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  • Iris

    blue flag irises looking just like their images in the water kakitsubata / nitari ya nitari / mizu no kage —matsuo bashō Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether. Related articles Blake and Bashō (keithwaynebrown.com) Carpe Diem:… Continue reading

    Iris

  • Opening up films

    The opening scene of Orson Welles‘ Touch of Evil. The opening scene of Roman Polanski‘s The Tenant. The opening scene to Harvey Fierstein‘s Torch Song Trilogy. The opening scene to Robert Altman‘s The Player.  The opening scene to Marry Harron’s American Psycho. Related… Continue reading

    Opening up films

  • Article: Why have young people in Japan stopped having sex?

    Fascinating http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/young-people-japan-stopped-having-sex Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether. Continue reading

  • Birth of conservative delusion: Roger Ailes takes his revenge – Salon.com

    Under Reagan, Republican appointees on the FCC abolished the fairness doctrine, the  obligation for broadcasters to air both sides of controversial issues. This led to an explosion of opinionated propagandists on the air waves relentlessly attacking “liberal” media. It continues… Continue reading

  • The Ghost of Authoritarianism in the Age of the Shutdown

    …The American political, cultural, and economic landscape is inhabited by the renewed return of authoritarianism evident in the ideologies of religious and secular certainty that legitimate the reign of economic Darwinism, the unchecked power of capital, the culture of fear… Continue reading

    The Ghost of Authoritarianism in the Age of the Shutdown

  • ▶ Science and Islam, Jim Al-Khalili – BBC Documentary – YouTube

    Science and Islam is a three-part BBC documentary about the history of science in medieval Islamic civilization presented by Jim Al-Khalili. The series is accompanied by the book Science and Islam: A History written by Ehsan Masood. Episodes: Part 1:… Continue reading

    ▶ Science and Islam, Jim Al-Khalili – BBC Documentary – YouTube

  • Dwindling Ignorance

    Conservation of energy does not mean preservation of energy. See the latter as opposite to entropy while the former is middle ground betwixt the two. The struggle of conservation we call life; our way through it, love; our outcome, belief.… Continue reading

    Dwindling Ignorance

  • Blake and Bashō

    William Blake “I feel that a Man may be happy in This World. And I know that This World Is a World of Imagination & Vision I see Every thing I paint In This World, but Every body does not… Continue reading

    Blake and Bashō

  • minding no-mind

    intertwining words sweet sighs carried as mirrors joyous reflection Continue reading

    minding no-mind

  • at last, flooding rain

    warm october day, no wind; clouds delay their threats: frog leaps from lotus Continue reading

    at last, flooding rain