Monthly Archives: September 2023

to make a ‘short cut’!The disrespect for culture and history is pretty much global these days.

“Imagination has no age and dreams are forever.”

Welcome to Alberta and our What-Me Worry? premier Danielle Smith who says there is no climate crisis even after another day of 10+ AQs throughout the province.  She also has previously, egregiously, gutted the provincial firefighting budget. The genuinely blind, … Continue reading →

Government officials in Canada seem to totally lack the interest and will to fix Canada’s health crisis.

(Criterion DVD, 2009) In the middle of German director’s Paris, Texas (1984), we see a crazy man on a long pedway over a Los Angeles freeway screaming symbolic lines like “There will be no safety zone!” to the vehicles passing … Continue reading →

one-man, one-vote (Democrats) toward mindless one-man rule (Republicans, Trump).

Relevance for our troubled times from his best (1989) album Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World: “One man, one vote–it’s the only way” “Don’t let us slip back into the dark” “You have to live with the crooked politician” “Standing at the … Continue reading →

Turning a beach-bum life/style into a financial empire worth billions in booze, cannabis, stores, restaurants, casinos, resorts, retirement communities, baseball teams, and videogames, far exceeding Jay Gatsby’s limited power and influence. Yet another rags-to-riches Horatio-Alger story, but with a Margarita … Continue reading →

(The movie that made Firth a star; the perfect Mr. Darcy) (The illustrated companion book) My own history with Austen goes back to grade 12, fall of 1966, when we read and studied Pride and Prejudice beginning in September. This … Continue reading →

The video circulating of the Texan who cut out half of his car roof so that Hoody Doody, his massive steer with gigantic horns, could ride with him on the local freeway. Hard to beat that image for iconic American … Continue reading →