MEXICO CITY — Tricks with water, how to make balloon animals, makeup technique — take notes, there will be a quiz. A festival offering a syllabus only a class full of clowns can truly appreciate opened this week in Mexico City, attracting magicians and jugglers to lectures with titles like “The Art of Making them…
Aug 9 is International Indigenous People's Day
(Do something nice for the indigenous people around you. If you are indigenous…try to not be too indignant. It’s your day!–cd) (I realize that the above picture is outrageous…please read the comment I’ve posted at the bottom of this story…the outrageous thing is that atrocities like that above are being committed every day in our…
Melanoma Is Epidemic. Or Is It? – New York Times
(I’ve got a new spot on my nose…maybe I should get screened?–cd) Melanoma Is Epidemic. Or Is It? – New York Times The nation is in the grip of what looks like a terrifying melanoma epidemic: melanoma is being diagnosed at more than double the rate it was in 1986, increasing faster than any other…
TallOrNot
(LOL…I am the same height as Tom Cruise and Tupac….taller than Stalin, Ghandi, and Churchill and shorter than Elvis and Erik Estrada….this is fun…cd) TallOrNot.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)
Marc Cohn Shot in Denver – Should have been Walking in Memphis
(Okay, maybe the headline is crass…I just can’t resist. He didn’t die. Funny, I drove Elizabeth Vargas around not too long ago when she was doing a story on Lost. One degree of seperation….cd) Singer Marc Cohn, best known for his 1991 hit “Walking in Memphis,” was shot Sunday in Denver, according to the Denver…
Chinese Rage Fukn Up Capitalism….Go Chinese!!!!
(Now if we could only get people in the west to see the inequity of modern life. In my opinion, we are too much under the influence of our mass opiates….If there is hope, perhaps it comes from China….cd) BEIJING (Reuters) – Thousands of residents of a central Chinese city ransacked government offices, trashed cars…
Why Great Minds Can't Grasp Consciousness
At a physics meeting last October, Nobel laureate David Gross outlined 25 questions in science that he thought physics might help answer. Nestled among queries about black holes and the nature of dark matter and dark energy were questions that wandered beyond the traditional bounds of physics to venture into areas typically associated with the…
Gov. Says State May Need To Lower Academic Standards –
(Am I the only person in Hawaii that sees how incredibly stupid this is? Improve the teaching quality by paying teachers better and you don’t have to lower the standards. By lowering the standards we are lowering our common ability to succeed….I can’t tell you how mad this kind of thing makes me and it…
The Irascible Prophet: V. S. Naipaul at Home – New York Times
I was first introduced to V.S. Naipaul in the Pual Thoreaux book, In Sir Vidia’s Shadow, which documented the turbulent friendship of the two men. Later I read “A Bend in the River” and fell in love with his writing and his philosophy. In this NYT article, I find myself agreeing with him again, even…
Tapes said to reveal Marilyn Monroe's secrets
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Marilyn Monroe fretted over a relationship with then-Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and had a one-night stand with actress Joan Crawford that left her cold. Monroe also thought sex with former spouse and playwright Arthur Miller was just “so-so” and maintained a deep affection for ex-husband Joe DiMaggio. But she credited…