Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Eating Our Way to Extinction | Full Film | 4K

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Tuesday, January 17, 2023

The Front Desk: Vow of Silence ft. Fred Armisen

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    The comedian and YouTube political commentator RM Brown was using samples of this video to illustrate how ridiculous partisan politic...
Tuesday, November 08, 2022

Reading From Will and Ariel Durant's "The Story of Civilization" Book VII Chapter XIX

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I found the discussion of Gustavus Adolphus and his daughter Christina to be fascinating and thought I'd share some of it. The Durant...
Monday, November 07, 2022

Back In The Day

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I'm almost through Volume VII of " The Story of Civilization " series by Will and Ariel Durant. Volume VII is titled "...
Friday, January 22, 2021

Poet Amanda Gorman reads 'The Hill We Climb'

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The essay in the NYT by Timothy Egan titled " A President Can Govern in Poetry " reminded me of Amanda Gorman's wonderful read...
Thursday, November 05, 2020

Livin Large

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Walt Whitman wrote in his poem  Song of Myself,   "Do I contradict myself?  Very well then I contradict myself,  (I am large, I contain...
Saturday, October 10, 2020

Life is Like a Tackle Box

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Friday, October 02, 2020

How Fox News and Right-Wing Media Brainwashed This Dad

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Sunday, September 27, 2020

BREAKING NEWS! Trump Challenges Biden to Pissing Contest!!

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Sources are reporting that Donald Trump has challenged fellow septuagenarian Joe Biden to a pissing contest. Trump who claims to have the p...
Saturday, September 26, 2020

Handmaiden Nominated for Supreme Court

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Amy Coney Barrett, nominated to replace Justice Ruth Ginsberg, is a member of the group People of Praise. This ecumenical, but mostly Cathol...
Friday, September 25, 2020

One of The Golden Texts of Philosophy

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The quoted text below is from volume I pages 667-669 of Will and Ariel Durant's series of books " The Story of Civilization " ...
Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Buy The Ticket Take the Ride

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B and I went to see Hunter S. Thompson "speak" at the old  Gallatin Gateway Inn four decades ago or so. He was with Jerry Jeff ...
Sunday, September 20, 2020

"The Full Catastrophe" ~ Zorba the Greek (clip from the movie)

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Enough reading and talking. Dance  and  dance  and dance some more.
Friday, September 18, 2020

Tom Waits - Hold On

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Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Smoke (1995) - Auggie's Photo Album

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I think the 1995 movie Smoke has some subtle wisdom about paying attention to beautiful things around us. On the topic of philosophically i...
Monday, September 14, 2020

Ophelia (The Band cover) - With Tuba - Reina Del Cid

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Reina Del Cid and the musicians around her don't seem to take themselves all that seriously but I think they are seriously talented.
Sunday, September 13, 2020

Beyond the Sea (Bobby Darin cover) - Reina Del Cid

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Saturday, September 12, 2020

King of the Road - (Roger Miller cover) - Reina Del Cid

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Friday, September 11, 2020

In Praise of Doubt

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Half a century ago or so my Mother made a comment about an engineer she'd met playing bridge. That comment has stuck in my porous brain ...
Tuesday, September 01, 2020

All Day Long

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This scene with Jack Nicholson from the 1978 movie "Goin South" seems classic to me. You would have to watch the whole movie to un...