Monthly Archives: March 2018

A Strong 2017 Documentary DVD on van Gogh

Highly recommended. Seventh Art Productions’ of Exhibition on Screen: Vincent van Gogh: A New Way of Seeing, a fullish 90 min. documentary from the Amsterdam van Gogh Museum nicely covering his life and art. The viewer gets to visit the … Continue reading

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Sure I’ve been living in the Palace of Art

the last 50 years, but I wouldn’t trade any of that repository of spiritual riches for all the human ignorance, stupidity, corruption, violence, meanness, and the lowest common denominator ‘out there’ today. I refuse (still) to be bought and sold … Continue reading

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You can bet your bottom dollar that

whatever misery and suffering is inflicted on human beings is caused by other human beings. Everything, everywhere, all the time.

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Of Note: Real Authentic Problems and the So-Limited Digital Age

No hurricanes, earthquakes, nuclear winters, floods, falling space junk and meteorites, tornados, assaults, and wars will ever be stopped or prevented by your phone, an app, social media or the Internet. No meaningful relationships are guaranteed by the new technology either. … Continue reading

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Re. Schools and ‘Education’ Today

No kids have the teacher background (now that millennials have made their ways into the system) or enough adult experience to call shots on designing and teaching their own curriculum to themselves. To let kids very limitedly learn on their … Continue reading

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“A little learning is a dangerous thing.”

Especially when it’s as little the political correctness politics propaganda on campus these days, about as far away from a genuine liberal arts education as one get. Long gone are courses of true depth and critical thinking sans political-correct agendas.

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Default by Techno

No bot could ever replace a sky. No phone will ever stop the tides. Nor any hack nullify our limitless love. No avatar could supplant you in any case. Nor any cloud clone Monet nor any bug take down Beethoven. The variables … Continue reading

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Monet: The Great Impressionist

One viewing of the beautiful labor-of-love 90 minute Exhibition on Screen: I, Claude Monet DVD about his life and art, should convince most people that he was as great as van Gogh and perhaps the best and most significantly prolific Impressionist … Continue reading

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The Feel-Good Pop Love Songs of All-Time

The Air That I Breathe–The Hollies All I Have to Do Is Dream–Everly Brothers All My Loving–The Beatles And I Love Her–The Beatles Ask Me Why–The Beatles Because–The Dave Clark Five Brown-Eyed Girl–Van Morrison Bus Stop–The Hollies Can’t Help Falling … Continue reading

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Rubber Ducky

will never be the same again. Recent study shows it harbors bacteria. The end of innocence in time for Easter, 2018.

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