Tag Archives: Christopher Hitchens

temple mount: opening heaven’s gates

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Dave

The resurrection of the dead and the burial of the living? The most contested piece of real estate in the work. The Mount of Olives, The Temple Mount ( or the Dome of the Rock, third most important shrine in … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Bill Maher, Bob Schieffer, Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens Judaism, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, The Dome of the Rock, The Mount of Olives cemetery, The Temple Mount Jerusalem, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

divine claims from the secular spirits

Posted on March 25, 2012 by Dave

Guides for the perplexed? The narcissism of small differences? Christopher Hitchens did write a book called Be Prepared for the Worst. So, even in an atheist like Hitchens there is a little ping somewhere. There is a famous quote by … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Chaim Soutine, chaim weizmann, Christopher Hitchens, Clement Greenberg, e.p. sanders, isaac deutscher, Jackson Pollock, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marc Chagall, Martin Buber, mother teresa, Pablo Picasso, rabbi pinchas scheinberg, Rosa Luxemburg | Leave a comment

what the meek shall inherit….

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Dave

To be determined at a later date. Yelp has gone public, and good for them that they have made so much money on the offering. However, this company won’t even be around in ten years. The tech highway is littered … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Abbie Hoffman, Christopher Hitchens, Frank Zappa, google offer to buy Yelp, Jeremy Stoppelman, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, mahatma gandhi, Rick Griffin, Robert Heilbroner, Yelp public offering | Leave a comment

angels and demons not included

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Dave

Ingmar Bergman’s religious views, his particular spiritual ideology have always held interest because unlike a Dawkins or a Hitchens, there is always nuance and ambiguity to Bergman’s views, always a few hidden back door and small windows with cracks in … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged agnosticism, Atheism, August Strindberg, bibi anderson, Carl Jung, Christopher Hitchens, igmar bergman through a glass darkly, Ingmar Bergman, ingmar bergman the rite, Liv Ullmann, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog | Leave a comment

this poor man cries out but who is listening

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Dave

The God game. The politics of God. Santorum hs the potential to be a dangerous demagogue, but the left critique with its mixing of theology, religion and class economics is almost as nausea inducing by positioning the voice of god … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged abel meeropol, Billie Holiday, Billie Holiday Strange Fruit, Chris Hedges, Christopher Hitchens, cornel west, Erich Fromm, James Cone, james h. cone, Larry Rivers, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Martin Buber, Paul Tillich, Richard Dawkins, Rick Salutin, rick santorum, robert wyatt, robert wyatt strange fruit, Sam Harris | Leave a comment

first amendment: 2 Live Comics

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Dave

Jesse Marinoff Reyes: 2 Live Crew Comics June 1991 issue, #1 (one shot) Illustration: Stan Shaw (b. 1962) Design: Dale Yarger (1950-2012) Another design in our ongoing tribute to my friend, Dale Yarger. Part one of two, the cover: When … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged 2 Live Crew, american family association AFA, bob fingerman, bob martinez florida governor, Christopher Hitchens, dale yarger, danny hellman, dave marsh, david hobbs, eros comics, eros comix, fantagraphics, harris comics, jesse marinoff reyes, jim blanchard, Luther Campbell 2 Live Crew, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Parents music resource center PMRC, pat moriarity, peter kuper, Public Enemy rap, stan shaw, stan shaw illustration, tipper gore PMRC | Leave a comment

purim: doing a deep fry on the “juden fressers”

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Dave

They lived to fight and argue another day. Purim based on the Biblical Book of Esther. That is, there is a hidden hand of god, who acts in a matter of revealed while being hidden; hidden in everything that happens. … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Arthur Koestler, Arthur Szyk, Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens Judaism, elliott horowitz, maadame pickwick art supplies, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Philip Zimbardo, Philip Zimbardo Stanford Experiment, Purim festival, Ry Cooder, Sigmund Freud, valentin de Boulogne | Leave a comment

save the mountain for them

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Dave

The origins of anti-Catholicism are lurking at the depths of American consciousness, gnawing away like a conspiracy theory and feeding a sense of paranoia and tribal urges that have little basis in fact, but are convenient valves of release when … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Christopher Hitchens, Howard Zinn, James Cone, James Gillray, Marcel Duchamp, Navarro Valls, Rick Salutin, rick santorum, sam cooke, Slavoj Zizek, Stanley Crouch, Thomas Nast, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

lets drink to that

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Dave

The narcissism of small differences. When religion meets politics the poetics of demagoguery can launch a thousand careers. Anti-Catholic sentiment in the New World was an almost original sin of the founding settlers. All that was missing was a blood … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged alfred e. smith presidential candidate 1928, Christopher Hitchens, daniel okrent, david goldfield, Graham Greene, Howard Zinn, James Gillray, ken burns prohibition, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, michael sheldon, Prohibition period, rory gallagher, Thomas Nast, Voltaire | Leave a comment

peace in happy valley: the reasonable citizens

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Dave

Too late for the two state solution? Part of an interview with Sari Nusseibeh in Der Spiegel, one which undercuts the B.S. and boilerplate rhetoric that constitutes our daily bread. The proposed confederation is not new, is a kind of … Continue reading →