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faith, facts, fantasy and finance
Spirituality, aesthetics and the profit motive. America from the time of Herman Melville and “The Confidence Man” does not appear to have altered significantly. Or has it?…. Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com): Yesterday, a couple of ‘godders’ came to my door … Continue reading
Dix & threepenny opera: an explicit body politic
The classic Bertolt Brecht question was an examination of the inconceivable; two forces in which it was not possible to reconcile: how can people be dignified and ethical under capitalism? The stock market as a Three-Penny Opera. The petty thieving, … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Bertolt Brecht, David Hare, Edwin Black, Fassbinder, Francis Galton, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Jack Morgan, James Watson, John Carney, Kurt Weill, Lloyd Blankfein, Lloyd Blankfein Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Craig Blankfein, Matt Taibbi, Michel Foucault, Otto Dix, Pecora Commission, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Randy Newman, T.S. Eliot, Toulouse-Lautrec
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FEAR OF A BLACK PLANET: Sail Away to Victimhood
Huckleberry Finn as everyman. Chronic suffering of brain cramps, broken by occasional lapses of sanity. The decision by a publishing house, NewSouth Books, from Alabama, to exchange the nigger word in Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn”, , for “slave” , or … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Alex Thomas, Allan Ginsberg, Allen Ginsberg, Andrew Motion, D.H. Lawrence, Eminen, Francoise Duresse, Graeme Dalling, Howard Jacobson, Huckleberry Finn, James Baldwin, Joe Speare, John Mullan Guardian, John Steinbeck, Kara Walker, Mark Twain, Michael Franti, Nathaniel Turner, Nicholas Lezard, Nicholas Lezard Guardian, Randy Newman, Richard Wright, Samuel Clemens, Shaquille O'Neal, The Finkler Question
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REPEAT OFFENDERS: River of Doubt From a Vanishing World
It’s a jungle out there Disorder and confusion everywhere No one seems to care Well I do Hey, who’s in charge here? It’s a jungle out there Poison in the very air we breathe Do you know what’s in the … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Adam Gabbatt Guardian, Adrian Cowell, Aimé Bonpland, Alexander von Humboldt, Alfred Meyer, Alfred Russel Wallace, Candice Millard, Charles Darwin, Claudio Villas Boas, Ed Stafford, Ed Stafford Amazon, Henry Walter Bates, Janet Maslin, Jason Wilson, Jeremy Wade, Jeremy Wade River Monsters, John George Wood, John Hathaway Winslow, Jonathan Maslow, Martin Goodman, Piers Gibbon, Randy Newman, Richard Spruce, Richard Spruce English botanist, Stephen Jay Gould, W.H. Edwards, Wally Richards, Walter Dubois Richards, Will Crampton, William McGovern
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PLEDGING FAITH AS COLLATERAL: Sloth & the Imp
“This new millennium already marked by killings is merely a sign of what Conrad called our miserable ingenuity. How we love to create Devils and Gods and bloody rivers of ways to get their almighty attention. What we turn away … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous
Tagged Brendan Gill, Cardinal Egan, Christopher Hitchens, Conrad Black, Father Gabriele Amorth, Frans Huys, Goethe, Hieronymous Bosch, Jacques Derrida, Jimmy Breslin, Jimmy Breslin The Church That Forgot Christ, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Joseph Conrad, Kelly Cogswell, Neil Reynolds, Pope Benedict XVI, Randy Newman, Rossano Gospels, Stanley Milgram, Syriac Bible of Paris, Watering of the Girls Hungary
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