Category: Self-exploration
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Three Mass Murders, Two Book Releases
I cannot help but comment on the recent mass shootings that took place in California. That they are tragic and appalling seems obvious. That the massacre in Monterey Park occurred at the beginning of the Chinese New Year appears ironic and disheartening. Contrast the Shakespearean horror of 11 dead, and others hospitalized with gunshot injuries,…
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At Long Last, A New Edition
“This was the climate when I first knew that I was attracted to men. It was simply unsafe to be a gay man who was ‘out’ in the world. It still is, to some degree – witness the Colorado Springs mass shooting and murder of five and wounding of 29 in a Gay bar. Couple…
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Godard, Fellini – and Symmetry in Marketing
The cinematic world lost one of the greatest French auteurs of all time with the death of Jean-Luc Godard by (legal) assisted suicide at 91. His 1960 masterpiece, “Breathless,” tops my list of familiar Godard films. It stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, with writing…
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Selection from “Drumbeats”– So Romantic
This week I have decided to give my loyal readers a selection from my Romantic Novel, “Drumbeats, Triumph Over Terror.” To set it up, “Ash” Ashton, a theater and opera director, mentors Jared Pleine, a younger singer that prefers his drums: Ash’s Los Angeles apartment, with a dining area off to…