What is most fascinating about The Sorrows of Young Werther is how much its love triangle structure permeates our culture in one form or another. Ich habe das Herz gefühlt, die große […]
A few words about The Sorrows of Young Werther
Golden Guys
“Where streams of whiskey are flowing…” –The Pogues Part six of my S&R Tokyo Series One November day in Tokyo my wife and I were walking through the normally quiet and deserted […]
Bill Maher: it’s not the words he used, it’s how he used them
Our fear of the “N-word” only makes it stronger, but Maher used it for a cheap laugh. This is not acceptable and he knows it. Bill Maher stepped in it on his […]
Newborn
Kathy Griffin badly miscalculated. Or did she? Enquiring minds want to know…
What did Griffin think was going to happen? Kathy seems to have gone Fukushima on us. She lost her CNN gig and an endorsement deal for some kind of potty product (that […]
Waiting: Union Station, Denver
It was five years ago today… Saturday, June 2, 2012 – I had purchased my first camera the day before and ventured out to the Denver Chalk Art Festival. I’ve come a […]
Your Daily Devotional for June 2, 2017
[Deplorable saws off his own hand] Me: WHAT ARE YOU DOING??? Deplorable: ha ha lib, did I trigger you? Me: What? No, it’s just… Deplorable: YOU LOST, GET OVER IT Your Daily […]
Don’t worry: The rich will save the federal government. No, really. Right?
Imagine you’re filthy rich. A one-percenter. You’ve got tons of investments and other sources of interest-based income. Yes, I know, you’ve got that vacation house in Aspen and that skiing chalet in […]
Eleanor Rigby: the real and the imagined…
It would be enlightening to hear McCartney explain how he came to create such an effecting portrait of loneliness and existential pain. “I thought, I swear, that I made up the name […]
