Monthly Archives: March 2021

south of the border. The U.S. has a lo-n-g way to go to get back to the ’60s and ’70s progress it initially made on civil rights then. It remains a long walk to true equality and freedom for non-Caucasians … Continue reading →

Common sense and facts say this crime spree was racially hate-motivated. No-brainer despite all the folks south of the border in denial or trying to ‘figure it out.’

How you spell ‘Relief’ in 2021. …………………………………. Nice to be walking the neighborhood on dry streets and sidewalks again. Nice to be cycling outdoors again, too. First ride yesterday. Light at the end of the tunnel. Turned on outdoor taps … Continue reading →

with the purchase of two classic books: an 1869 illustrated “Locksley Hall” by Tennyson and a Folio version of Browning’s Dramatic Monologues with “My Last Duchess”, “Fra Lippo Lippi”, “The Bishop Orders His Tomb” and others. These were poems that … Continue reading →

“Intergenerational emotional magic”. Spontaneous subliminal creativity. Have to remember to record on these on the fly in the night…

Jennifer Doudna, Nobel-Prize co-winner, co-discoverer of Crispr gene-editing technique; the idea that molecules can be coded or reprogrammed and told what to do. Her work on RNA has huge implications for our biological future. Walter Isaacson’s The Code Breaker is … Continue reading →

Wilson Bryan Key’s popular book about how advertising embeds seductive images in tv commercials. Something being revived by Pepsi’s latest commercial with faces and the like in the ice cubes. Vintage manipulation, indeed. Advertisers denied it was happening back then; … Continue reading →

Jason Kenney’s $82 thou/day War Room going after a popular Netflix Sasquatch cartoon movie. Which is the bigger, more inane cartoon? The Sasquatch one or Jason Kenney and his War Room?

“Jennifer Garner just pierced her ears for the first time.”