Continue Reading The Sparrow(s) Sparrows seem to be a popular topic for poetry. From Catullus to Keats, Bill Collins to Charles Bukowski they appear as various…
Continue Reading Pulp, alas not Fiction Hate to admit it, but when everyone swooned for John Travolta in Pulp Fiction I had a crush on Harvey Keitel. Riddle…
Continue Reading In the Name of Manifest Destiny… How can you not be drawn to a movie review of an epic about the massacre of American Indians titled Serious Reservations?…
Continue Reading The Green Book The 2019 Oscar winning movie has been, shall we say, quite controversial. Here is a summary of much that was deemed…
Continue Reading Das doppelte Lottchen Das doppelte Lottchen was one of the most famous children’s books of all time in Germany. It was written by one of…
Continue Reading A new documentary at PIFF The Portland International Film Festival – PIFF – has a long (42 years and counting) and honorable tradition of focusing on controversial…
Continue Reading Railroads, relegated Perhaps it’s fitting to end the week with musings on trains, a medium that connects. The thoughts were triggered by the news…
Continue Reading Playing the Bridge Yup, not playing bridge, but playing THE bridge is today’s topic. In reference to what we’ve focussed on earlier this week I…
Continue Reading The Final Frontier That phrase originated with Star Trek, right? Space, where no man had gone before? Today it’s two women’s turn: two artists who have…
Continue Reading Connecting the Dots Still thinking about walls. Or, more precisely, about borders. They rule politics, these days, or the talk about them does. Case in…
