Norman Ball is a Scottish-born writer, musician, and entrepreneur who lives in the Washington, D.C. area. A Push Prize nominee and an associate editor for The Potomac: A Journal of Poetry and Politics, his writing appears regularly in eScene's Best of the Literary Journal series. In 2006, Identity Theory gave his essay "Big Government and the Big Easy" the Social Justice of the Year award. His poetry and essays have appeared in many national publications including Prairie Home Companion, Liberty, Berkeley Poetry Review, Light Quarterly, and Raintown Review. His most recent book is How Can We Make Your Power More Comfortable? 
Documentaries · Philosophy · Religion & Spirituality
“All time exists all the time” – from the documentary What Is Reality? * * * Emancipate yourself from the tunnel-visioned timekeeper! Return the unbending arrow of time to its[…]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Our innate modesty and abhorrence of insularity, self-referencing, self-reflexivity, and, well, self-everything would normally prohibit us from publishing this piece. But we were so captivated by this tribute[…]
“I wish I was beside her but I’m not there, I’m gone” — from I’m Not There, Bob Dylan
Documentaries · Essays · Reviews
“To be sure, only a redeemed mankind receives the fullness of its past — which is to say, only for a redeemed mankind has its past become citable in all its moments. Each moment it has lived becomes a citation a l’ordre du jour — and that day is Judgment Day.” – from “On the Concept of History” by Walter Benjamin
“Are we watching a faux-documentary within an entertainment vehicle? One suspects only Banksy knows. And he’s too busy painting to tell us.”
Documentaries · Music & Musicals · Reviews
“How does Tibet’s cultural destruction differ, in essence, from Time-Warner’s choreographed glamorization of bitches and ho’s in inner-city America, or death metal’s hold over disenfranchised Midwestern youth?”
I screened Lars Von Trier’s new film Antichrist a few nights ago in bed, on my iPod touch (insert slightly guilty shrug), while my wife slept beside me. Throughout most[…]
Activist & Political · Essays · Silents
“The old world is dying away, and the new world struggles to come forth: now is the time of monsters.”
Please dispose of all reality at the back of the theatre An emancipated society . . . should rather point to the bad equality of today, the identity of film[…]
