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Monthly Archives: January 2024
Counterfeit
A Counterfeit — a Plated Person —I would not be —Whatever strata of IniquityMy Nature underlie —Truth is good Health — and Safety, and the Sky.How meagre, what an Exile — is a Lie,And Vocal — when we die — … Continue reading
Listen to the forest
Tree.fm allows you to listen to random forests around the world. This is so chill. Give it a try. Remember Forests? People around the world recorded the sounds of their forests, so you can escape into nature, and unwind wherever you … Continue reading
Best Tourism Villages
The United Nations has gotten some well deserved bad press lately for egregious behavior by some UN agencies, but there remain many UN organizations doing good work. Best Tourism Villages from UN Tourism is an agency that promotes villages around … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Asia, Europe, South America, Tourism
Tagged Mexico, Switzerland, Tourism, United Nations
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A Slice of Life
For decades there was one thing that all New Yorkers could rally around: the dollar slice of pizza. It has been a given that one could depend on a tasty and inexpensive slice of New York-style pizza in all five … Continue reading
Read a little poetry
I can trace my love of poetry back to my 7th grade English teacher. For reasons lost to the fog of time, one day Natalie Fine handed me a book of poems by Langston Hughes and simply said, “I think … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Writing
Tagged Charles Bukowski, Langston Hughes, Manila, Poetry, Poets
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Paris with Eugène Atget
While searching for early Paris photographs for a project, I ran across the marvelous video below. The short film pairs the images by the pioneering street photographer Eugène Atget with the music of Wim Mertens. NB: If the video fails … Continue reading
Time Travel Philosophy
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Posted in Animation, Art, Books
Tagged Arthur Schopenhauer, Emmanuel Levinas, Friedrich Nietzsche
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Airport Lost and Found
Have you ever experienced that sinking feeling when your luggage failed to appear on the airport carousel ? Or have you ever reached your destination and realized that you left your headphones or other valuables in the airline seat pocket … Continue reading
Darkness Visible
I recently read Nick Harkaway’s exciting novel Titanium Noir. The blurb above is a better recommendation for the book than any review that I could ever post. If you haven’t read Harkaway, it’s not a bad place to start. After reading the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Film, movies, Writing
Tagged Film Noir, genre fiction, Michael Chabon, Nick Harkaway
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It was a bright cold day in April, so sweaters were necessary
Every knitter and Orwell fan that you know will want this free download: a knitting pattern for a sweater depicting the cover of the iconic Penguin Classics version of George Orwell’s 1984. “The pattern includes extra alphabet charts so that … Continue reading