SEEING PAST RED: July 2008

Friday, July 25, 2008

I DO BELIEVE

http://www.towleroad.com/2008/07/apollo-14-veter.html

Sunday, July 20, 2008

There is nobody less qualified to admonish individuals on their behavior than this biggoted, misogynist, anti-future, apologist, materialist creature! Radical Islam falls into second place behind this 2000 year old white-washed world cult. I'd follow Tom Cruise first. Ick!
Sell some real estate and art and feed the poor as Christ taught. The church is within, not without holding a whip!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25754069

Saturday, July 19, 2008

COMING SOON:

SEEING PAST RED: BEYOND AMERICA'S CATASTROPHIC DISTRACTIONS

RSC

http://www.whatsonstage.com/index.php?pg=207&story=E8821188903894

IMPRIMIS

REALITY CHECK-

"Kansas is ready to lead us singing into the apocalypse. It invites us all to join in, to lay down our lives so that others might cash in at the top; to renounce forever our middle-American prosperity in pursuit of a crimson fantasy of middle-American righteousness."
-Thomas Frank

"The overflowing of opinion and sentiment pouring into a media-sterilized world through the blogosphere is the last breathing remnant of American rebellion!"

STAY GOLD...

Nature's first green is gold-
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower
But only for an hour...
As leaf subsides to leaf,
So Eden sank to grief.
As dawn goes down to day,
Nothing gold can stay.
-Robert Frost

BEWITCHED

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

POWERPOINT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Tufte

MINIMALIZE

out w tv

up w hulu

friends

symphony

travel

Sunday, July 13, 2008

AD ASTRA PER ASPERA

Latin for: "To the stars through difficulty"~

This is the hearty pioneer motto of my home state of Kansas, and while I have transcended my birthplace in many ways, I retain this phrase as I do the beautiful color, openness and freedom of the prairie where I grew up. As anyone could most likely tell from my interests expressed in the content of this blog, I do in fact believe that we should all always reach for the stars, and especially when faced with circumstances that are truly difficult in times like the present.

This mantra is a guiding element of science fiction, but also of the fantasy and mythological genres too. It is synergistic to note this connection between future and past and all the everyday life found in between. And it is especially good to also have it intertwined with classical drama through links to Shakespeare- specifically Hamlet- who David Tennant is playing now, Richard Burton played then and also joined Richard Harris in playing the Lord of Camelot below...

"Resolved: I am a King, not a man
And a very civilized King.
Could it possibly be civilized to love myself above all?
Could it possibly be civilized to destroy the thing I love,
What of their pain and their torment?
Did they ask for this calamity?
Can passion be selected?
Is there any doubt of their devotion to me or to my Table?
My God, Excalibur, I shall be a King!
This is the time of King Arthur and we shall reach for the stars!
This is the time of King Arthur- when violence is not strength,
And compassion is not weakness!
We are civilized, resolved- We shall go through this together-
They, you and I,
And may God have mercy on us all!"

Also helpful to remember- in the face of the nameless multitudes- the power of One-

"We are less than a drop in the great blue motion of the sunlit sea,
But it seems that some of the drops do sparkle...
Some of them DO sparkle!
Run boy! Run!!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SxvcX_nxD4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q19Ce_4ypY