Trump? Wall? In the 1950s?
Originally posted on The Lester & Charlie Review: When will history learn that we repeat ourselves? Watch a clip of this 1950s television Western, where a man named Trump comes to town and promises...
View ArticleArticle 50 explained in Post-it notes
Originally posted on Middlesex Minds: The government today lost its Supreme Court appeal and an Act of Parliament will now be required to trigger the infamous Article 50. But just what is Article 50?...
View ArticleMy Thank You Note to President Trump
Originally posted on Interrupting the Silence: Mr. President, I did not vote for you and I never thought I would be saying this but I owe you a debt of gratitude. Less than a week into your presidency...
View ArticleTGIF Quote!
Originally posted on makesandcastlesnotwar: Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being...
View Article100 Performances Oscars Forgot – 1/20
Originally posted on Write out of L.A.: RE-POST – Originally Published September 2015. As we get sucked into the awards season vacuum again, I grabbed hold of a few of my like-minded film-freaks...
View ArticleRETURN OF THE FLY (1959) ON THE TEXAS 27 FILM VAULT
Originally posted on Balladeer's Blog: *** FEATURING A MAJOR MILESTONE IN THE SHOW’S HISTORY *** Morning Breath BEFORE MST3K THERE WAS … THE TEXAS 27 FILM VAULT! In the mid-1980s The Texas 27 Film...
View ArticleThings to know
Originally posted on Shastriya Raga: Sangeeta is defined as ‘Samyak Geetam sangeetam‘ – a melodious tone and is mostly practiced in southern parts of India. It’s known that practicing music improvises...
View ArticleSunny Afternoon in Florence: The Painter Who Never Runs out of Colours
Originally posted on Letters From The Clouds: Walking down the ancient streets of Florence I once met a painter. He only had one arm, with his long mustaches and his brown beret looked like he had come...
View ArticleAuthor Eric Hoffer discusses the pain of writing
Originally posted on Creative thinking and the creative process: By Dennis Mellersh The creative thinking process, when applied to the craft or art of writing original material can be painful and...
View ArticleA life worth reading
Originally posted on LovelyNow: For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It’s not the most social pastime. …
View ArticleJesse Winchester Remembered … The Songwriters’ Songwriter
Originally posted on The Immortal Jukebox: Sometimes I’m asked because of my eclectic tastes if there is one under appreciated, lesser known artist who deserves to be much better known. i always answer...
View ArticlePoulenc Couldn’t Believe What Ravel Said about Saint-Saëns
Originally posted on Kile Smith | composer: Camille Saint-Saëns On Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday 5–6 pm on WRTI-FM… One hundred years ago, 18-year-old Francis Poulenc was looking...
View ArticleThree Poems About Marriage
Originally posted on literary lew: The following poem beautifully and, kind of darkly, describes the duress that marriage presents to two people who have opted to engage in the process of becoming,...
View ArticleWorld Press Fredom Day
Originally posted on Brussels Diplomatic: World Press Freedom Day is marked every year on 3 May, but there is little reason to celebrate as journalists continue to be repressed and persecuted all over...
View ArticleWhat elephants teach us about cancer prevention
Originally posted on Science Chronicle: Elephants express many extra genes derived from the critical tumour suppressor gene TP53. – Photo: Stephen Tan/Flickr Joshua Schiffman, University of Utah and...
View ArticleOn the Darkest Hours: When you Think of Giving Up Writing
Originally posted on Dar Writes: Writing…or not… On the Darkest Hours: When You Think of Giving Up Writing ? The writer lows suck. Based on my experience and research, all writers get them – the dark...
View ArticleThere
There’s an old saying that a picture is worth 1,000 words. Where the story behind the photo is memorable, valuable and has substance. There’s story behind this photo that I didn’t put into...
View ArticleMy beautiful spirit name
Originally posted on RELAX, IT ALL WORKS OUT: Wachiwi, dancing girl Many spirit names, especially Native American, are lovely poetic word pictures. Hiawassee means meadow; Suwanee, echo; Hehewuti,...
View ArticleThe Cost of a “Free” and Appropriate Education
Originally posted on A Pocketful of Motherhood...The Blog: Back in 1973, under section 504 of the Individuals with Disabilities Act, a new world was formed for students with all types of disabilities....
View ArticleWhy I Stopped Blogging
I’m sorry to all you subscribers for disappearing so quickly. Something happened that took up a great deal of my attention. My dear wife was diagnosed with dementia, and I instinctively chose to...
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