Monday, October 31, 2011

REDUX: A Real Brooklyn Ghost Story

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I have posted this before, the first time in the first year of Deep in the Heart of Brooklyn. Since it is my first and only experience with ...

7,000,000,000

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World population clocks - estimate that we will pass 7 billion at some point today here 7 Billion Actions - Making the world a better plac...
Friday, October 28, 2011

Friday On My Mind: And Now A Word from the Art World and Its Discontents

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 "For some years now, Mr. Bourriad wrote in a 1997 essay that has since become famous or infamous, depending on your perpsective, th...

NO MONEY AND BAD WEATHER: I SEE THE FUTURE AND IT LOOKS GRIM

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Nor'easter forecast for Saturday details here
Thursday, October 27, 2011

Occupied With Wall Street as the Dow Hits 12,000: From Uprising to Catalytic Institution

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Occupy Wall Street has gone from a shot in the dark promoted by a Canadian anti-corporate website, AdSense, to a First Amendment Protest, to...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Last Weekend Update: Bruce Springsteen Performed 25 Song Benefit at Asbury Park's Stone Pony

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So cool -- NJ.com reports that last Saturday night Bruce Springsteen, backed by a band which included E Streeters' Roy Bittan on keyboar...
Monday, October 24, 2011

Coda: Coney Island Retains Its Funkadelic Soul -- For Another Season

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It was a brisk and lovely weekend at the Coney Island Boardwalk. Breezy and chilly in spots, lovely in the sunlight. Part wood, part cobble...
Friday, October 21, 2011

It's Friday in New York (and Everywhere Else I Guess But You Get the Idea)

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How would Frank have viewed Occupy Wall Street?
Thursday, October 20, 2011

Thursday Morning: Gettin' On...

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Jovanotti - Serenata Rap 1994 More on Jovanotti (aka Lorenzo Cherubini) here Serenata Rap lyrics here
Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Occupied With Wall Street: Notes on a Popular Uprising

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Leave it to the Wall Street Journal: What percentage are you ? While evidently not a resident of or embedded in Occupy Wall Street at Zucc...
Sunday, October 16, 2011

Zizek at Zuccotti Park: Don't Be Afraid to Dream

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There is a danger. Don’t fall in love with yourselves. We have a nice time here. But remember, carnivals come cheap. What matters is the day...
Friday, October 14, 2011

Future Tense

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New York's Finest and Occupy Wall Street Protesters clash  here   Pat Buchanan views the end of American Exceptionalism as he predicts...
Thursday, October 13, 2011

News -- On the March

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21 Things You Didn't Know about Herman Cain here   Restaurant bans men from standing up to micturate  here
Wednesday, October 12, 2011

CODA: Faster than Light? Hold On There -- Not So Fast, Pardner

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Despite the previous reporting from the CERN Large Hadron Collider in Geneva which suggested that Flying Neutrinos -- I said Flying Neutri...
Tuesday, October 11, 2011

"The Mill and the Cross" by Lech Majewski

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Rutger Hauer as "Peasant Pieter (the Elder) Bruegel  Rutger Hauer, Lech Majewski, and Michael Yorke, during the making of "The Mi...