Tag Archives: Buster keaton

coach there’s a zebra at second base

Posted on March 3, 2012 by Dave

Baseball, like any institution has always needed an inventory of necessary myths that sustain it, somehow invoke deity status, and some form of the exceptional that can be woven into the fabric of empire, and by extension claim a piece … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged bart giamatti, Buster keaton, eddie stankey, George Bellows, Guy Debord, joe queenan, leo durocher, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, roger kahn, Thorstein Veblen, ty cobb, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

Do you compromise?

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Dave

That’s an ironic headline. Considering it came in a fold-over card weight flyer in the weekend Globe and Mail for State of Israel bonds. Evidently, militarism, belligerence and bad faith negotiating, not to mention illegal settlements, human right violations, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged arthur goldreich, ateret cohanim oraganization, Buster keaton, david weinfeld, dennis goldberg ANC, dr. sherry cooper, elbit systems, israel africa bonds, israel bonds, israel divestment, john dugard united nations, kalle lasn, meir margalit, melanie lidman, menachem kahana, Noam Chomsky, Rick Salutin, yves engler, Z communications Michael Albert | Leave a comment

time traveler: forward to the past

Posted on September 1, 2011 by Dave

Ronald Mallett’s own theories now indicate that reversing past events is not possible. “Our universe will not be affected by what you do in the past,” he has asserted. This does look more like more of the same old ,same old … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Buster keaton, Carl Sagan, Davinci flying machines, einstein time travel, h.g. wells the time machine, james allen, jodie foster, jodie foster contact, kurt godel, ronald mallet, Stephen Hawking | Leave a comment

buster: salvaged by tried and true nobodies…

Posted on July 16, 2011 by Art

buster keaton… by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) i just wanted to share this 8×10 b&w glossy photo of buster keaton wearing one of ed ‘big daddy’ roth’s “surfink” tshirts. amazing, huh? seems like everybody was wearing those things back then, … Continue reading →

Posted in Madame Pickwick Weekend | Tagged alan schneider, art chantry, Buster keaton, buster keaton the general, buster keaton the railrodder, ed big daddy roth, ed roth, James mason, jessica handler, raymond rohauer, Richard Lester, Samuel Beckett, zero mostel | Leave a comment

“MYTHOLOGIES”:IN THE REALM OF BLOOD & CHOCOLATE TO THE Nth DEGREE

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Dave

With righteous indignation, structuralism, and something called semiotics, a multi-faceted Frenchmen named Roland Barthes captured a large audience with his social and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is a key figure in international intellectual life. He is one of the most … Continue reading →

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PIPSQUEAKS & POLITICAL GEEKS

Posted on June 11, 2010 by Dave

”New research published in the journal “Evolution and Human Behavior” concluded that short men tend to be more jealous. Why anyone chose to research this topic I have no idea. But what bugs me is the immediate relationship between the … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Barack Obama, British caricature, Buster keaton, Carla Bruni, Chaplin Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin, Danny DeVito, Eric Campbell, Gordon Brown, Henry Samuel, Jacques Chirac, James Gillray, Joe Pesci, Joes Pesci Casino, Johann Gottfried Schadow, Laurel and Hardy, Napoleon, Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon Complex, Paulette Godard, Randy Newman, Robert De Niro, Sarkozy, Tiny Sandford, William Pitt | Leave a comment

Southern Discomfort

Posted on November 10, 2009 by Dave

Throw Buster from the train.Faster than a speeding locomotive,the Superman of comedy knew the eccentric side of Southern living. Carson McCullers ”The Heart is A Lonely Hunter ” and Buster Keaton’s film , ”The General’ ( 1927 ),a newly released … Continue reading →