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ghost dance: shaman on the plains
Millennial cults. America has always been ready in times of stress to look for prophets, especially those not immune to the temptations of an earthly paradise. Whether from Handsome Lake, the Maharishi Yoga, or the many Teachers of Righteousness of … Continue reading
cargo cults and ghost dance
In times of stress keep a wary eye on the prophets of an earthly paradise: Handsome Lake, Mohammed, Lenin types, or various Teachers of Righteousness. America is always ready for any millennial cult… A millenarian movement that was completely different- … Continue reading
expression of the soul
… Rock and roll “is the most brutal, ugly, desperate vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear. Rock n’ roll smells phony and false. It is sung, played and written for the most part by cretinous … Continue reading
the garrison
“Must be something in the water.” (Robbie Robertson ) Very potent water indeed. It was the politics of the mystic. One taken in with the idea of a New Jerusalem. This concept of the “City on a Hill” which originally … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged audrey mclaughlin, Book of Revelation, daniel francis author, ed broadbent, fred herzog photography, George Woodcock, John Lennon, Margaret Atwood, new jerusalem, Northrop Frye, Robbie Robertson, Ronald Reagan, simon de jong, Stephen Harper, tommy douglas, william notman, Yoko Ono
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the w.s. walcott election show
Get involved. Donate now. Are you in? Want to buy some cool looking swag? A bobble head doll of our glorious leader? Is their clairvoyancy in politics? Should we care? As the Canadian election yawns into the back nine with … Continue reading
THE LAST POTLACH
…In some cases, the indigenous people were the commissioners of the photos; in others, they were props for a romanticized version of themselves sold to an audience nearly rabid for “exotic Indian” imagery.The Likeness House was, to the First Peoples … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alfred Stieglitz, Benjamin A. Haldane, Dan L. Monroe, Dan Savard, Dave Obee, Edward Curtis, Edward Curtis American Indian, Edward Curtis photography, Edward Steichen, George Horse Capture, Heather Reid, Images from the Likeness House, John Lutz, Robbie Robertson
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SUGAR FROSTED AMAZON : You Deserve a Break Today…
… so get up and get away….”For the month of July, Nestlé Brasil has unleashed a floating supermarket barge on the tributaries that thread deep into the Amazon region in an attempt to reach some 800,000 Brazilians living in isolated, … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Alfred Russel Wallace, Allen L. Hammond, Charles Darwin, Charles Waterton, Charles Waterton amazon, Henry Walter Bates, Ivan Zurita, Julia Belluz, Michele Simon, Richard Spruce, Robbie Robertson, Roberto Cavalli Design
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JOY OF COOKING
” give me a thousand acres of tractable land & all the gang members that exist & you’ll see the authentic alternative lifestyle, the agrarian one”. ( Bob Dylan, liner notes, World Gone Wrong ) Food for thought. Second helpings, … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Miscellaneous
Tagged Aaron Woolf, Allen Ginsberg, Aztec Corn, Bob Dylan, Charles Patterson, Curt Ellis, Eric Shlosser, Food Inc., Henry Ford, Ian Chaney, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Kafka, King Corn, Marie Monique Robin, Michael Moore, Michael Pollan, Monsanto, Paul Mangelsdorf, Quakerism, Quakers, Robbie Robertson, Robert Kenner, The World According to Monsanto, Theodor Adorno
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