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sci-fi and science fantasy
by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) … William Fitzgerald Jenkins, AKA Murray Leinster (1896-1975)! The award-winning writer of science fiction and alternative history had an absolutely prolific output, including 1500 short stories and articles, 14 … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged analog magazine, argosy magazine, galaxy magazine, H.L. Mencken, h.l. mencken the smart set, jesse marinoff reyes, louisa carter lee, murray leinster, paul verhoeven, Richard M. Powers, saturday evening post, star wars movie, william fitzgerald jenkins
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gender swag
… clever and suggestive? Does the expected backlash merely enhance notoriety and reinforce the values the critics see. It does remind of the sports athlete whose career is over because of concussion syndrome. There was no one specific hit, but … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Arthur Rimbaud, Edward Bernays, Feminist frequency, kim kardashian, LEGO friends, peggy orenstein, samantha ettus, sexist advertising, sheryl sandberg, sheryl sandberg facebook, stereotype threats, Walter Benjamin
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brother can you spare a dime?
The Great Depression ended in every film. If it ever existed. Yes we could thank Shirley Temple for that. The great template that the American entertainment complex gave us, and keeps on giving us. To learn to love kids, and … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged charles sellon, Edward Bernays, eleanor roosevelt, fred bojangles robinson, gifford and young, Herbert Hoover, J.P. Morgan, jaime diamond, james jimmy dunn, Pecora Commission, shirley temple, shirley temple curly top, Sigmund Freud, Thorstein Veblen, Walter Lippman, William Wellman
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boutique atheism : babel banter
What are the limits of scientific rationalism? But what actually is atheism, besides an ecological and scientific dirt disher despite Chris Hitchens perhaps stuck in limbo, a purgatory of the missionary position somewhere in rhetorical rebuttal to the anal perversions … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged A.C Grayling, alain de botton, Alfred Stieglitz, Ashcan School, Christopher Hitchens, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, John Updike, Leo Steinberg, Marcel Duchamp, Martin Heidegger, Max Ernst, Niall Ferguson, Stephen Fry, Thorstein Veblen, william glackens
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drinking with the man
from Paul Hamilton of the Bisonics: DRINKING WITH JESUS I’ve been drinking with Jesus In a bar full of New Cross geezers He won the jackpot on the one-armed bandit Scooping the loot he smiled, ‘That’s the way Dad planned … Continue reading
caliban
Fear of a Black planet? The hypocritical emancipatory liberalism of John Stuart Mill that seems to reinforce patriarchy, racism in the most delectable sugar coating that today’s pop culture can occultishly conjure up. O Brave New World of Shakespeare’s The … Continue reading
what price freedom?
A holocaust industry. That god works in mysterious ways seems to be a pretty lame excuse. Forget faith. It was always about the covenant. Trust. The special relationship direct to the throne without intermediary. A misplaced belief? Yahweh simply wasn’t … Continue reading
minaret at the gates of vienna
The psychopath as superficially normal. The Eichmann syndrome where a mass murderer passes psychological testing with a sterling recommendation of a clinically normal individual who loves his family and is kind to pets. Hannah Arendt claimed his crime was thoughtlessness. … Continue reading
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Tagged anders behring breivik, anders breivik, bret easton ellis, dag ohrlund, dan park poster, Hannah Arendt, jallow momodou, jon ronson, patrick bateman, robert mendick, stephen porter psychologist, the psychopath test, thomas hamilton dublane killer
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