Here it is, kids. For the first time in years, I’m writing about my time in Telluride. Or any festival, for that matter. We’ll see how this goes. There’s just something about being 9,000 feet up that makes movies that much better. I could be watching the shittiest piece of sh...
Anti-Semitism, as in hatred of Jewish people, is something most people are aware of, as in the Holocaust of the past, and present day attacks on synagogues and terrorist attacks on Jewish people. A Google search will also produce a large quantity of hits for “anti-Catholic” and / ...
Seems like I’ve come to the end of the line and don’t have too much more to say about books and music and stuff. It’s been a good run and it’s been great fun. The best thing was feeling that I’d gained an audience (however selective) and the interaction that goes with ...
to the publication ofA Christmas Carol, Christmas was barely recognized. Although it was a holiday it didn’t have the romantic vibe that it has today. Mr. Dickens and his novel changed all that. And, if he’d waited for his publisher to release the book it may never have happened. ...
” I don’t remember if that happened or not, but it’s happened since then. “Royalty at the End of the Millennium” –Oddly, this is one of the longer pieces. As it’s as topical in the new reign of Charles III as it was then (?) I’ll deal with it later “Part(l)y ...
So, a few people started to go public with their doubts, and what happened next wasn’t pretty. Researchers who reported failures to replicate famous findings were told, by professors at Yale, Harvard and Princeton (respectively), that they had “nothing in their heads,” were “shameless lit...
instincts. I can marinate in perceived failure or I can embrace the quirky uniqueness of my own little tribe. I am finding that when I commit to this, the veil of comparison is lifted and I am free to celebrate the quirky uniqueness of others as well.I don’t know whazz good for you...
Important note: This adaptation in no way seeks to suggest any kind of equivalence between the Holocaust (the subject of the original poem) and our present situation. The form was borrowed here for its power to say something about accountability and responsibility. ...
I discovered that the French Revolution, Otto von Bismarck, Joseph Stalin, and the Holocaust are what many of my students enjoyed learning about most this year. I’m impressed with the Bismarck thing; I don’t know how many high school students around the world are enthralled with him. As...
players, factions vying for control of Westeros prepare to square off—but the White Walkers have other ideas. An admirable shift to brisker pacing, plus the show’s most thrilling set piece sequence, give way to a final two episodes that will stand forever in the annals of idiot plotting....