My main beef with other libertarians is that so many of us (them?) seem to place a disproportionate emphasis on individualism in the sense that they see their own success as being the result of either their unique skills and / or talents and the failure of others as being the result of their respective lack of effort and “natural-born” abilities. Read more »
One of the outcomes of the previously mentioned Space Jam is getting to know a number of poems I didn't know. I shall list and discuss them here. Read more »
I've recently had a chance to see The Lesson by Eugene Ionesco. I took it. Read more »
If by Rudyard Kipling was one of my favourite poems in my childhood. Since then, my views have changed. It seems that the story behind the poem is not all that compelling. Read more »
Isabella Rossellini is Ingrid Bergman's daughter. Lately, she has been transforming her strong sense of entitlement coming from Ingrid's adulation into "educational porn" short films. Read more »
We'll be presenting poetry regularly on this blog and we'll try to do this every Monday. The poets will most often be foreign (i.e., non-English) and hopefully a surprise for the reader. Read more »
When we think of Malcolm McDowell, we tend to think mostly of his work in either Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange (1971) or even Caligula. Yet his most important work is, in my eyes, the movie O Lucky Man! (1973) a movie based on his idea where he is also credited as a writer, followed by his first true movie, If…. (1968). Read more »
With the Oscars approaching, we decided to make a list of the movies nominated, including their IMDB ratings and Amazon links. Read more »
It is extremely difficult to pay your respects to an author whose book you haven't read. None of us has read catcher in the rye
