Thursday, February 12, 2015

Happy birthday to Abraham Lincoln a/k/a Lanky Link

By Pablo Fanque, Presidents Ed.







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Happy birthday Charles Darwin - Painting: Ode To Darwin

By Jack Brummet

In honor of Charles Darwin's birthday (February 12, 1809–April 19, 1882),  this is a painting I bought for $100 at a roadside stand in Jensen Beach, FLA in 2006 (It cost $200 to ship it home in its delicate, ornate frame).  "Ode To Darwin."




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Dwight Thompson in the Rolling Stone's video "Waiting for a friend"

By Jack Brummet, Music Ed.

Screen caps from my friend Dwight Thompson's appearance in the Rolling Stone video "Waiting On A Friend" (he's the one wearing the headband).  It was shot on a stoop in the East Village, where we worked and hung out, and where Dwight lived. . .





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Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Has anyone considered just having ‪#‎JonStewart‬ and ‪#‎BrianWilliams‬ do a job swap?

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Kurt Vonnegut's graphs of the world's most popular stories

By Jack Brummet, American Lit Ed.

Kurt Vonnegut once said: “The fundamental idea is that stories have shapes which can be drawn on graph paper, and that the shape of a given society’s stories is at least as interesting as the shape of its pots or spearheads,” This is similar to The Motif-Index and the Tale Type Index  Click here to read a fascinating article on Vonnegut's story graphs.

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Sunday, February 08, 2015