Archive for the ‘ Entertainment ’ Category

A Clockwork Orange – The Movie

Hollywood knows its viewers are idiots (especially when they are viewing) – and produces movies to please them. This summarizes my review of the movie. The book was literature of a particular kind: social satire, which the English have specialized in for a long time, and which they do better than anyone else. The movie [ READ MORE ]

March 9 1959 First Barbie Doll

Craig Hill This is another blogger you should know about. Just keeping up will all his posts is a job in itself. From this posting; Eleven inches tall, with a waterfall of blond hair, Barbie was the first mass-produced toy doll in the United States with adult features. The woman behind Barbie was Ruth Handler, [ READ MORE ]

Cathedral Sunset – Sedona, AZ

Photobotos I lived for awhile in Sedona, back when I was living mostly out of the back of my pickup truck. I wasn’t taking in pictures back then, just sleeping out in the beautiful country. The people there, I have to say, were not so beautiful, and I had to ignore them[ READ MORE ]

The World is a Mess

Few will agree on anything about our present situation, but they will agree that the world is a mess – there is just no better way to describe it. I am watching the movie Pollock, which I got from Netflix. In a flash of insight I realized what Pollock was doing: his paintings were a mess – [ READ MORE ]

Absorbing Idiocy Gratefully

I had an interesting experience at my dentist office yesterday. She doesn’t usually have many clients, but yesterday the office was full of people. After a short while my dentist poked her head out of her operating room and said she had an emergency, and asked if I could wait for 10 minutes? I said [ READ MORE ]

Awakenings

This is a review of the movie, which I got from NetFlix. I first read the book, and was inspired by it – and by its author, Oliver Sacks. I can’t believe he let Hollywood tell his own story – and distort it completely. In the movie he comes across as a well-meaning idiot – [ READ MORE ]

External Forces are Now In Control

What do I mean by this? I mean people are no longer in control of their world – instead, their world controls them. We can no longer imagine what inside forces or internally-directed individuals or social movements, could be. Because these have been destroyed completely. Everyone lives in fear of being discovered – just the [ READ MORE ]

Individuals Make Societies, Societies Make Individuals

Pardon me for saying the obvious, but it needs to be said. This is a two-way street, or at least it should be. The whole idea of a democracy was to make more people part of the government. The built-in tendency is for only a few to be in positions of power. America is now [ READ MORE ]

People Like Seeing Themselves in a Less-Than-Favorable Light

This has been true ever since drama was invented by the Greeks. Men screamed with terror and women had spontaneous miscarriages, when the actors – wearing heavy clothing and masks, came down the aisle before the play began. And the next night they came back for more. In our time, the TV series Mad Men – [ READ MORE ]

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