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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
lobal society: southbound
At a bedrock level, it is not known exactly why.But through the tools of observation and occasional research what is known is that the extremes tend to be present, the actions are cryptic and its all wrapped in an elliptic … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Benjamin Franklin left handed, Benjamin Netanyahu left-handed, Dr. Manjiri Prabhu, Dr. Norman Geschwind, Hy Peskin photography, Jeremy Brett, Left-handed dyslexia, left-handedness research, Leonardo Da Vinci, Lewis Caroll Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll, Lewis Carroll left handed, Mahmoud Abbas left-handed, Sam Wang left-handed researcher, Sam Wang PHD, Whitey Ford
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dodo: the perilous way of comfort
There are people who put the dodo in a fabulous category, with unicorns, dragons, griffins, and centaurs, and people are generally amazed that the dodo actually existed. The dodo lived. The dodo lived on the island of Mauritius in the … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alice in Wonderland Dodo Bird, Captain West-Zanen, Chambers Dictionary of Etymology, Cornelis Matelief de Jonge, David Quammen, Francois Leguat, H.E. Strickland, Jan Goeimare, Lewis Carroll, Madame Pickwick, Natural History Museum London, Oxford Ashmolean Museum, Roelandt Savery, The Dodo Bird, Thomas Herbert, Willem van Westsanen
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Accidental art: relationships with the dice
It was a time of accidental art. Where artists let sheer happenstance paint their pictures or a throw of the dice shape their music; a deliberate effort it seemed, to avoid making decisions. An art of escape and procrastination. … … Continue reading
footprints in the desert sand: eternal dust
A divine foundation for nature. Even human nature. The whole thing would probably be unintelligible to alien beings and the cold reason of modern rationalism, scientific inquiry that tends to fudge the facts, cannot really explain it. So, there must … Continue reading
attention mister trouble
….Maybe its just the funny animal humor that never seems to die; the idealization of the animal world into the realm of human properties. Like LOL cats. Or in this case, the colorful art and brisk pacing that defined the … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged chaplin silent films, fritz the cat, great american songbook, Irving Berlin, izzy klein, izzy klein mighty mouse, jerome kern, john grierson, Lewis Carroll, LOL Cats, mighty mouse, nedor publishing, paul terry, Ralph Bakshi, rogers and hart, Schoenberg, Sergei Eisenstein, terrytoons paul terry, walt disney studios, walter trier
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tea and the polite amusements
To dip or to pour. that is the question…. The Tea Party felt it was better to pour tea into the waters around the Boston wharf. Maybe if they had poured water into the barrels of tea history would have … Continue reading
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Tagged aleksei naumov, Christopher Hitchens, henry saville, John Lennon, john lennon tea, jonas hanway, Lewis Carroll, mary cassatt, richard collins artist, William Makepiece Thackeray, Yoko Ono
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dada chess: logic vs. transcendence
Lenin’s chance meeting with dadaist Tristan Tzara in 1916 was ostensibly arranged to play chess. Was there something in Dada that piqued the revolutionary passions? Or was it a case of a parallax gap; two points between which no connection, … Continue reading
Orwell: cracked mirrors and memory holes
The mental disease of imagination…Twenty-seven years after the fateful year of 1984, we are still fascinated by George Orwell’s dystopic vision of rationalism gone mad, stark raving mad. There is always the temptation to measure how cold we are willing … Continue reading
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