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| #1 | 4/16/2024 | Nuclear Arms Bros
(Irene Fowler) "I believe that there is a greater power in the world than the evil power of military force or nuclear bombs." Linus Pauling1  |
| #2 | 4/16/2024 | Thomas J. Farrell's Personal History of the 1960s (REVIEW ESSAY)
(Thomas Farrell) Doris Kearns Goodwin's new 2024 book An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History (Simon & Schuster) triggered a response in me to write my own personal history of the 1960s. The present essay is wide-ranging, and at time meandering.1 |
| #3 | 4/16/2024 | Absence (Gary Lindorff) When the birds are here / The songs comes with them / The songs are in the birds |
| #4 | 4/15/2024 | Prana: it's not a big deal. Just breathe. (Gary Lindorff) Make this a practice, see what happens, share what happens. It doesn't matter who we are or what we think |
| #5 | 4/15/2024 | Series Review: Curb Your Enthusiasm (John Hawkins) Review of the series Curb Your Enthusiasm, which ends its tenure after the last episode hich aired a few nights ago |
| #6 | 4/14/2024 | Bibi King (a song) (John Hawkins) Dear ol' Bibi gets the treatment. Gee, can payback be far behind? God help us all. Umma bout to be palestined. |
| #7 | 4/11/2024 | Ruthless Poem (John Hawkins) Here is a fresh rant from stale buns. I'm punchy. It's an election year. Trump wins, we die. |
| #8 | 4/11/2024 | The speed demons followed by a reflection (Gary Lindorff) We / I feel like an ant among ants /Creeping along the vein of a leaf /Though a future-petrified swamp. |
| #9 | 4/9/2024 | interesting anecdote on healing my psychic / dream body (how that works) (Gary Lindorff) So, I think what happened here was I tended to my psychic / dream body and that resulted in eliminating one layer of my distress, |
| #10 | 4/9/2024 | The Eclipse as Cosmic Muse
(Meryl Ann Butler) As I watched today's eclipse, I pondered the cosmic symbolism.2 |
| #11 | 4/8/2024 | Walter Ong, Judith Butler, and the Vatican on Gender (REVIEW ESSAY) (Thomas Farrell) In this wide-ranging and lengthy review essay, I highlight the American Jesuit Walter Ong's 1981 Book Fighting for Life: contest, Sexuality [Gender], and Consciousness (Cornell University Press); the American leftist Judith Butler's new 2024 book Who's Afraid of Gender? (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); and the Vatican's just released new 2024 document on, in part, gender theory. |
| #12 | 4/8/2024 | Film Review: The Zone of Interest
(John Hawkins) Review if The Zone of Interest directed by Jonathan Glazer. Compared to the novel by Martin Amis.1 |
| #13 | 4/7/2024 | The Aries Solar Eclipse: Search for Identity The Whale Rider - How to Claim Your Identity
(Cathy Pagano) Since everyone in the US is being hit by eclipse fever, this will let you know what it all means. And if you take the time to watch "Whale Rider" you'll understand on a heart level what this eclipse means. It's time to heal and figure out your personal identity -- as well as your identity as an American.3 |
| #14 | 4/7/2024 | Me and Woodstock - a moment caught in amber (Gary Lindorff) Clark (with his shoulder-length raven hair To kill for is saying, "We're heading for Woodstock. Do you want to come?" |
| #15 | 4/5/2024 | Thought Cops On They Way (poem) (John Hawkins) The duture is here and is grim. Hard to fathom its details. It may or may not matter if you can swim. |
| #16 | 4/2/2024 | Chomsky, the Sitcom (play) (John Hawkins) Here is my proposed pilot for a sitcom about the daily foibles of Noam Chomsky at MIT. The pilot is titled "Disjointed." The series is based on the memoir, "Chomsky and Me," by Bev Stohl (2023). |
| #17 | 4/2/2024 | Say something followed by a reflection (Gary Lindorff) I don't remember you saying anything negative. / But when I read this today / I imagined you turning your pained eyes to me. |
| #18 | 4/1/2024 | Film Review: Perfect Days (2023) (John Hawkins) Review of the film, Perfect Days direted by Wim Wenders. Its a classic Wenders film. Excellent quiet achieved. |
| #19 | 3/31/2024 | Fareed Zakaria on Liberalism vs. Illiberalism (REVIEW ESSAY) (Thomas Farrell) The seasoned Indian American journalist, commentator, and author Fareed Zakaria (born in Mumbai in 1964; Ph.D. in government, Harvard University, 1993) has published a timely new book, Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present (W. W. Norton, 2024), about the print culture that emerged in Western culture after the Gutenberg printing press emerged in Europe in the mid-1450s. |
| #20 | 3/30/2024 | The Crocus Massacre, Seen from East and West (Philip Kraske) Who was behind the Crocus massacre? It depends on if you look at it from the East or the West. |
| #21 | 3/29/2024 | The teaching of the rainmaker (Gary Lindorff) The day has come / I see you anxiously packing / Your spear and your gun / And your pepper spray. |
| #22 | 3/29/2024 | Parasites (poem) (John Hawkins) Free verse worry about the human future. No worries, mate. She be good. Fair dinkum. |
| #23 | 3/28/2024 | March 29: On This Day in Art History
(Meryl Ann Butler) On this day in art history, March 29, Madeleine Knobloch's artist-lover died in Paris. She was born in 1868, and was a working class woman and artist's model. Her artist-lover was, at 31, was nearly a decade older.1 |
| #24 | 3/28/2024 | Jonathan Haidt on the Epidemic of Mental Illness in Gen Z (REVIEW ESSAY) (Thomas Farrell) The American social psychologist Jonathan Haidt (born in 1963; Ph.D. in social psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 1992) of New York University's Stern School of Business has published a disturbing new book about Gen Z, the generation born after 1995, titled The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Penguin Random House). He targets smartphones and social media. |
| #25 | 3/27/2024 | Watershed questions (Katie Singer) Can you draw a map of your bioregion? When does your rainy season begin? In your region, where does rainfall go? Where does your kitchen and bathroom wastewater go? |
| #26 | 3/27/2024 | Easter 2024 (poem) (John Hawkins) Not so good news for modern man. Are you sitting down. Of course you are. |
| #27 | 3/27/2024 | Reflection on my poem "Seeing Red", posted on 3/17/24 (Gary Lindorff) The 60s was my holocaust. It burned up my childhood to a cinder. But like the protagonist in The Giver, at the end of the 60s, my spirit was rescued by the color red. . |
| #28 | 3/26/2024 | Jesus's Serious Last Doubts for Sax (poem) (John Hawkins) An Easter sonnet for Easter, Jwsus plays the blues. It's gettin hard to be a savior of a world that don't want none. |
| #29 | 3/23/2024 | Thomas J. Farrell on His Most Memorable Year (REVIEW ESSAY) (Thomas Farrell) In this wide-ranging and associative and digressive and lengthy essay, I commemorate my memorable year of living in Manhattan and teaching English at City College/CUNY in 1975-1976. I focus of four fine people I knew when I was there: (1) Mina P. Shaughnessy (1924-1978); (2) Theodore L. Gross (1931-2022); (3) Edward Quinn (1932-2012); and (4) Sarah D'Eloia (1943-1990). |
| #30 | 3/23/2024 | The Water Sonnet (John Hawkins) It's world water day. And I feel like flipping a cheerleadr high in the sky! Okay, it's a day or so lter. I forgot. Imagine being a water creature and forgetting water day, f*ck. |
