“If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird…
Sports only matter because they don’t. And because they don’t – are forms of play meant, most importantly, to be…
Douglass grasps the prophet and artist’s secret that we all live by stories, and the martyred heroes’ tales he recounts in this book are sorely needed in this darkest of times when the death of our planet is at stake and the spiritual sustenance to prevent it is desperately needed.
I offer all my work that appears here for free, so if you think it worthy, I hope you would…
Trump is the culmination of a long developing horror story. Unlike his predecessors who prepared the way for him and who generally wore traditionally allaying masks to hide their evil actions, he is the greatest blatant fraud to ever occupy the White House.
“Art is magic liberated from the lie of being truth.” – Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia It is hard to keep…
I wrote this essay about Kris Kristofferson on September 21, 2024 a week before he died on September 28, 2024. In the intervening week, I was surprised to receive a message from one of his children who had read my tribute and was showing it to Kris whom I was told would appreciate it. His death deeply saddened me, but I was also glad that I wrote it when I did and that Kris may have found comfort in knowing that someone was listening and knows “he beat the devil” as he “fed the hunger in his soul.
There is no doubt we are moving deeper into a dark period in U.S. American history, one that may make the 1950s look tame. A new/old strategy of tension is underway, pitting people against each other while the 1%, the killers, and the warmongers roll on and over ordinary people as they crack down on civil liberties, dissent, and everything a free people hold sacred.
“You may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you’re looking for” – Billy…
Words have a power to enchant and mesmerize. Linguistic mind-control – language as sorcery – especially when linked to traumatic events such as the September 11th and anthrax attacks, can strike people dumb and blind.