Monthly Archives: November 2017

–Jim Goodwin      

Trump is to Rupert Pupkin in Scorcese’s The King of Comedy?

He’s got it down good by now. His role for re-election: Cry on cue. Say you’re sorry. Give out big money. Repeat ad nauseam whenever the Liberals are questioned or in trouble. Is there a pattern here? Is he a … Continue reading →

  (pet-friends)   (family-friends) (work-friends) (childhood-teenage-friends) (writer-friends) (musical-friends) (love- and spouse-friends) A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter; he that has found one has found a treasure. –Apocrypha, Ecclesiasticus To the query, “What is a friend?” his reply was, “A … Continue reading →

What about the creative state? In it a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. –E.M. Forster Every creative act … Continue reading →

Someone has said that conversation is sex for the soul. –Isabel Allende The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man’s observation, not overturning it. –Edward George Bulwer-Lytton The real art of conversation is not only to say … Continue reading →

Life beats down and crushes the soul, and art reminds you that you have one. –Stella Adler We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. –Pablo Picasso Art enables us to … Continue reading →

Prince Harry’s engagement to Markle. Hardly hard news.

corporations started withdrawing their advertising. It’s only for money reasons that they climbed on their high moral horse. Money talks everywhere in North America; no, online is not immune to Mammon. Hardly sacred or nobler than elsewhere.

seems to be much of what this blog has become of late. Alternate perspective and common sense. So much non-Truth going down of late. Lots of p.c. optics and window dressing, and professing of goodness and innocence in a non-stop maelstrom … Continue reading →