The Anti-Jazz Of Epic Fury

The Anti-Jazz Of Epic Fury

 Referring to the character Horacio Oliveira in Julio Cortizar’s masterpiece novel Hopscotch, one reviewer wrote:He often asks himself how it is possible that humans as a genus, as a species, as an ensemble of civilizations, have arrived at the present day by...
In Like A Lion, Out Like A Lamb

In Like A Lion, Out Like A Lamb

   I’m hopelessly stuck in the sixties, seventies and eighties. That’s as far as I go unless I’m forced to function in the present as I am today. I’m pretty good with technology, I guess. I majored in math and economics. God know’s why, as they say, those who believe....
Alphabetical Index Of Posts

Alphabetical Index Of Posts

[Click on BLUE links to access any blog from the list]Napkin Art Gallery LINKBlog Posts in Alphabetical Order 4 Reviews For Behind The Locked Door86’dA Bit of An ItchA Dog in the FightA Doodle A DayA Few Comments About the Old Sea Gull Cellar BarA Few Things I Learned...
You Break It You Own it

You Break It You Own it

 With the news from Venezuela this morning (January 3rd, 2026) we refer you to our good friend over at Global Macro Monitor. The crib notes for those who won’t or can’t read this important post in all its detail are pasted below. For the entire article...
Trump’s Great Leap Backward

Trump’s Great Leap Backward

 There is a strange similarity of thinking between Trump’s tariff-driven bid to “restore” U.S. manufacturing and Mao Zedong’s ill-fated Great Leap Forward (1958-62). They do not share an ideology but a method: both are top-down attempts to force economic reality to...