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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…
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Continue reading →: I Have Seen Every Episode Of …
This was posted to Facebook by my friend Kevin Carson; I repeat my reply to it here for Notablog readers … At 61, you bet I’ve seen too many to list, but here’s a sampling: The Fugitive; The Honeymooners; The X-Files; The Adventures of Superman; The Twilight Zone; Night Gallery;…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #1900
Song of the Day: One at a Time features the music of Michel Legrand and the lyrics of Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman. The theme here is from the 1969 film, “La Piscine,” which Legrand scored with his typical lush, jazzy flair. The soundtrack theme had no lyrics, though it…
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Continue reading →: Sidney Poitier, RIP
A truly wonderful actor, the first black man to win a “Best Actor” Oscar, Sidney Poitier, died today at the age of 94. I truly loved this man’s performances throughout the years—from his Oscar-winning turn in “Lillies of the Field” to his proud declaration in the 1967 film, “In the…
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Continue reading →: Coronavirus (36): Denialism = Death
Back on March 14, 2020, I began a series on the Coronavirus, which continued through 35 installments (the most recent of which was posted on November 10, 2021). This is not technically an installment of that series, but it addresses another kind of infection, which persists to this day among…
