Labor Day, Burning Man, Laughter and Tears
I haven’t done one of these in a while, so there’s a lot of (good) stuff here. POETRYProfessor Louis’s brilliant poem for Labor Day. Labor Day weekend is...
LISTEN UP
Take some minutes of your time and listen to the lovely, amazing, diverse, fun music of René Aubry. You will be much rewarded. Links . . . The Shell Amnesie...
Watch It.
HUMAN The movie (Director's cut version) 3hours 11 minutes “Spanning dozens and dozens of countries and languages, Yann Arthus-Bertrand's Human is a mission...
Z is for . . .
Zohran Mamdani Let’s get The Haters out of the way. Here are a few Supportive New Yorkers. Remington Write on Zohran Mamdani scaring the Rich Let's Scare The...
Dusty
In 2013 I discoverd this wonderful rant by Dusty. I Do Not Support The Troops (2013) — 6 minutes 44 seconds How refreshing to have the thoughts I’d had since...
The Predicament (22 Years Ago)
In 2003 I was involved in a small independent film project called “The Predicament”. Filmed on location in Burlington, Vermont — it was directed by Todd La...
120+ Years Ago
Market Street, San Francisco — 1905-1906 Music:Spiegel Im Spiegel (Mirror In The Mirror) by Arvo PärtComposed 1978 — 47 years ago AleXander
If I Still Did This Newsletter . . .
I’d be sharing these amazing things that came across my desk recently . . . Why we can't focus.Philosophy for the modern world. Take heed. Don't Buy Stuff...
Exiting April, the Cruelest Month.
This is the last day of April. This is the last newsletter. • lots of good stuff, so save it for future revisits • The phrase "April is the cruelest month"...
One Of A Kind (Like You)
A Look In My Existential Mirror (with a Telescope and a Microscope)Are you up for looking into yours? Then join me in my latest piece — published in Counter...
(Anomalous) Paperback Writers (plus)
Click on the image below to read about these two new books(or even order ‘em) . . . “Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book?It took me years to write, will...
Read (All About It)
Paperback now available through Barnes & Noble online. Withdrawing Fables From The Memory Bank. . . and other New York City Reveries.• • •Click on book image...
Another Spring
SPRING! “Spring is the time of plans and projects.”― Leo Tolstoy In November of 2021 I wrote a piece about hoping to live to be 80 — to experience the joy of...
Voices of Joy and Truth
A Saturday morning at my computer — head full of ideas that are driving me insane — spinning a digital image. It’ ain’t no Guernica, but . . . “The War...
Spots Of Color Amidst The Grey
“Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds...
Musician Speaks Truth To Power
A most direct, truth-filled, heart-felt, 12 minute declaration of what this war has been about — the machinations that provoked it, the false justifications...
Music Hath Charms (In Times Of Empire Collapse)
“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not’?” – George Bernard Shaw “Swine Grabbing All The Pearls” digital...
Lynch For Lunch, and other Delicacies
“Gotta get through January / Gotta get through February” – Van Morrison My piece about David Lynch just published in Counter Arts on Medium. Click to read...
Intense Ominous Whooshing
Gotta get through January / Gotta get through February” – Van Morrison My new piece/poem just published on Medium. Rev up your attention span — and check...
Forever Young, Getting Old, & Eye/Brain Candy
The most beautiful words in the English language are not, “I love you.” They're “It's benign.”—Woody AllenAfter weeks of concern and a biopsy the day before...