But this video cheers me up a little.    

The Talented-Person Blind Spot I’m betting you’re extremely good at something, perhaps at more than just one thing. Let’s face it: you’re talented – gifted, in fact – a classic overachiever. But the odds are 7 in 10 that it’s difficult for you to accept and believe these compliments. I say this because 70 percent […]

Buy the Book on Amazon  Richard Gary Brautigan (January 30, 1935 – ca. September 16, 1984) was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. His work often employs black comedy, parody, and satire. He is best known for his 1967 novel Trout Fishing in America. – WIKIPEDIA

The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah… Be bold. Let the strength of your desire give force and moment to your every step. Move with all of yourself. When you embark for strange places don’t leave any of yourself safely on shore. They may laugh at you if you don’t discover India. Let […]

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.

The author of Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes, played by Peter O’Toole – is in prison. A powerful scene.

 

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The Impossible Dream of America by Don Quixote

Don Kuhl Joyce Eisenbraun Cynthia Williamson Jack Warkenthien Bryan Nangle Curtis Knecht Aaron Bono Rob “Robo” Hendrickson Carolyn B. Smith Laura Gordos Ray Bard Mike Jenkins Dan Terrien Vi Wickam Hugh A. Benham Michael Zaplitny Shane Richardson Tobias Beckwith Jeff Sexton

Yes, there really is a dog.

The Impossible Dream of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Ben Franklin and Alexander Hamilton. September 17, 1787: When George Washington saw the Constitution of the United States of America finally adopted after four months of intense debate in Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania State House, he immediately went to a bookseller and paid 22 shillings, six pence […]

“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.” – Leonardo da Vinci

The author of Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes, played by Peter O’Toole – is in prison. A powerful scene.

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Propaganda and The Color of Light Sunlight is composed of red, green and blue light waves. Combine these together and you get white light. Remove the red from white light and you will no longer be able to see red in anything illuminated by that light. Red will no longer exist. Remove the blue and you […]

In 1983, 50 companies controlled 90% of media in the United States. Then came the Telecomunications Act of 1996 and a series of adjustments in the FCC’s regulations on media ownership during in the early 2000’s.  This is when we saw the rise of Clear Channel, recently renamed iHeart. So by 2012, that same 90% of all media was controlled […]

“Edward George Ruddy died today! Edward George Ruddy was the Chairman of the Board of the Union Broadcasting Systems, and he died at eleven o’clock this morning of a heart condition, and woe is us! We’re in a lot of trouble! So. A rich little man with white hair died. What has that got to […]

Belief is a Choice Each of us likes to think we believe what we believe because the evidence dictates it. But if that were true, wouldn’t each of us believe the same things? We call one person a romantic and another a realist, and we secretly think the realist to be more valuable, do we […]

Remember our list of books to read that will make you a better writer? Cognoscenti Jack Heald created a nifty order page at amazon.com that takes all the work out of finding and buying the best values on each of these books. Now is when you kneel, Jack. Yes, down on one knee, just like […]

Richard Gary Brautigan (January 30, 1935 – ca. September 16, 1984) was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. His work often employs black comedy, parody, and satire. He is best known for his 1967 novel Trout Fishing in America. – WIKIPEDIA

To be displayed in The Room of the Unknown Lost Boy in Wizard Academy’s House of the Lost Boys, these three photos were taken by Campus Chronicler Speedy Peacock on a single day in Austin during the Vietnam War. (L to R) (1.) LBJ, President of the United States – (2.) An unnamed girl in Zilker […]

 

The Kangaroo Recurrence Why do old songs pop into our heads? Unheard for decades – and often a song we never even liked – there it is, filling the echo chamber of the articulatory loop of working memory in the dorsolateral prefrontal association areas of our brains. “…smokin’ cigarettes and watchin’ Captain Kannnng-aroo, now don’t […]

This song by the Trashmen – brought to our attention by Brittington – gets weirder as you get deeper into it.  It was a hit in 1963. I promise I’m not making this up.

The Outsiders was first a book by S.E. Hinton, then a break-out movie for a number of young actors who would later become wildly famous. The movie was shot on location in Tulsa, mostly on Admiral Boulevard and alongside it, in the old neighborhoods that hide behind gravel parking lots where colorful old thugs sell mobile homes. […]

I climb wooden stairs to the trailer house office of a mobile home dealer on Admiral Boulevard. Standing on the cedar deck outside the glass door I see myself looking back at me, the sport coat I bought for 3 dollars at the Goodwill store, the briefcase I carry to look educated. Behind me is the […]

Forty-seven months later, I remember this class like it was yesterday. – Indy

First things first: If you can’t imagine yourself tearing up the streets in this whip without feeling embarrassed, then get out. Your ancestral bloodline is anemic, and you are dismissed. The Spectra does not tolerate weakness. As for the rest of you — put your helmets on, because I’ve got a metaphysical bomb to drop. […]

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