The whacky circus music and Waits accustomed minstrel role is all here. You know good writing in a song when you have great characterization in few short words, but it’s elusive enough to impel the reader to interpret it based…
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Earthly Powers (1980)- Anthony Burgess
The local bookstore near where I live has mostly books written in Spanish, but there is a classic English Literature section with thousands of titles to choose from. I miss my Kindle e-reader which decided one day it wouldn’t recharge…
Cavalleria Rusticana Intermezzo (1890)- Pietro Mascagni
It’s difficult to imagine this most charming piece of music is the result of a competition won. A young Italian composer Mascagni (pictured above) who hadn’t had an Opera performed on stage (and hence eligible) entered the Milanese competition by…
5/4 – 11/4/21 incl. Fructose, The Band & Dostoevsky
Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world. Peter Attia – The Drive Podcast – #87—Rick Johnson, MD: Fructose—the common link in hypertension, insulin resistance, T2D, & obesity? Audio podcast at Peter…
‘We require more Mindfulness and Discipline’ – Daniel Schmachtenber
Don’t skip this post or you will miss a great Poem. I wrote in a previous post that my favourite philosophical debate was Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson arguing ‘What is True’. Since its release it has become widely recognised…
Tagged with: Bret Weinstein, Daniel Schmachtenberger, discipline, mindfulness
Posted in News, politics, Reflections
Posted in News, politics, Reflections
Laundering a false piece of News – The Washington Post
I used to admire the Washington Post (WP) because of how they were represented in All The Presidents Men by exposing the Republican shenanigans in 1972 involving the invasion of the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, not to mention…
Why Doesn’t Nearly anyone or the Press Care about the Origin of COVID 19?
In 2019, China under the US Trump leadership was losing the Tariff war and suffering economically to not put a finer word on it, and most remarkably since the Pandemic and onwards – 2020, China have attained positive economic growth…
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Catch the Wind (1965) – Donovan
This song like any other entered my prepubescent teenhood as they all do, but none other besides ‘Catch the Wind‘ was as powerful on my psyche or upon how I should orientate myself like ‘Catch The Wind‘. I wrote in…
The Hugh Jackman Interview on the Tim Ferriss podcast
Yesterday morning I was trying to spice things up a bit by changing my morning routine. We are in strict quarantine here in Bogotá, Colombia, and my sector will be in it until the 18th of January. We have been…
Tagged with: Dorothy Walton, Hugh Jackman, Jordan Peterson, Tim Ferriss
Posted in Movies and TV, politics, Reflections
Posted in Movies and TV, politics, Reflections
Reactions to the ‘Christopher Hitchens on Big Tech Censorship’ DarkHorse Clip
Years before I encountered the erudite discussions of the Weinsteins or any of the Intellectual Dark Web (IDW) participants, I was drawn to watching presentations by the 4 Horseman – the almost now defunct Atheist counter culture-culture phenomenon. What drew…
Tagged with: Brett Weinstein, Christopher hitchens, DarkHorse, Internet Censorship
Posted in politics
Posted in politics
