Beauty of Same-Sex
Love In Writing.
Our Project:
Homosexuality as Art.
"Instead of constructing homosexuality in the language of negatives, we want to construct it in terms of what it is. Beautiful. It's hard to communicate the beauty of same-sex love when one is always defending it from accusations, of perversion, disease, and insanity.
"The better defense, we think, is to show it, not as "not," but as the beautiful thing that it is. And in order to show something as a work of art, you must use the language of art. And only the artist can do that.
"So we have compiled an expansive though hardly exhaustive list of queer artists who have projects similar to our own: to show homosexuality as the subject of an artwork, and as an artwork within itself. They are a diverse group, varying in artistic medium, amateur/professional status, gender/sexual identity, sexual orientation, etc, but they are tied together by this beauty they see in same-sex love. And through their art, they project and work to create not just an optimistic future, but an optimistic present."
http://web.mac.com/ourprojectisgay/iWeb/www.ourprojectisgay.mac.com/Gay%20Authors/Gay%20Authors.html
Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist
Bipolar Blues (Poetry) - 2/29/2008 5:52:32 PM
Oh those bipolar blues...seems like that's all you hear in the news. It is real for people who suffer. Nice poem.
Next Caller (Poetry) - 4/5/2007 8:07:13 PM
LOL, great delivery!!!!! Well done!
(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.
Ballad of a Haunted Oak (Poetry) - 4/5/2007 8:06:22 PM
This is AMAZING poetry, rich with imagery and emotion; excellent pen!
(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.
Came to your site at Sage's recommendation: glad I did.
Ballad of a Haunted Oak (Poetry) - 2/5/2007 7:02:10 AM
Wow! I cannot imagine such horrid thoughts that guiltless people hung for...Your write is a Keeper and well deserving to...
Amen to your pen...This Ballad will live, for all those innocent souls! God will see to it for the rest...
Love and Peace~
Kimmy~
Ballad of a Haunted Oak (Poetry) - 2/1/2007 11:39:38 AM
Trademark poetry from the renowned S. Donovan Mullaney. BALLAD OF A HAUNTED OAK is a mighty rendition of Dunbar's work. When a man is downed, in any century, he is more than a statistic. A man in trouble needs help fast. Why should thirty men and women risk their lives to save one guiltless? Mullaney hangs this one off the tree branch and lands it with the "hemp halter" endurance to the limits if man is to survive with his highest peer, Nature...(Sage Sweetwater)
Ballad of a Haunted Oak (Poetry) - 2/1/2007 5:18:20 AM
Enjoyed very much
Ballad of a Haunted Oak (Poetry) - 2/1/2007 3:07:53 AM
This is a gem! Enjoyed reading this.
Lisa
Ballad of a Haunted Oak (Poetry) - 2/1/2007 12:52:12 AM
That was excellent.Look forward to the next one.
Next Caller (Poetry) - 1/28/2007 9:28:31 AM
you wouldn't?
enjoyed the light humor and trials
Inside Phillis Wheatley (Poetry) - 1/27/2007 8:41:34 AM
Enjoyed this profound poetic exposition on the sometimes cruel ironies of history and race in the face of creative spiritual intelligence destined to perpetuate and expand not only itself but the sociopolitical environment that spawns it. The poet's recognition, appropriation, and exhultation of a powerful cultural legacy is both remarkable and admirable.
Aberjhani
Next Caller (Poetry) - 1/27/2007 8:37:26 AM
Priceless closing line. Enjoyed the read very much.
Aberjhani
Next Caller (Poetry) - 1/26/2007 9:40:33 AM
Sounds like the misunderstanding and hassles that are rife in entertainment, and radio, and TV. Now all we need is the one fingered salute to frost the cake! (-:
Light and Wisdom ...
Richard Lloyd Cederberg
Friend (Poetry) - 1/26/2007 9:14:52 AM
Thank you for being a friend, Shea. You are an exceptional human being considerate of all emotions. I cherish you. Thank you for being with me on our climb to the top of poetic literacy. It's where star meets star and horse meets time travel. Good luck to you in all of your creative endeavors.
