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I’m going window-shopping! Why should you care?
Because I hope to reduce what seems to be an ontological anxiety (and a spurt of paranoia) among too many people about the effects of the internet and its potential to brainwash us into believing what we don’t believe. That … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Propaganda, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged google, internet sales, MhZ, MSNBC, shopping on line, TCM, the Bowery
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An eerie thing happened last night
I decided to watch The Wreck of the Mary Deare, a 1959 film I’d never seen but based on a book I’d possibly read by Hammond Innes, a British writer whose primary genre was mysterious adventure-thrillers. And I love mysterious … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, The Facts of Life
Tagged Charlton Heston, Eric Ambler, Gary Cooper, Hammond Innes, Richard Harris, Wreck of the Mary Deare
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Heroes, heretics and the life span of flowers
When I was 8, my family moved from a rental apartment in the South Bronx to a house in New Rochelle which my father had purchased (for $8,000, w/mortgage). I felt somewhat royal, until my third grade classmates at my … Continue reading
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Tagged annual flowers, heresy, heroes, perennial flowers
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