We’ve been watching a LOT of horror films. It seems like a tremendously useful and helpful way to challenge negative energy and anxiety during a pandemic… sort of like, “Oh it could be worse”. Something (more…)
Charlie Chaplin’s 1940 speech from “The Greatest Dictator” is prescient, brutally self-aware, and more relevant than ever.
Again… this is 80 years old, this year of 2020. —— I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone (more…)
The internet is a bizarre, sinewy, wonderful place at times, *OR* the roundabout ways I found out about my favorite bands.
You never know what you’re going to get, in this maddening world where the digital and objective physical places in time intersect, like portals as doorways into other minds and experiences. This is (more…)
I heard you love ambient and relaxing electronic music?
Artist – Song Have fun. The Orb: Little Fluffy Clouds https://vimeo.com/68906475 Skylab’s 1994 track “Next” from their album “Skylab #1”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds2-uFaWprU Electric (more…)
The Frontier is Everywhere…. Carl Sagan on Wanderers, and we as Voyagers.
Wanderers – a short film by Erik Wernquist from Erik Wernquist on Vimeo. Voyagers from Santiago Menghini on Vimeo.
Heatherwick Studio is growing plants for Bombay Sapphire’s gin, and it’s beautiful.
Fascinating, and functional. Heatherwick Studio’s master plan proposed the creation of two new glasshouses to grow specimens of the 10 exotic plant species used in the Bombay Sapphire distillation process. (more…)
Reframe your ideas of meaning & purpose. =)
Meaning and purpose isn’t quantifiable like mass or gravity. It can’t be measured…. it’s completely human defined, and as subjective as that makes it, it’s totally individual. I think I stopped (more…)
A plea for our National Parks, President Trump.
I am inconsolable and can’t work. I am not afraid to admit I am crying as if I have lost my dearest friend. ****I am unabashedly asking all of you to share this.**** The Republicans are going to rip apart (more…)
A September 11th hotel story. Life Story. Thoughtful memories.. I will update!
I was at a 1000 room hotel in LA. Sept 11 AM had a literal 1000 check outs, and 1000 check ins that day. We had people sleeping in lobby, our bar, all restaurants. I sent people home, assuming further (more…)
When being right just makes you stuck. Don’t be stuck… a metaphor for being stuck in a car.
This was in lieu of this Jalopnik question: http://jalopnik.com/whats-the-worst-youve-ever-gotten-your-car-stuck-1780799839 That being said, I am sleepy, and have a right to change the story: In (more…)