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The real "trick" on Halloween is watching American consumers shell out a soft 6 Billion dollars on costumes and Kit-Kats. The "souls" from Medieval Ireland and Scotland must be doing cartwheels in their graves watching the Colonist embellish some primitive … Continued
A friend of mine recently returned from the annual Duke Kahanamoku OceanFest Surfing competition at Waikiki Beach, Hawaii (August 17-25) where he served as one of the head graphic artists for the event. Waves are mysterious creatures and similar to … Continued
Maurice Sendak wrote the children's book and Caldecott Medal winner "Where the Wild Things Are" in 1963. It remains popular and was even made into a movie in 2009. Few know that Sendak's family was from Poland and many of … Continued
John Maynard Keynes was a famous economist who may have had an insight into the Law of Supply and Demand. Immanuel Kant was a Prussian philosopher who may had an insight into the ethics of duty and conscience. These 2 … Continued
One of my favorite movie songs is Carly Simon's "Coming Around Again" from movie Heartburn. This month the pure beauty of sport a la natural actually did "come around again" as a biddy basketball team of shoeless Mexican kids won … Continued
My friends just returned from teaching English as a Second Language to Chinese college students in Northeast China (about 5 hours from N. Korea.) Their daughter adopted the Chinese teenage fashionista statement of wearing lense-less glasses. Her dad, an optometrist … Continued
Slogging along with Einstein-like social satirist GK Chesterton, irony rules the day. And cleverly so… Reflecting on so-called "personal freedoms/rights," inevitably instead of allowing people to become more free to roller coaster around morally, thereby becoming more "human", these ever-morphing … Continued
As inspired by GK Chesterton in his brainiac book "Orthodoxy", I dial up Amiens Cathedral (in France) on You Tube. Holy Macaroni, what a "sheep shed!" Earthly adjectives fizzle quickly in describing this 13th century Gothic Cathedral. The open sanctuary … Continued
You have to admit, scissors are probably the coolest tool ever. Across the world, these clipper things have gotten more mileage using Archimedes Law of Leverage than any other piece of equipment.. They've been around for thousands of years. Da … Continued
Henry Ford said it wasn't necessary to know everything, just know the person who did know what he needed to know and then call him/her. Likewise, as we bumble along we need to know what personality this person is as … Continued