Please Say Something - Full Length from David OReilly on Vimeo. David O’Reilly’s Please Say Something is one of the highlights of this year’s Floating World Animation Fest.��� The deceptively archaic polygon style actually provides a very emotional and cinematic experience for the viewer.��� This poignant and moving short film tells the story of a troubled [...]

…Saw it from a hill in the Golan, but still. DATELINE: A kibbutz in Northern Israel.���This is gonna be���quick because I’m paying by the minute and also Shabbat starts soon, which seems to be a sort of big deal holiday in this country, which���is kind of cool���given that they do it every damn...

June 10 — GUSTAVE COURBET Anarchist painter, Proudhonist, Parisian Communard. The Meeting or Good Day, Monsieur Courbet JUNE 10, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS *Festival of the Forgotten. ALSO ON JUNE 10 IN HISTORY… 1682 — First tornado witnessed by whites in New World hits New Haven, Connecticut...

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Today's Featured Book of Color, Pick of the Day is When Heart Turns Rock Solid.

When Heart Turns Rock Solid is an anthropological look at three Puerto Rican brothers, Fausto, Sammy, and Julio and their experiences with drugs, work, school, family and prison. Black writes about the experienced he gained studying these men for eighteen years from Springfield, Mass. He gained the trust of the Puerto Rican community and is able to give an interesting perspective on this group of people.

Blurred and Spacey By Nabob Shineywater Originally published in Arthur No. 25 (October 2006) Sandy Bull Still Valentine’s Day 1969: Live at the Matrix, San Francisco (Water) When I was living in Point Reyes, my closest friends became people in their sixties. They would share stories with me as I...

I was working out with a new trainer today, name of Nick, a favorite name of mine. Fifteen years younger than me, really cute, covered in tats. I was trying to impress him. At one point he said, “OK, Rocky, let’s go”, as we went on to do some other tortuous exersize. Toward the end [...]

So I tell you, this blogging-and-being-a-new-dad thing is tough, tougher than I thought. And just as I was entertaining thoughts of beginning this year's holiday hiatus earlier than usual, a lifeline came my way in the form of Katherine Taylor,...

DECEMBER 1 — ERNST TOLLER Leader of the Munich “soviet” of 1919. Playwright, bohemian, hounded to suicide by the Nazis. “Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.” DECEMBER 1 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS INTERNATIONAL PRISONERS...