Monthly Archives: January 2017

We all of us live mostly in dreams, fantasy, and illusion.

(Achieving the Poet Dream and Author Dream with/thanks to Glen) (The Music Performer Dream, 1974–one of several bands I created; I played for audiences from 1967 to 2002) “Life is a dream” wrote Montaigne, the guy who inspired this blog. … Continue reading

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Orwell’s “politics of language”

with its political agendas is now truer than ever in the West. Every day now, citizens and workers are told what the latest offensive terms are, and some absurd new wording is being coined in the name of political correctness. … Continue reading

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The 12 classics that are required viewing by the age of 21 for a wanna-be true film aficionado:

Dr. Strangelove Psycho Citizen Kane 2001: A Space Odyssey Casablanca Lawrence of Arabia The Third Man The Godfather: Part II Annie Hall The Graduate Nashville JFK

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10 books all Canadian high school students should be required tor read (still):

Hamlet Macbeth Lord of the Flies Nineteen Eighty-Four Brave New World A Christmas Carol The Great Gatsby To Kill a Mockingbird Animal Farm The Grapes of Wrath

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1 in 5 young adults between 18 and 24 in the U.K.

don’t own a book.

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Obit: John Hurt, 77

No one could have played Winston Smith, Raskolnikov, and the Elephant Man more ‘hurt’ than him.

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Headline Today:

Liberals Look to Artificial Intelligence (since they have none of their own?)

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Memories of Summer

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Obit

Mary Tyler Moore, 80. Star of one of TV’s greatest-ever sitcoms. Fabulous cast of characters. Her complete show collection is consistently entertaining season by season.

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Another Splendid Hitchcock Adaptation

is Frenzy with Anthony Schaffer. Spoiler alert: It exceeds its source material, by providing a more appropriate resolved ending in which the ‘born loser’ finally wins and is vindicated of suspicion in the necktie murders, the added, hilarious inspector-wife gourmet … Continue reading

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