Selling The Stories Of Our Lives: Technology and Privacy (Part One)
Sean Murphy*Recent events reminded me that the issues of privacy are not recent. Indeed, the notion of "other people" knowing what you are doing at all times was very much a…
Mad Props to Open Culture
In the past week, I've seen links to not one, but two amazing clips. I want to give all the credit to Open Culture, so please visit them for the…
The Bittersweet Science, Part Four: Four Kings (Revisited)
Let's finish this four part post off by letting Kimball, and the Kings, do the talking. Duran was fifteen and walking his girlfriend home from a dance when they encountered…
The Howling or, 100 Years of the Big Bad Wolf (Revisited)
Who's afraid of the big, bad Wolf? Plenty of people, and for good reason. Fortunately for us, we are not sketchy record company executives or anyone else who may have…
The Bittersweet Science, Part Three: The Fight (Revisited)
Let's end the suspense and get this out of the way right up front: Hagler vs. Hearns on April 15, 1985 is the best sporting event I've ever witnessed. First,…
The Bittersweet Science, Part Two: Getting Acquainted with the Late George Kimball (Revisited)
Every so often there is a confluence of events that, if you're lucky or perceptive enough, leads to a revelation. Other times there are just the happy accidents that function…
The Bittersweet Science, Part One (Revisited)
It probably says something about evolution that the younger generations see the future as expansive, malleable and positive while the older generations eventually—and inexorably—see the past as safer, simpler and…
Creativity vs. Cancer
Humanity, creativity and compassion in the face of suffering: that's where I find my faith. More on this story, HERE. It reminds me of THIS and THIS and THIS (more, below): I’m trying to…
Jean Stapleton, R.I.P.
This one hurts, especially for any of us who came of age (or were alive, period) in the '70s. If you were alive in the '70s, you knew about Jean…