Monthly Archives: January 2016

(left: the script signed by Wallace Shawn; right: highly recommended: the Criterion version with interviews with the 2 stars of the most famous talking-heads movie ever made) The great 1981 film classic directed by Louis Malle. Daring–consisting mainly of 2 … Continue reading →

George Orwell, author of Nineteen Eighty-four, forecast many things that have become truths and truisms today. Here are some quotes from that book and others by one of the most unappreciated authors of the twentieth century: The essence of being … Continue reading →

(t-shirt from Johnny Clegg concert; artist: South African’s Norman Catherine ) The Truths and Wisdom of the Many Famous To get to an entry/selection: look up by month and year in right-hand column on any of blog’s pages. Worth Remembering, Dec. … Continue reading →

Just finished watching an exuberant, over-the-top 1999 Royal Shakespeare Company live presentation on DVD of this play by Shakespeare, and had a familiar feeling as I watched (which I’ve had before through much of Cymbeline and Pericles). This play which was heavily … Continue reading →

It all went well till I got to the end of Thompson Drive which ran out of houses at the edge of the prairie. No 518. Thompson proper began in the 400s. In -30 I trudged aimlessly back and forth … Continue reading →

This here skating biz, it`s enough to put anyone on edge. Bladed ballet for some– kissing ice for me. My program is necessarily a short one: squeezed feet & aching sacro-iliac. My style arched & forever braced for collision. Free … Continue reading →

(for J. Merrick, 1862-90) Wearing his Sunday best the thing sits upright on his bed beside the open black dressing bag. His smooth girl’s hand gently strokes the razor shoehorn & cigarette case– the mirror long since removed. Picking up … Continue reading →

(Recommended–Lemon flavor,  Shakespeare’s visage on every wrapper; Accoutrements, Seattle)

“Follow your bliss.” ”Live from your own centre.’”–Joseph Campbell “Since in the world of time every man lives but one life, it is in himself that he must search for the secret of the Garden.”–Loren Eiseley Alienation is a word … Continue reading →

Basically, what life’s about–those transitory, ephemeral possibilities which an individual chooses or passes on. Very seldom does the same opportunity knock twice. The riskiest and most alive feelings and experiences are those which occur when one accepts and makes the … Continue reading →