Monthly Archives: October 2014

1. The Ultimate Scary Kids Movie: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (on The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad) 2. Ultimate Ghost Stories: The Innocents (1961)–Truman Capote-adapted version of Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw and The Haunting (1964)–based … Continue reading →

1964’s Black Like Me film has come out on DVD and will, no doubt, evoke the usual amused responses to James Whitmore’s weak makeup job, and there will be many pre-50-year-old viewers who write it off as simply politically incorrect … Continue reading →

About 1961 in grade 6, my friend Bob Hutchinson and I decided to take a chance and go trick-or-treating, although most of our classmates had stopped the practice, being ‘too old’. I went to one house on a ‘higher-up’ street … Continue reading →

We are who and what we are. We do and try our best for others as long as we can. We go as far as we can with our own unique gifts of self. And then, one day, we’re gone.

Give us this day our daily process/es. Our moments, hours, days, months, and years are made up of various processes we are part of or that we participate in. We are, at any given moment, at specific spots in these … Continue reading →

(photo of my Cream Goodbye album limited-edition-picture-disc: bassist-vocalist Jack Bruce on left, guitarist-vocalist Eric Clapton in middle, drummer Ginger Baker on right) Cream was the first, greatest, (and most short-lived) supergroup of all-time, 1967-1968. The never-dull Jack Bruce who just passed … Continue reading →

As suggested in the previous entry, Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent is a far more modern and relevant book than any of his others. His understanding of evil, ‘chaos theory’, terrorism, agendas, madness, and anarchy are second-to-none among the great … Continue reading →

(photo of great Hans Alexander Mueller woodcut illustration of Ossipon meeting ‘The Professor’ in The Secret Agent from 1942’s  A Conrad Argosy) …Joseph Conrad’s classic The Secret Agent, published in 1907. The New York Times called it “the most brilliant … Continue reading →

It is necessary for us to be open to and conscious of information from all systems, sources, and worlds. It is necessary to balance emotions, flesh, and blood with mind and spirit. The organism needs to open up to the life … Continue reading →

Miles got me thinkin’ which he is wont to do Unexpected overture piano & bass reaching for a first sentence climbing & then So what (ba-de-ba-de-ba) So what (ba-de-ba-de-ba) Cavalry charge led by modal man played slow & cool to … Continue reading →