Monthly Archives: July 2016

The Money Obsession Carried to Its Extreme

Grocer in India beheads a couple who owed 29 cents and asked for more time to pay up. Craziness and obsession with money = extreme violence and cold-blooded murder. Money and the making of it is often more important than … Continue reading

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One of the Funniest People Who Ever Lived: The Great Peter Ustinov

(top: A Ustinov masterpiece: extraordinarily and stunningly, he does all the voices, interviews, car sounds, and other sound effects; completely written and performed by him; what other comedian can you think of who has done that much this fabulously well?) … Continue reading

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And many are the voices one hears in the course of a day

that one would not choose to live with or even have anything to do with. After physical appearances, voices are most important in choosing someone you’d like to spend some or much time with.

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The trick, he concluded,

(blog entry on living imaginatively, richly and deeply, Prospero-ly: cultivating, enhancing, and facilitating life and personal possibilities; minimizing chaos, manipulations, and madness, particularly of others) …was to pour whatever genius, talent, or inner gifts into daily life and its choices. He would evoke … Continue reading

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On Paul Simon’s “Troubling” Performance of “Bridge over Troubled Water” at DNC

1. Paul Simon singing his song at age 74 is not to be compared with a young Garfunkle singing this song in 1970. 2. Simon wrote the song. He has lived the song, and is entitled to perform the song … Continue reading

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All Those Bashed-in Back-ends Out There

From too many people still following too closely, moving forward in their own minds irrespective of actual physical conditions and other people’s situations. But most of these bashed-ins self-inflicted by unnecessary, gratuitous, ‘smart’ backing-in on parking lots everywhere you go. … Continue reading

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I appreciate how…

(how Nature affects our lives in context via setting and atmosphere–in Canada for sure) (Nature as source of Beauty) (Nature in our daily contexts and connections: pets) (whatever human places and habitations framed by Nature) (perspective: Nature found throughout life unto … Continue reading

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Either/Or, At the Edge: Antiques Roadshow Style

An early 1900s ‘found art object’ recovered from the trash. A glassed-in box with sand on the bottom, stars (which look like kids’ conception of pointy stars) on the background. A single wooden pole with a ring across the width … Continue reading

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Orson Welles to a Small MidWest Audience Turnout Speaking Engagement in Winter:

(arguably Orson’s greatest turn as an actor: the WW II racketeer Harry Lime in the Vienna sewers on the lam from the law in Graham Greene’s The Third Man, directed by Carol Reed with Welles’  improvised speech about Swiss cuckoo … Continue reading

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Red-Letter Day for a Book Collector-Blogger

(the exterior of the hardback) (page 1) (the limitations page, signed and numbered) Today I received my expensive, very rare, fine-conditioned, slipcased 1930 book of Virginia Woolf’s A Street Haunting, the only book which she had published in the States … Continue reading

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