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Category Archives: Literature/poetry/spoken word
poetry of the spectacle
Think Pickwick! Taking a tour of the real “occupied territories” with Allen Ginsberg Le spectacle n’est pas un ensemble d’images, mais un rapport social entre des personnes, médiatisé par des images. … …Il n’est pas un supplément au monde réel, … Continue reading
avoid talking head syndrome
Brilliant Disguise. Talking head syndrome that grim reaps the shadows and obscurity that misting ancient time has gathered as blanket to the covering light.
least of burden: virtual complaints
Black Friday. Property is such a drag. Virtual wealth. Oscar Wilde ( 1891) Condescending Champagne Socialism in a rant that is more about Oscar than any political ideology. Some virtue to what he says ( but like Voltaire can see … Continue reading
don’t leave home without it
Those Madame Pickwick Gift Certificates. Don’t leave home without them and show the finger to make your point. The ideal gift for people in need but lacking desire, ambition and suffering from sense of confused want and in search of … Continue reading
getting cozy with Ole’ Man Time
“If you knew Time as well as I do,” said the Hatter, “you wouldn’t talk about wasting it. It’s him.” “I don’t know what you mean,” said Alice. “Of course you don’t!’ the Hatter said, tossing his head contemptuously. ÔI … Continue reading
kafka: a gate made only for you
Visions that contained all the dark terrors that haunt today’s world. The interplay of shapes and shadows of the modern world in a dance with the emptiness of nihilism, the spirit of old ghettos and of vast , unapproachable and … Continue reading
hot tempered high C
The divas of grand opera. Maria Callas may have been the best known of a large contingent, but who was the most tempestuous of all? And where would opera be without coloraturas who erupt? No matter what the diva, the … Continue reading
tempestuous diva
Who was the most tempestuous diva of all? And where would grand opera be without coloraturas who erupt? … “Maria Callas Booted From the Met” ran a headline in New York in 1958. The tempestuous prima donna from Brooklyn had … Continue reading
round table: plays about war dances
The high spirits of the 1920’s. A circle of young, exuberant wits, Robert Sherwood among them, regaled Dry-Era America from around a hotel table. Nothing quite like them has been seen since… Naturally, in such a world, Robert Sherwood was … Continue reading
algonquin: table of notables
Bigger than life in a larger than life America of the roaring twenties. They were the high spirits of those times. A circle of young exuberant wits regaled Dry-Era America from around a hotel table at the Algonquin in New … Continue reading
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