Some of this happened and some of this didn’t. It’s all true. I was reading the Paris Review for the first time. It was late and I was inebriated and enthralled with a long-unpublished interview they did with Ray Bradbury. As a lover of both sci-fi and superb writing in general, Bradbury is one of …
Ravi Shankar performing live on the Dick Cavett show. Enjoy.
“Anyone who clings to the historically untrue — and — thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than …
At long last, Noir Films is pleased to present our third animated short, “What’s in a Name? by Dr. Hong Wang”!!! Hope y’all love it long time. Click here to view, or go to my “I Make Movies” page to see the entire Noir Films catalog. BE ADVISED – THIS VIDEO IS NOT ‘WORK SAFE’ …
This movie is a fantastic example of how a film can be great without pandering to intellectual sensibilities. The plot is simple – there’s a gang summit in NYC and something goes wrong. The protagonists, a street gang called ‘The Warriors’, are framed for the murder of Cyrus, the man who called the summit and …
In philosophical circles, Dave Chalmers is a bit of a rock star. This can largely be attributed to his book, “The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory”, in which he contended that a fundamental aspect to our mental lives was being ignored by philosophers and cognitive scientists. In a nutshell, he argued that …
As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates himself, the one and only wise man, according to the Delphic Oracle. Whenever he tried to do anything in public he had to break off amid general laughter. While he was philosophizing about clouds and ideas, measuring …
don’t know where to begin. not really going to try. it’s all a blur. something about the mental states of cats contributing to the meta consciousness of the united states, contending with a human version of this cat , a dream where I was somehow on a sheer granite mountain top in a bare ice-laden …
so I was joking with my mother the other day that I’m going to change my last name from Daedalus to Nippleblaster. stumbled onto this pic on the inteweb. now I’m only half joking.
A few of the women in my life are self-described feminists and sometimes they and I find ourselves in good-natured debates on the topic of gender politics. Most recently, it was about the controversy over some urinals (featured above). Their argument was that the urinals were somehow demeaning to women and I disagreed (the fact …
