We all experience guilt and shame, Terre Spencer writes, but do we even know what that means?
Archives for October 2011
Movies: Lenny Kravitz (@lennykravitz) and Amandla Stenberg Star in The Hunger Games
The famous singer and the child actor are showcased in new single character posters for the young adult novel adaptation.
Tools: Too Much Halloween Candy? Try the Switch Witch!
Here’s a strategy we use to cut down (or eliminate candy) at our house on Halloween. We take our son out to Trick or Treat just like everybody else. Then, when he has his giant bag of candy we ask him if he wants to give the candy to the Switch Witch who, in turn,…
Great Moments in Greatness: #Occupy Bel Air
Will Smith notes just how he became part of the 1% while we show how Jazzy Jeff became the 99%.
Close
My father always used to say, “Close only counts in horseshoes and golf.” What about life? In this weekend’s story, a man still in love with his ex-wife drops in on her at a bar.
A 100-Year Sentence: Finding the Light
Facing over a century behind bars, Roberto Wahid Lewis found a way to re-center himself and, eventually, start a new life on the outside.
“You Are Not Beautiful to Me. You Are Gorgeous to Me.”
It might be a cliche, Gordon Pearson writes, but beauty really is in the eye of the beholder.
It’s in the Eyes
The Kipling Effect
We all have art that we enjoy as art, but deplore as ideology. This sometimes creates a serious cognitive dissonance that I refer to as the Kipling Effect. I cite Kipling because he’s such a clear example. He was, legitimately, a brilliant writer. He was also, observably, extra-super militarist, imperialist, and racist, by the standards…
Ludwig III, Part 2: this I or he or it (the thing) which thinks
Professor Edgarstein squealed. A perfect paper. William Gibson meets Mel Gibson. Umberto Eco meets Marc Ecko. It was gritty and mean and dystopian and weirdly urban. A freshman wrote it? Not some rarefied tract in “Fibonacci Journ.”, not an illuminated scrap of analytic hand-wringing gracing the onion-skin pages of the “Denotational Biennial.” Jesus. Co-authored by…
Music: The Perfect Chord from @darrylzero: Fishbone
After a one-week absence, The Perfect Chord returns with a look at one of Black rock legends Fishbone’s more unheralded albums.
Opinion: The Commentary Track for the October 26th Buy Pile, Issue #15 [@cbr] “@Marvel Uber Alles”
An analysis of elements from Hannibal Tabu’s reviews column on Comic Book Resources looking at the power of myth and Matt Murdock’s blood stained smile.
Occupying the East Coast: Lose the Fear
At their roots, the Occupy movements are expressions of the rights of the 1st Amendment. The only thing that can stop them? Fear.
Webcomics: @world_of_Hurt: The Thrill Seekers #045, “Conversation Over” [#thenewblack]
World of Hurt is a webcomic created by Jay Potts, syndicated twice a week from its inception on Komplicated.com
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Letting Grandma Cut Loose-Roll Playing Games for the Kindergarten Set
Play as a powerful collaborative learning tool ……….. Play is a way to help children and parents be receptive to growth and learning across a range of parenting challenges/opportunities. In many cases, play can give you the outcome you are seeking with the full cooperation of your child. It’s just a question of trusting your…