Great Performances: King Lear
Everyone loves free movies, so here’s the 2009 Royal Shakespeare Company production of King Lear, arguably mankind’s greatest piece of literature. Absolutely extraordinary is Ian McKellen, a.k.a. Gandalf, a.k.a. Magneto, who plays Lear, a role considered by actors one of the most difficult to perform. (If I thought that awards truly mattered as advertised then […]
After the Rains of Castamere
I’d like to extend a heartfelt round of applause for all A Song of Ice and Fire nerds, who so dutifully enabled last night’s Game of Thrones episode to be the surprise it deserved. You have collectively set the standard for the book-to-screen decorum and, gratefully, I commend your (continued) tight lips. Also, a brief […]
Of Course I Support Gay Marriage
Of course I support gay marriage. Not gay, never will be. However I don’t see why I should find happiness in seeing a peaceful freedom deprived from others. Same applies to matters of speech, press, religion, alcohol, tobacco, drugs, big gulps, hair cutting, nipple piercing, stem celling, spray tanning, prophet drawing, arms bearing, jort wearing, […]
Abundance: A Follow Up
As a follow-up to my post on Friday, I’d like to offer my highest recommendation for one of the year’s best books, titled Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think. In this video, I’ve included a pair of excepts from the audiobook that relate directly to Friday’s tragedy, exploring how our brains work, and […]
On Sandy Hook
Humans are imperfect. We have been and we always will be. No amount of laws, thought control, propaganda, oppression, eugenics, wish thinking, or even well-meaning education will ever will fix this. Believe what you want, but we are highly evolved mammals who are prone to being right and wrong –- and who certainly are prone […]
That Friend, That Light
My friend – Your darkness, it will lighten. Let it hurt you. Let it shape you. Let it never take you away. Let it see you. Let it blind you. Let it always shine inside you. You soar when you laugh. You glisten when you cry. If you listen when you try your center you will find. Beaming like that pulsar. Glowing like that sunrise. Smiling like that friend who never hurts who never hides who always cares who always […]
A Journey Home: One Marine’s Story
Today is PTSD Awareness Day. I not only want to thank those who’ve served, but also make extra efforts to reflect on their sacrifices. Convenient or not, life is forever complicated. I hope that I always try to find understanding, especially when doing so seems inconvenient. This is the story of one of my good […]
The Sweetest Executioner
Poised with poison I don that invisible black hood. A promise ripens as my father’s time nears: in his living room I will keep him from dying in horror. At last I find that the loss of the life of the man who gave me mine must embody my mind and body taking merciless action to give […]
Closure
Brutal this canvas – a course so comfortably coarse, to retrace our warmth now lost. Drained I sketch waves of pain that will ebb until my blood no longer flows. You taught me to breathe in, to let go, to leap in, to draw, so with this portrait, I withdraw the currents of the present to pull all […]
Sunday Mass
Silent yet I roar shifting fearing this monstrosity ever-nearing. My God why must I rear this gaseous goblin? My God why must I host this unholy ghost? My God how dare I spew this cursed spirit upon the smooth ash below? Oh unforgiving pew! Surrounded by believers I too am a believer that through their nostrils […]
