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100 red carpets for the sun
Seeing Irving Layton in action was poetry as performance art. The phycicality, the gesticulation, the booming delivery, the sublimation, the modulation. A spectacle vascillating between erotic vulgarity, a sort of testosterone based infantilism, yet enigmatically mixed with the redemptive promise … Continue reading
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Tagged a.m. klein, Albert Camus, Beckett, canadian poetry, George Woodcock, Irving Layton, Irving Layton 100th anniversary, jack mcclelland, Jean Genet, Kafka, Leonard Cohen, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Mordechai Richler, Samuel Beckett, Sartre, T.S. Eliot
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a king a crown and a pyramid of sacred geometry
The first King of Britain was James I. He won the prize that had eluded his mother, Mary Queen of Scots: the right to rule over a united kingdom. Unfortunately he earned himself a very bad press.But press, for better … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne of Denmark, brew dog, Christopher Hitchens, Guy Debord, James I of England, Kafka, Kurt Vonnegut, Paul van Somer, royal virility performance beer, Royal Wedding, XTC Andy Partridge
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ROCK THEIR GYPSY SOUL
Wordsworth called the Gypsies “wild outcasts of society.” In the folklore of he nineteenth and twentieth centuries, they appear mainly in the guise of dark-haired, mysterious fortunetellers and colorfully dressed violinists, ready to break into song at the drop of … Continue reading
PULLING THE BEARD OF THE KING
“I would say that our patients never really despair because of any suffering in itself! Instead, their despair stems in each instance from a doubt as to whether suffering is meaningful. Man is ready and willing to shoulder any suffering … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert S. Gerard, Allen Ginsberg, Anton Boisen, Ben Heppner, Charles Baudelaire, Dostoevsky, Erich Heller, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Maciunas, Goethe, Hegel, Isaac Luria, Jack Kerouac, Jacob Burckhardt, Jacques Lacan, Jake Heggie, James Gillray, James Joyce, John Lennon, Kafka, Karl Marx, Martin Wasserman, Michael Garfield, Michel Foucault, Peter Orlovsky, Renana Elran, Robbe-Grillet, Rudolf Otto, Sanford L. Drob, Shakespeare, Steve Smith, The Grateful Dead, The Last Poets, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Viktor Frankl, Vladimir Nabokov, Yoko Ono
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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
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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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CHRISTMAS: IT'S IN THE MIND'S EYE
Christmas. Undoubtedly the holiday with the greatest inclination to bring out the fruitcake in all of us. Is Christmas really any worse than other times of the year and do the Christmas blues really exist? Carl Jung differentiated himself from … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Einstein, Beccafumi, Carl Jung, Chris Brooke, Daily Mail, Dave Thomson, Fellini, Frederico Fellini, Freud, Hieronymous Bosch, Jung, Kafka, Mark Chironna, Mark Twain, Michael Billig, New Statesman, Oliver James, Peter Paul Rubens, R.D. Laing, Rev. Tim Jones, Rubens, Samuel Clemens, Sigmund Freud, The Band, The Nutcracker Suite, The Nutcraker Ballet, Tim Burton, Tim Jones
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ALL SINGETH OF DISPIRITING THE HUMBUGS
Bah! to the humbugs and the skeptics. To Santa, it is all about the voyage and not the destination. To the mere mortals,on a diet of hope and determination, its about reclaiming a piece of Paradise lost. A battle between … Continue reading
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Tagged A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, Christmas on Mars, Christopher Hitchens, David rakoff, David Sedaris, Dwayne Coyne, Franz Kafka, James Panero, Kafka, Madame Pickwick, Max Beerbohm, Scrooge, Sigmund Freud
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