brooding in a contrary kind of way.
Read moregreat work
with great work, you don’t envy the creator, you envy what they made.
Read moreMovie: Match Point
Were it anyone other than Woody Allen you'd be mildly impressed. But the fact is, these characters are wooden and merely instrumental to a bloodless story. You know he's been in command of the real incandesence of life as a filmmaker, but here is threadbare and functional. Revisiting Crimes and Misdemeanors in certain ways with…
Read more7/7/7
On this day 30 years ago, we went to Ocean City NJ for the day. I remember getting my beach ticket (a fairly new development, that you needed to pay to go on the beach) and looking at the date 7/7/77. 30 years later, with Rebecca, Sevi & Hart we went to the Imagination Playground…
Read moreA different kind of person
is emerging in the coming generation, pragmatic, to meet the crisis.
Read moreNo water fountain at Fairway Red Hook, Brooklyn
It's all splendid, yes, but if you're thirsty and have no money, you parch…The bottled water aisle has a a greater selection than anywhere I have ever seen–it goes on for about 20 yards.This is the ownership society for you.
Read morea refrain
there's no money for thatand it's getting hotter.
Read moreTears have Telomeres
and you get to the end of them,dogs and cats got your showered griefnow hardpan for people
Read moreBelief as Habit
you believe something long enough & it becomes very hard to belief in something else. this is why people are as fundamentalist about terminal mortality as they are about the afterlife. you give up the fight, succumb to the brain you've fashioned for yourself, because the thought of undoing all that work just makes you…
Read moreActing the Result
is bad acting. So too is striving to orchestrate the world to cozen to the leaders vs. followers model. As if the ruling class is not the result of an organic process of cream rising to the top, but that such a "result" must be engineered. There's some intellectual slippage when adherents of so-called biological…
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