Jul
29
Super Good Awesome Great New Book
July 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment
We intellectual types and artistic folk (please note that I am rolling my eyes as I type that) focus on appreciating good art so much of the time, but what about the bad art? Ok, so reading a bad book wastes a lot of our precious time so let’s not bother with that if we [...]
Jul
22
My Mother and The Hippy Mafia
July 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment
What’s your mother reading this summer? My mom happens to be reading the book Orange Sunshine – a book about the LSD culture in the ’60s and a group of smugglers and hippy-philosophers called the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, of which Timothy Leary was an integral part. This choice of summer reading may seem out [...]
Jul
15
WikiUniversity?
July 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Music went digital, books are going digital, and now, your kid’s college education is going digital? …Since 2001, a growing movement — from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford, and hundreds of other universities worldwide to insurgent bloggers and entrepreneurs barely out of school themselves — is looking to social media to transform higher education. [...]
Jul
8
“The Poetry Revolution is Now”
July 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment
“The Poetry Revolution is Now” Those are words I heard spoken on NPR this morning as I was driving my daughter to preschool. And I agree, although I have no idea by what dark magic poetry manages to remain alive. So many people would love to see it dead on the curb, a victim of [...]
Jul
1
Ephemera is transitory written and printed matter not intended to be retained or preserved
July 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment
[Ephemera is transitory written and printed matter not intended to be retained or preserved...] Need to jump start your muse? Have a hankering for some bright ideas? Need some fuel to spark your creativity drive? It’s summer now and high time we sit on a lounge chair by the pool with our notebooks (or iPads, [...]