Tag Archives: Damon Runyan

fight for your right to scream

Maybe sometimes its good to scream. there is a slice of silence that listens. that treats and attracts, that begs curiosity. It might not answer immediately, but there is listening… you wanna pick a fight? drop the gloves and go … Continue reading

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citizen’s arrest

Monday is apparently make a citizen’s arrest day. That is, when a crime is committed and no police officer is in the area, there is both right and responsibility to make an arrest. If we avoided all the major crimes … Continue reading

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fat chance: rooting for the longshot

Its the opposite of investment. Its the quick fix. The bottomless pit of desire that cannot be sated. The Janus face of capitalism, money and banking. Is the true aim of the gambler narcissistic and aggressive desires for attaining the … Continue reading

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coney island guys and dolls

Lost innocence. A necessary illusion that marks the end of one episode and the beginning in a new journey known as American exceptionalism …once described as “Sodom by the sea.” Coney Island was a sanctioned escape from—and alternative to—everyday reality. … Continue reading

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eden postponed

Maybe Shiva knows? Its a struggle with modernity and some of its paradoxes hint at some great truths. Beginning in the 1960’s the hippies began traveling to India, on the quest of a sort of Thomas More utopia: a search … Continue reading

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“fulsome” press room blues

The problem is that there are always multiple ways to render a true account. And is lying always wrong. No doubt, lying is a complex issue, but the truth is equally foggy and ambiguous. So as News Corp brought their … Continue reading

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THE DAMP HAND OF MELANCHOLY

Restaurant Utopia. Five miles high , then, when you come to the fork in the road, take it.  The sign on the door stated ” Different Cultural Levels Eat Here”. On entering the host delivers a fortune cookie, in which … Continue reading

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Scratch and Sniff Museum

The allure  of the Metropolitan Museum of Art rests mainly  in the rivalries, the machinations, the sexual intrigues of many of the men of fortune, and power and bloodline. It’s in the intestinal workings of an autocratic circle of trustees … Continue reading

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