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Category Archives: USA
art too bad to be ignored
Over the years I have visited hundreds of art museums. Most of those institutions made sincere efforts to curate collections of quality art works. Sometimes there were fails and truly bad art was exhibited. But nothing compares to the extraordinary … Continue reading
Black History Month
Here in the former Colonies there has been an alarming campaign by reactionary racist groups to suppress the study of American History in general and the study of the oppression of Black Americans and slavery in particular. This is not … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Film, History, USA
Tagged Boston, Florida, Massachusetts, Slavery, U.S. history
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A House upon the Height
Closed since 2019, the Emily Dickinson Museum has now completed a multi-year preservation effort at The Evergreens, aimed at improving environmental conditions for objects in its recently documented collection, and reducing energy consumption. Reopening on March 1, The Evergreens is an integral … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Books, History, Museums, USA, Writing
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Endless Winter
“What am I doing here in this endless winter” Franz Kafka, Diaries The chilling, but gorgeous video below is Jamie Scott’s third seasonal time-lapse film and the second collaboration with composer Jim Perkins. It is the culmination of 5 years … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Film, Photography, USA
Tagged Montreal, New York, Time-lapse photography
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Fly Beatles Air
Today marks the 60-year anniversary of that epic airport arrival. On Feb. 7, 1964, flight 101 from London Heathrow lands at New York’s Kennedy Airport, triggering the launch of “Beatlemania”. New York City will be celebrating the British invasion at … Continue reading
Posted in Air Travel, Art, History, Music, Tourism, USA
Tagged New York City, poster art, The Beatles, TWA
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American Fiction
I have been looking forward to the release of the Oscar-nominated film American Fiction. Based on the Percival Everett novel Erasure it stars the great American actor Jeffrey Wright. One scene from the movie was filmed in the Boston bookstore Brookline Booksmith and the shop staff … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookstore Tourism, Film, movies, USA, Writing
Tagged Boston, Percival Everett
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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
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
it had been overrun by religious stupefiers, mountebanks, charlatans, obfuscators, and other dedicated misleaders,
“When young and full of fellow feeling, Professor Joseph Skizzen had been tormented by the thought that the human race (which he naïvely believed was made up of great composers, a few harmlessly lecherous painters, maybe a mathematician or a … Continue reading
Oh, horror upon horror!
Few writers have the ability to evoke a sense of horror and dread more effectively than Edgar Allan Poe, born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts. Poe’s parents were actors. Their bright but unstable son grew up to be … Continue reading
Posted in Books, History, Museums, USA, Writing
Tagged Edgar Allan Poe, horror, Mystery
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