July 5th, 1981 The 1st Annual Sundance Festival By Roger Ebert Robert Redford's experiment: a struggle for independents Sundance, Utah--Up here above Provo, in the resort he has carved out of a little mountain meadow, Robert Redford is conducting an…
I invite you to view this video. I will have some comments later. The video was sent to me by my old pal Mike Jones, head of the Illinois State Lottery. It's viral, with more than 5 million hits. It…
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Spoken Word writes on his wonderful Spoken Verse.com: . Ezra Pound shared a cottage with W B Yeats during a period of three years. It seems that he didn't share Yeats' ambition to end up living alone on an island…
Higgins was at the University of Illinois when I was. This rant has gone viral with over 2,000,00 hits. Here is an article. Plunging into a debate, he suggests Ireland has not yet been defeated by Political Correctness. And to…
This animation is explained in this New Scientist article. I remain incapable of encompassing additional dimensions, and wonder if in fact they exist only in math. I'm assured they exist, and are necessary. If they did not exist, I would…
Click here to enter this week's contest. A group of my losing entries, plus my one Winner, and the entry the cartoon editor said online that he liked but it didn't quite clear the bar on New Yorker's taste standards.
Paul Galloway as Tootsie on Michigan Ave. (Photo by Jack Lane) Chicago Sun-Times / February 3, 2009 We will never hear the Sheep Story again. Nor will we enjoy his presence in a room, which was an invitation to good…
I can hardly believe I didn't know that Werner Herzog starred in an episode of "Boondocks." This link was sent to me by a reader. Is that Herzog's own voice.It sounds real to me. In any event, Herzog's precise and…
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