Monthly Archives: February 2021

Barbara Ann–The Beach Boys Rainy Day Women–Bob Dylan Mellow Yellow–Donovan Yellow Submarine–The Beatles

correctly puts it, in the impeachment trial, we are seeing two views of America. One is the desperate, declining, lawless, olde white male supremacist lie version of America. The other is the more honest, truer, diverse, representative, emerging America trying … Continue reading →

Who wrote it? Shakespeare. When, in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one … Continue reading →

Only Shakespeare could have written it. Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments; love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no, it is an ever-fixed … Continue reading →

Shakespeare wrote it. Who else could have? The expense of spirit in a waste of shame Is lust in action; and till action, lust Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame, Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust; Enjoyed no … Continue reading →

Based on Wallace Shawn’s unconventional, intense stage play (really dialogues and conversation between three actors), the DVD version is not recommended until you have read the original play. Reason: It is a play mainly of ideas about the conflict between … Continue reading →

(after Glenn Gould’s The Idea of North) (We have administered these vast territories of North in an almost continuing state of mind…) High latitude vast flatness of poles wind a whitewash breathing lungs stone-cold (I have an enormous compulsion to … Continue reading →

Not exactly a day to put out cats for nomadic travels unless quick popsicle pusses are the goal. Saw some guy on Weather Network driving a nail into a board with a frozen banana. Wife reminded me that in ’67 … Continue reading →

Winter City? Frozen North? (fact) Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” or Sam McGee incarnate. Too bloody cold for rats. Snow blown across Xmas potholes. Someone else’s bad dream rammed down a senior’s throat like feckless mayors, windrows or snow-covered … Continue reading →

with his latest bang-on video about Marjorie Taylor Greene, available online.