July 1, 2022
Here’s a recent interview that introduces you to my hot-off-the-presses book, Tricking Power into Performing Acts of Love. Don’t click that, CLICK THIS!
I keep saying that it’s time we talk more about what might be distant visions of a more perfect society…I think that’s the ongoing American dream. So I’m giving the mic to a good friend and guest blogger Paul Luczak, who takes a pragmatic view in describing the closest we’re likely to get now and…
And more of me talkin’ ’bout it coming up this July…. Harry Langdon is the forgotten superstar of slapstick, whose popularity rivaled Charlie Chaplin’s, Harold Lloyd’s and Buster Keaton’s in the 1920s. He frequently evoked an overgrown child in his mannerisms, cherubic yet pre-moral. Many consider his best films to be The Strong Man (1926),…
Sun Ra, Part 2 From the early 1950s until 1982, Sun Ra and the various configurations of his big band released, by some scholars’ count, more record albums than anyone else. Few of those albums were insignificant. One could debate which of the first four albums—Sound of Joy; Jazz by Sun Ra, Vol. 1; Super-Sonic…
Sun Ra Is Coming To The Party! Rumors of his presence are subject to indeterminacy. Sun Ra, Part 1 Overwhelmed by a game that has been played all around the planet, with Africa colonized and Africans enslaved by France, Great Britain, Portugal, Italy, the United Kingdom, the United State, Germany, Belgium, and the ancient Greeks…
This is how we partied in 2018, at the book launch party for Disruptive Play: The Trickster in Politics and Culture. And lest we forget, Godfather II and The Empire Strikes Back were as good or better than the blockbusters that preceded them. Please don’t block THIS buster, and come to the Book LaunchTalkParty for Tricking Power into Performing Acts of…
Well are you comin’? Are You Gonna Be There (at the Love-In?) And Laura Nyro sings A little magic, a little kindness, and ain’t that sweet-eyed blindness good to me… And Shep sez A little vaudeville, a few laughs, a real conversation, some insights, some music… …Take your mind out for spin at the Book LaunchTalkParty for…