Friday, July 26, 2013

Happy Birthday, Mick Jagger & George Bernard Shaw

It's Mick Jagger's birthday---the Stones account has produced a video of him on stage through the years---and @BritishMuseum just reminded me it is also the birthday of George Bernard Shaw.  How poetic.  The Irishman who wrote a lot about "marriage and the hypocrisies of monogamy"—and the...
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Saturday, July 20, 2013

Moonlanding Day: Witnessing that Small & GIant Step. Thanks Mom & Dad.

On July 20, 1969, at 8:00 p.m. I had to go to bed, just like any other night. But at 10:30 p.m., my father woke my brother and me up. It’s one of the kindest things he ever did for us, making sure that since we were on the planet, we would see this event to top all events live, not just in replay. I...
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Friday, July 19, 2013

They'll Always Be an England: Poet of the Most Famous Cricket Poem Is Also a Jack the Ripper Suspect

 “More than any other sport, cricket is a lesson in civility.” “I cannot be the first to wonder if what we see when we see men in white take to a cricket field, is men imagining an environment of justice.”                       ...
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Justin Timberlake & Andrew Niccol's Homage to Bond, Just "In Time"

I'm usually two years behind most first-run movies, and so I just saw Andrew Niccol's 2011 In Time, starring Justin Timberlake & Amanda Seyfried, pretty much, on time. The philosophical premise of "time" as an absolute commodity is interesting, but for me, not the point. The film is a delightful...
              

Sunday, July 14, 2013

National Days, a Mystery Song, & Gordon Sinclair

Many people aren't in the mood for a "rah-rah" American post this morning, following the Zimmerman verdict. I like what Ta-Nehisi Coates has to say a lot. Though our legal system is flawed,  it is still one of the great ones in the world. I know today is what the English speaking countries call...
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