Gabi Clayton I first heard about the word Schadenfreude on Boston Legal – one of my favorite television shows. “Schadenfreude” is the title of a Boston Legal episode wherein character Alan Shore (James Spader) uses the term in explaining why some defendants are convicted of an unrelated crime after having engaged in culturally unacceptable or possibly illegal …
“Listen, stories move in circles. They don’t go in straight lines. So it helps if you listen in circles because there are stories inside and stories between stories and finding your way through them is as easy and as hard as finding your way home. And part of the finding is the getting lost. And …
While I was in California visiting my family earlier this month my sister drove me down Florence Avenue in Sebastopol. WOW! There is some wonderful sculpture there! Mimi drove me back so I could take these photos: The sculptures are by Patrick Amiot and his wife Brigitte Laurent. They have a website with much more …
I was in Rohnert Park, California from October 11th to 16th. That’s north of San Francisco, near Santa Rosa. It was a trip planned to see my family – to celebrate my brother’s birthday on the 13th. He is 6 years younger than me and I am 54. You do the math. Michael’s wife Nita …
“My job was one of the most secretive,” writes Flores A. Forbes adding, “and to this day most of the people who were in the Party over the years had not a clue as to what I really did…” Years ago, Flores A. Forbes was the youngest member in the Black Panther Party’s central committee. …
Alec and I met Catherine for an early breakfast at Darby’s restaurant downtown. Later Alec and I went to some politial events. First in the early afternoon we went to a debate between three ‘minor party’ candidates for the U.S. Senate: Green Party candidate Aaron Dixon, Libertarian Party candidate Bruce Guthrie, and Independent Robin Adair. …
Ann Friedman, Alternet October 4, 2006: Some states just don’t know what to do with an “obscene device.” In The Dildo Diaries, Texans describe how they have to use the “it’s for educational purposes” excuse to justify their purchase of adult toys. The Dildo Diaries, edit is an eleven minute edit of a sixty three …
If democracy can be said to have temples, the Lincoln Memorial is our most sacred. You stand there silently contemplating the words that gave voice to Lincoln’s fierce determination to save the union—his resolve that “government of, by, and for the people shall not perish from the earth.” On this latest visit, I was overcome …