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Continue reading →: Pastis Casts Pearls Left and Right
Comics Flash! Stephan Pastis continues to trigger folks left and right in “Pearls Before Swine“! And as pointed out on my Facebook thread, the creator of “The Family Circus” (Bil Keane, and now his son Jeff) and Pastis are friends and collaborate on parodies. Others have pointed out the obvious…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #1903 & #1904
Songs of the Day: Dawgma / Swing ’39 [YouTube link] are two songs that were performed back-to-back on “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” in support of the 1978 quintet album, “Hot Dawg,” featuring David Grisman on lead mandolin, Mark O’Connor on guitar, Mike Marshall on rhythm mandolin, Rob Wasserman…
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Continue reading →: Remembering Hiromi Shinya
Back in December 2021, I shared my very personal thoughts on Hiromi Shinya, a trailblazing doctor who saved my life—and the lives of countless numbers of people through his remarkable innovations in endoscopic medicine. Today, his daughter, Erica Shinya Kin, posted an obituary through legacy.com on the New York Times.…
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Continue reading →: Another Side to Eric Fleischmann: Soy! Live!
My friend Eric Fleischmann has published widely at the site of Center for a Stateless Society, including, recently, some very fine, original essays on the thought of individualist anarchist Laurence Labadie. I have previously written about his work on Notablog, here and here (where he critiqued my monograph, “Ayn Rand,…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #1902
Song of the Day: Paradise by the Dashboard Light, words and music by Jim Steinman, is a piece of musical theater that became a staple of classic rock radio when it was released in 1978 as the third single off the album, “Bat Out of Hell“, the 1977 debut album…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #1901
Song of the Day: Light Switch, words and music by JKash, Jake Torrey, and Charlie Puth, is the lead single from Puth’s forthcoming album, “Charlie“. This one has been in the making on TikTok for months on end. The video is an uptempo “exercise” in fun. “You turn me on…
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Continue reading →: Kafka, The Girl, and the Doll …
H/T to my friend Larry Abrams; there’s even an illustrated book about this tale. Kafka, the year before his death at 40. At 40, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who never married and had no children, walked through the park in Berlin when he met a girl who was crying because she…
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Continue reading →: Scholarly Publishing Collective Launches – JARS Free Till March 31st!
A Major Announcement Today: The Scholarly Publishing Collective (the Collective) is pleased to announce that its online content platform is now live, with content from over 130 journals published by Michigan State University Press, Penn State University Press, SBL Press, and the University of Illinois Press. Through the Collective, managed…
Chris Sciabarra, April 2022 Coney Island Parachute Jump, Brooklyn, New York
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