U.S. SCIENCE UPENDED
IT IS A CHAOTIC PERIOD AND AAAS Science described Trump’s first weeks in office as “New Administration Upends U.S. Science.” Here are tidbits gleaned from this and related articles. Quoted … Continue reading
F1 CARS AS KINETIC ART
CURATORS AT THE PIRELLI HANGARBICOCCA say “Jean Tinguely (Fribourg, 1925–Bern, 1991) is considered one of the pioneering artists of the 20th century. As one of the most important exponents of … Continue reading
IF YOU’RE MISERABLE AT YOUR LIFE, DON’T READ ANY FURTHER
THE HISTORY QUIZ WEBSITE recently posted “Get a Purr-fect Score on This History of Cats Quiz.” Being as I am a cat-loving grandfather, I recall the asinine comment made by … Continue reading
TRUMP’S “ALTERNATIVE FACTS”
KELLYANNE CONWAY, COUNSELOR TO THE PRESIDENT, famously coined the term “alternative facts” to describe what turned out to be falsehoods uttered by Press Secretary Sean Spicer about the crowd count … Continue reading
THE SHIITAKE LOOKED ESPECIALLY APPETIZING
THE SHIITAKE MUSHROOMS LOOKED BRIGHT and appetizing in the Vons produce department. My freezer already had Wild Argentine Red Shrimp (ha. sounds like one of Trump’s WWE cage pals), so … Continue reading
FRED ASTAIRE AND CAVALIER’S MG TD PART 2
Yesterday, an airborne MG TD popped from a magazine cover as Fred Astaire ambled by, or so it seemed watching part of MGM’s Entertainment trilogy. Today in Part 2 we … Continue reading
FRED ASTAIRE AND CAVALIER’S MG TD PART 1
SO WHAT’S THE LINK BETWEEN FRED ASTAIRE and the car R&T called “As Friendly as a Tail-Wagging Dog”? Image from That’s Entertainment, 1974. Fred is examining magazines in a Santa … Continue reading
THE MOST HAPPY FELON—A SCREENPLAY
SO IT’S THE EARLY 1930S AND I’M WORKING ON THIS HOLLYWOOD SCREENPLAY. Geez, gimme a break. It’s better than standing in a bread line, and as it’s Pre-Code I don’t … Continue reading
THE FOUR B’S, LYSISTRATA, THE SECOND GREATEST SEX, AND IS THAT A GUN IN YOUR POCKET? PART 2
YESTERDAY, BBC WORLD SERVICE GOT US STARTED with the Four B’s, a 21st-century movement inspired by Aristophanes’ play Lysistrata, wherein she and her pals swear off sex until their husbands … Continue reading
THE FOUR B’S, LYSISTRATA, THE SECOND GREATEST SEX, AND IS THAT A GUN IN YOUR POCKET? PART 1
KEEPING HEP ON WORLD CULTURE is a non-trivial activity. Here I was listening to my 6:00 a.m. BBC World Service and it mentioned the Korean Four B’s. This encouraged a … Continue reading
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