May 2011
55 posts
The Last Encore? →
essayist:
Wells Tower on the Kennedy Center’s weeklong “Jazz in Our Time” celebration
After the applause subsided, a stage manager took the microphone and explained to the honorees how the shoot and the award ceremony were going to unfold.
“What we want to do. Is bring all the honorees on stage. In as smooth a fashion. And as quick a fashion. As possible,” he said, in the maddeningly slow...
It’s Cool to be depressed because Alain said so………
In this secular sermon, Alain challenges the great bourgeois promise that everyone can find happiness in love and work and suggests that we take on the joys of pessimism instead. He argues that the chances of anyone succeeding in both areas (let alone in one) are extremely remote - and that it is therefore peculiar, and...
Just dope as hell………
gwarn Toddla!