It’s all moving so quickly. Just yesterday, we were amazed by the miracle of making calls from our cars. Now we’re furious when our 4G cuts out while streaming an HD video on a four-inch touch screen, just because we’re 50 feet underground riding …
When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process. That is fairly well understood, at least in the arts… Something is always killed. But what is less noticed in the arts—something is always cre…
This is a reproduction of the original 1843 circus poster that inspired John Lennon to write the song Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!, which appeared on The Beatles’ 1967 album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Lennon bought the poster in …
…they change the world into words.’ –William H. Gass
‘When asked in 1991 to describe an obstacle he had faced during his lifetime and the subsequent effect of his overcoming it, author Ray Bradbury replied to schoolteacher William Stanhope with the following letter. His inspiring response, along wit…
“Comrades-Democrats” Russian Ivan & Uncle Sam, two posters from 1917 (Kerensky times): via darkroastedblend.com And the winds blow back…and forth….
via cache.gawkerassets.com “There will be no C, X, or Q in our every-day alphabet…No mosquitos or flies…Vegetables grown by electricity!”
Grave stones for soldiers killed in action or after the Civil War are seen at Albany Rural Cemetery in Menands, N.Y. Nearly 150 years after the last fusillade of the Civil War, historians, authors and museum curators are still finding new topics t…
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