Happy Birthday to the Creator of Rock ‘n’ Roll!
October 25, 2022 2:41 pm Leave your thoughtsHappy Birthday, Chuck Berry! Shed 96 Tears for 96 years. That’s how old Chuck Berry would be on October 18,...
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor. Trickster, Taika, Loki, Thor.1
September 13, 2022 1:49 pm Leave your thoughtsHave a good time. And don’t take anything too seriously… — Jerry Garcia [Part 1] I have a longstanding debate...
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor. Trickster, Taika, Loki Thor.2
September 12, 2022 1:51 pm Leave your thoughts[Part 2] The Trickster tongue speaks comedy, and Marvel movies increase the dose every year, where comedy ranks second only...
Said The Joker to The Batman: Why So Serious? [Dave Chappelle on the Tightrope]
September 1, 2022 7:41 am Leave your thoughtsConrad Veidt in The Man Who Laughs (1928), as a disfigured young outcast servant whose face is cut into a...
The Ineffable Power of Humor
August 11, 2022 5:39 pm Leave your thoughtsMy brain got picked, and look what they found! Your. Laughter. Matters!...
Part 3: Commerce Nullifies Art…Again
July 27, 2022 9:27 am Leave your thoughtsConsidered the greatest artist of the twentieth century, Picasso produced paintings and sculptures that frequently embodied playfulness…but he put art...