Warmly,
Sage
Next Caller (Poetry) - 1/26/2007 6:29:30 AM
Light humor, with a hint of indulgence.
Good work.
Lisa
Plain Love Poem (Poetry) - 1/26/2007 5:04:37 AM
plainly love... but nothing plain about this beautiful poem of longing.
much enjoyed, thank you.
Alexandra*
Plain Love Poem (Poetry) - 1/26/2007 2:45:45 AM
Very interesting poem -- I enjoy the point of view here, speaking to love. Well done and a clever write.
Love,
CJ
Plain Love Poem (Poetry) - 1/26/2007 12:11:09 AM
i like the description love it
The Penny Man (Poetry) - 1/24/2007 6:17:49 PM
wonderful poem. I like this a lot.
A man once told me he collected every penny he found face up because everytime he passed one he felt it was Gods' way of testing him to see if he really did Trust in God, and every time he read "In God We Trust" on them he would smile and say he was lucky that God remembered to test him that day.
Thursday's Child (Poetry) - 1/24/2007 6:10:12 PM
Oh my Goodness. There is no way in hell I would let someone kill my baby! I would say it's sad but really it's just sick, I have two kids and if anyone, Doctor, Cop, Lawyer or even my own God tried to kill my babies they would have to kill me too.
It's difficult to raise a handicapped child, believe me I know, but I couldn't kill it. And certainly couldn't hold it down while someone did it.
I know I probablly missed the point but obviously my mommy instincts kicked in with this read, very powerful.
Shopper's Prayer (Poetry) - 1/24/2007 5:58:48 PM
I have said that paryer again and again, Of course I have thrown in the occassional, "Please help me with my twelve dollar oil change." And of course there is the dollar days, in which case it sounds more like this, "Lord please give me The courage to park in the parking lot without a bloodbath, the striength to push through the crowd that blocks the door, The wisdom to find another way in if I can't walk over the bodies." Amen!
Anyway (Poetry) - 1/18/2007 10:34:58 PM
My last drink, Hmmm...
I think a nice rum and pepsi extra on the rum.
Or perhaps a nice glass of Jack Danials.
Either way I figure it must be liqure over tea.
With liqure you get a little numb before the offing.
Great Read!
I Won't Die Today (Poetry) - 1/12/2007 5:29:59 AM
No time bound concept or 'path' can lead to where you already ARE.
– No conditions can bar your 'way' IN this natural presence.
– There is NO path 'to it' or 'away from it'. - THIS is it!
It is what you are. – Simply know that as the fact that it is and I can guarantee that ‘everything will fall into place’ for the mind.
All the problems of being a ‘seeker’ along with ‘the seeker’ itself are just reference points in mind.
There you have it -
No you cannot die today!
vesna
Measuring a Man (Poetry) - 1/6/2007 6:38:00 PM
Just beyond innocent and just short of steamy ... a very good write, indeed! Nice work!
Ted
Measuring a Man (Poetry) - 1/5/2007 11:01:10 AM
Man heat! This line is stroking HOT!
____________~501~69~_____________
"I wonder what tiger taught him how to eat"
My lesbian equivalent VINTAGE DENIM
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewpoetry.asp?id=164963
Mullaney's MEASURING A MAN, Sweetwater's VINTAGE DENIM playing pocket tag with the coin flap and popping rivets!!!
Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist
Measuring a Man (Poetry) - 1/5/2007 8:35:21 AM
Certainly in the world of the homosexual there is a plethora of rules that are inclusive to dancing around, and inbetween, the often insensate pyres of mist. Ofttimes these dances are embellished upon by each individual as an extension of personality.
Of course then, in the world of the heterosexual, these kinds of insights are just as unrestrained and convoluted, especially when one is playing the field.
My blessed wife and I are often given to helping each other see the other through the eyes of how we are seen and interpreted in the convoluted mindsets of others.
Light and Wisdom ...
Richard Lloyd Cederberg
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