Daily Afffirmations: Courtesy of Beckett, Shakespeare, Camus, Faulkner, the Greeks, Monty Python, Koheleth, and yours truly... Birth was the death of him. --Samuel Beckett Do I believe in God? But of course. The undeniable evidence of his insanity, his apathy, his impotence, his malevolence, and his...
Me&SweetFace.SmallPeekInside March24.2004 EditorsNote: I am a subscriber to a magazine called “Paper”, it is a magazine about NewYorkCity, with the Readership being generally NewYorkCity, & at the beginning of every Issue the Magazine poses a question to the Audience to answer in roughly...
My friend recently came to me with a number of difficult questions about God, justice, love, and mercy. A friend of his had undergone and continues to undergo humiliating degradation at the hands of Man's passions and so-called justice. In situations like those, we always have to wonder "Why?" but...
By the late 70's The Police emerged as a major act after a bit of a false start, the UK New Wave scene gave them a platform for take off, however, the were differenet to most other bands in the scene in that they were a combination of experienced musicians who saw the opportunnity that new wave...
I just turned 48, and I made a few little observations to keep it all in perspective. Perhaps you might enjoy it if I shared them with you. I'm such a lucky guy. I come from long lived and fiesty folks going back 3 or more generations. I knew and learned much from both my great grandfathers, and one...
– By Sean Hutchinson Driving through to Rooi Els the night before the race had me worried. The wind was pumping!!! I really did not feel like paddling into the teeth of a howling South Easter before sunrise the following morning. Oh well, after a thorough equipment check we were in bed early...
Progressives Strut Their Stuff Posted on February 12, 2008 By A.J. DiCintio Since you must be wondering what the “Progressives” are all about, let me begin by quoting Mark Twain’s King, whose explanation of this term favored by Hillary Clinton has never been equaled: “I say Progressive, not...
(Thanks to Shekhar Ghosh for yet another blogging blog) A seminal moment at Blue Frog Among other seminal moments that Blue Frog will witness in the months to come, Monday’s gig was one such. Perhaps the first one. It was sudden billing. Zakir Hussain, the tabla wizard, had got in Bela Flek and...
Last night the first episode of a new American sitcom called The Big Bang Theory played on Channel4. To lazily crib from Wiki: “The series is about two socially inept prodigies in their 20s who are living across the hall from a beautiful girl with a questionable intellect. When one genius falls...
The Academy Awards. Overhyped. Boring. Self-indulgent. Pretty much the opposite of the Saturday's laid back Independent Spirit Awards. On top of that, 2007 was a year of lackluster cinema and the show was cobbled together in only a few post-strike weeks. Oh, Jon Stewart, may the gods of comedy be...
In a recent comment, my friend the lovely Wendy (Itsalife.org), observed her own surprise at my music tastes vis a vis my personality. It got me thinking, as all good posts and comments should, and made me wonder about my own musical and personal journey to where I am now, the memories I have of...
by Sean Hutchinson The WPASS 100 took place over the first weekend of December 2007. We entered a team of 3, consisting of Anna, Quintin and Sean. After a heavy year if racing including the Eden challenge where all 3 of us raced in different teams, we were looking forward to the race. Waking early...
Year of The Rat 4706 February 13, 2008 AD Wednesday, 1410 hrs CST Stormcrow Ranch Boone, IA USA "Squirrel Corn Capital Of The World" I've been married three times now. Mostly good except for that end part where they leave. Yes. It is always they who leave. Apparently, I tend to wear down wives...
From Paris, With Hustle By MELISSA CLARK Published: February 13, 2008 WHEN I was young and studying in Paris I had a friend, Stéphanie, who helped demystify some of the more intimate aspects of French culture. A chic gamine, she taught me the delights of forthright flirting, the art of knotting a...
I recently spent a week in Presque Isle, Maine, the northern-most point I've visited in the continental US, being roughly 2 degrees of latitude north of Minneapolis. Traveling on business and being unused to the snow and early sunsets, I didn't get much of a chance to explore, though I did get very...
I've always hated Valentine's Day. I hate that all the shittiest romantic comedies come out in the month of February and that we get bombarded with bad jewelry commercials ("Show her that you love her. . .by putting yourself in further financial debt!"). Maybe I'm just a cynic, but I think the other...
Okay. So, my first post is to tell you about myself. Not knowing who YOU are does not make this easy at all. I really don't like talking about myself, I find that I tend tell very little about myself and what I do tell makes me sound boring and really not that interesting at all. Maybe I am boring....
1. Remind me that we'll always have each other (Dig/ Incubus) 2. Help me carry on (Crawling in the Dark/ Hoobastank 3. You've made me an offer that I can refuse (I'm Designer/ Queens of the Stone Age) 4. Do you think I would call just to hear you breathe? (Where No One Knows/ Alexisonfire) 5. And in...
Last night I went to see Punchdrunk’s latest production, Masque of the Red Death, at the Battersea Arts Centre. Once the Old Town Hall, more than 100 people have been involved in transforming this entire listed building in south London into a labyrinth of dark Parisian streets, mental asylums,...
Reading this article today, reminded me of how destroyed our current prison system is, especially when compared to other developed countries. Even here in the USA, besides incarcerating record numbers of our citizens, we spend more money on them than we do on the education of our citizens...whats...
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