The Great American Trickster: Happy Birthday Bugs Bunny, Part 2
May 6, 2022 9:11 amWell are you comin’? Are You Gonna Be There (at the Love-In?) And Laura Nyro sings A little magic, a...
Tag Archive: Playfulness
The Most Famous Person to Never Become Famous
April 4, 2022 8:32 amComedy is the only thing I’ve been able to take seriously. ...
The Difference Between Playing and Playing Games
March 3, 2022 10:36 pm 2 CommentsI want to share the opening pages of “Disruptive Play: The Trickster in Politics and Culture” . . . I...
Tricking Power into Performing Acts of Love (Part 3)
February 19, 2022 6:42 am Leave your thoughtsSo how do power, playfulness, war, and the amoral stance of the Trickster intersect? Western civilization, in its drive to...
Tricking Power into Performing Acts of Love (Part 2)
February 18, 2022 11:09 am Leave your thoughtsLet us adopt the childlike belief in the antidotal properties of original play. That to be playful means not taking...
Tricking Power into Performing Acts of Love (Part 1)
February 17, 2022 1:29 pm Leave your thoughtsPower is a game. A game with predetermined losers. While survival and sustenance require some exercise of it, in the...