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[Google Images] [ This interview took place at the BlogCast studios between Arthur Greebe-Streebling [AGS] and yours truly[BC], about a radical new idea for church worship…] BC: Good afternoon and welcome to the BlogCast Studio…Joining us in the studio here this afternoon is Arthur Greebe-Strebling AGS: Good afternoon BC: let’s get started shall we…. can you tell us something about the genesis of…
[Google Images] [Note : More and more, we are inclined to believe that the best 'philosophers' are those who don't consider themselves as such. This occasional Blog series continues with another of our favorite 'anti-heroes', Captain Yossarian*, and three of his most memorable utterances.....] #1: ' Let me see if I've got this straight: in order to be grounded, I've got to be crazy and I must be…
[Poem by Mary Oliver*] “I know when I am writing well that I am writing with more than the sum of my acquired knowledge, skill, and experience; with something from outside myself. Inspiration, the muse experience, is like telepathy. Nowadays one hardly dares to say that inexplicable phenomena exist…” John Fowles, Wormholes “ Your head is humming and it won't go, in case you don't know The piper's…
[Google Images] [Notes: [a] Born June 24, 1842; died 1914 [Mexico]; [b] American editorialist, journalist, short story writer & fabulist. Master satirist; [c] Best short story "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"; [d] influenced by Poe, Twain, Voltaire, Swift...revered by HL Mencken.] 5. Bierce: Acquaintance--A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of…
[Google Images] Samuel Beckett, Dublin born Irish playwright/novelist, has been around the literary stage for almost 100+ years [plus or minus a few]. Undoubtedly, in my mind, his greatest contribution to the world of literature was his epic, two-act play of 'killing time without thought of injuring eternity', Waiting for Godot. I have always wondered what Beckett might have written in a third…
[Google Images] Anthony the ant was having dinner one night when Gottfried the grasshopper hopped in. 'Lookee here!' he chirped, holding two tickets in his hand. 'Enlighten me,' Anthony said, drolly. 'I won 2 tickets on the Insect Sweepstakes,' Gottfried continued. 'I entered our names when we went to see Anshrink, the mystical firefly recently, and I won,' he beamed. 'Tickets to what?' Anthony…
[Google Images] "..and I sat there before his sanity I was holding back from crying, he saw my complications, and he mirrored me back simplified..." Joni Mitchell, Refuge of the Roads https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qGTeMBNuGM " ..and you couldn't see a city on that marble bowling ball, or a forest, or a highway, or me least of all..." [ibid] I went out to find my self the other day. I wondered…
[Google Images] ..."those also serve....**" He: [to my waitress] Will you be our waitress and bring us two coffees...we've already got our food but we have no coffee.....[waitress leaves to find their waiter] She: [whispers] We could just ask for the check and leave ...I mean we are al..... He: There are two coffees there[points]. On the counter. They've been sitting there for all of five…
[Google Images] ...an occasional series looking back... A young boy stared through the gathering darkness at his music master. The concert was over and the boy was waiting to be picked up. The sounds of the concert music were still alive and humming in the music master's head, when the boy broke the silence. 'Who's idea was it to ticket the three performances, without charging?' he inquired. The…
[Google Images] ...for EJA... The flaxen haired girl tugged at Kinch's sleeve, with all the urgency that a seven year old can muster. 'Kinch?' 'Yes...you tugged...' 'Can I ask you a question?' 'Of course...you always have questions...it's that imagination of yours...' '...the one you are in charge of...' '..that's right...and don't forget it!' Kinch chuckled. She smiled a smile that belied her…
[Google Images] "...even donkeys know that straw is more valuable than gold..' [Heraclitus] ..in his final act, the Alchemist systematically gathered, all the gold in our galaxy.. and beyond-- transmuted it, partially annealed, made it molten liquid dreams.. then poured it, uncongealed, down the world's throat...
