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George Zimmerman’s Art Sells for Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars
Originally posted on Critique Collective: Another wild story about George Zimmerman is surfacing. Back in July, Zimmerman was acquitted on a charge of second-degree murder and manslaughter for shooting and killing Trayvon Martin. So, what could be the new controversy… Continue reading
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Spirit of Steller’s Sea Eagles of Hokkaido
Originally posted on Global Sojourns: Photography & Philosophy: At some time or another, I think everyone has wondered what it would be like to fly…to soar above our world and look down upon the chaos below with detachment. Our natural… Continue reading
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I Am Not My Job: Why I Left New York City
It was Patti Smith who said, in a talk at Cooper Union in 2010, that “New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling.” Smith wrote in her memoir, Just Kids, about coming to New York as… Continue reading
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2013 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 31,000 times in 2013. If it were a… Continue reading
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One of the World’s Most Powerful Financiers Worried About Damages of Wealth Gap
…Bill Gross, the most powerful bond manager of his generation and co-head of a $2 trillion investment management firm… rankled a few of his peers and clients in the fall when he joined a growing chorus that is raising caution… Continue reading
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Your brain on BEER vs. COFFEE – I Love Coffee
Your brain on BEER vs. COFFEE – I Love Coffee. Your brain on BEER vs. COFFEE – I Love Coffee. Continue reading
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The Mariachi Mass
It’s a musical tradition found in Mexican-American enclaves mostly in southwestern U.S. cities. The mariachi Mass brings an ensemble of garishly dressed folk musicians — with their guitars, trumpets and violins — right down to the front of the church,… Continue reading
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Unearthing music
We all knew that Stone Age humans were hunters and gatherers. But sculptors and flutists? Archeologists announced today that they had unearthed the oldest musical instruments ever found — flutes that inhabitants of southwestern Germany laboriously carved from bone and… Continue reading
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Flowing Exploration
Metaphysics as a way of thinking suffers from confusion with superstition. As I have noted before, superstition encompasses more than the narrow notion thrown around by the “educated” where a person has irrational beliefs about a relationship between an imagined… Continue reading
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Upon the Depths of Uncertainty
Consider metaphysical thinking as the building up of vessels allowing us to explore the oceans of reality. Their hulls carry the provisions of our accumulated knowledge. Their rudders direct course by the pole star of the “Why not?” Their sails… Continue reading
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International: Ripe for rebellion? | The Economist
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a sister company of The Economist, measures the risk of social unrest in 150 countries around the world. It places a heavy emphasis on institutional and political weaknesses. And recent developments have indeed revealed a… Continue reading
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Learning the Difference between Neo-Liberalism and Progressivism in the Poverty Nation
There is a big difference to be made between the progressivism that once was the hall-mark of left-wing politics and the left-leaning wing of neo-liberalism. This article, focusing on how corporations–and I would add many colleges & universities–make use of… Continue reading
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ArtiZen Threads
My good friend Rodney has started a marvelous small business creating some great products using hand woven fabrics from artisanal weavers in Vietnam and Guatemala. [Such as this Meditation Cushion pictured here.[ Brothers and sisters of the Ether, you know… Continue reading
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▶ How Does Night Vale Confront Us With the Unknown? | Idea Channel | PBS Digital Studios – YouTube
Night Vale\’s masterful balance of mystery, humor, and horror has made it the #1 podcast in America. Night Vale employs the techniques of H.P. Lovecraft, specifically his masterful manipulation of THE UNKNOWN, but the medium chosen makes it literally impossible… Continue reading
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How to Piss Off Your Barista — I. M. H. O. — Medium
I have been working in the coffee industry now for a decade. I am not a world champion barista, but I am capable. All 10 of the items in this list are spot on and great. But number 3 is… Continue reading
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