A Week of Thursdays: Day 3

Eleni Mandell | Miracle of Five 01 Somebody Else 02 Wings In His Eyes 03 Make-Out King The One AM Radio | This Too Will Pass 01 You Can Still Run 02 A Brittle Filament 03 Mercury

Kurt Vonnegut 1922 – 2007

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae. Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing [...]

Protected: A Week of Thursdays: Day 2

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Protected: A Week of Thursdays: Day 1

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Don’t Miss the Documentary Portion

Sara and I watched “The Children of Men” Sunday night. We needed an escape, which this film was not entirely successful at providing. But it was a good film, based on the PD James, Huxley-esque story. However, the documentary included on the DVD called “The Possibility of Hope”, was VERY good. I encourage anyone who [...]

Quotation Monday: Barber

How awful that the artist has become nothing but the after-dinner mint of society. ~ Samuel Barber

Three (or more) Most Important Books

I mentioned in the Potter post that I couldn’t remember where I “picked up” the beliefs similar to “Nonviolent Communication” concepts that Peters and Amanda champion but now I realize that they came from a book I read over ten years ago called The Moral Animal, by Robert Wright (suggested to me by Liz). Wright [...]

YouTube Friday: Hometown Baghdad

“Forbidden Salad” is episode 3 of 45 in the online series, Hometown Baghdad. You can see other episodes at the Hometown Baghdad site.

Depression: or How We Learned to Stop Having Fun.

I read a fascinating article in the Guardian Books section a few days ago and have been trying to find time to share it with you. This is an excerpt from Barbara Ehrenreich’s new book, Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy. I have posted only the skeleton of her thesis. Read the [...]

Herein Lies the Problem…

“The U.S. has about 50 percent of the world’s wealth and about 6.3 percent of its population. In this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity [...]