Are you exceptionally likeable?
I already know that I’m not. Some people like me exceptionally well. But I think most people find me a trifle odd. Maybe not just a trifle. And now I know why. I don’t fit this profile at all, and … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Arts
“This is the dawning of the Age of Hysteria”
New song lyrics by Gerard Vanderleun. It helps to know the original. Actually, I think the Age of Hysteria may have dawned quite some time ago. But that’s a minor quibble. Also, let me add that I think it’s cold … Continue reading →
Something more pleasant…
…for a beautiful weekend, here’s a photo I took the other day at the ocean:
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I’m a big “High Noon” fan, and one of the best things about the movie is the music. It runs throughout the entire film, sometimes as a ballad with lyrics, sometimes as the wordless theme on which many variations are … Continue reading →
Orwell on the will to power for power’s sake
I read George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four when I was about twelve years old. You might say that’s too early to truly understand it. And if you said that, you’d probably be right. But even then, I understood it well enough. … Continue reading →
No wheels involved
I’ve posted clips of the Russian folk dance company known as the Moiseyev before. A signature move in a few of their dances is a quick scurry of the feet that gives the illusion of the dancer being on wheels … Continue reading →
Waking up in a strange place
Did you ever wake up convinced you were in one place, and then look around and realize you’re in another? Maybe you’re on vacation and you think you’re at home, until you look around the room and everything is unfamiliar. … Continue reading →
RIP Valerie Harper
Valerie Harper has died at the age of 80. Harper was absolutely wonderful on the long-term hit “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” as wisecracking sidekick Rhoda. Neither Jewish, nor fat, nor a New Yorker, she played a character who was … Continue reading →
O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou being dragged into a dispute between National Review and Max Boot?
Yesterday I started reading this National Review piece by Charles C. W. Cooke criticizing Max Boot’s recent fault-finding with National Review. I thought it might be subject matter for a post, but I didn’t have much interest in it after … Continue reading →
Osipova: the turning machine
Everyone up for a palate cleanser? I am. I’m not one for mere technical feats, however amazing. But Osipova’s turns here are so amazing they made me gasp, and it takes a lot to do that because I’ve seen a … Continue reading →
Get Roger’s Goat!
Roger Simon, founder of PJ Media, author of many novels and screenplays, has a new book out called The Goat. He explains here why he decided to self-publish it, after so many novels published in the conventional way: The Amazon … Continue reading →
Baryshnikov shows what “ballon” means
It’s the illusion the dancer gives of pausing for a moment at the top of the jump and hovering in the air. This is from a film, probably made some time in the 1980s:
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