Category Archives: Education

More Is Not Necessarily More

May 8, 2012 – 12:13 pm

A friend of mine recently castigated my writing with the criticism that I was a sloppy writer. He was speaking the truth and I said, “My father always thought that I was sloppy too.” “You end up writing too much.” Dannett was editor for a famed newspaper’s obit section. “Sometimes more is more.” “I wish [...]

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Noblesse Ne’er-Do-Wells

May 2, 2012 – 11:26 am

Two years ago the red shirts targeted the shopping malls of their political rivals, the yellow shirts. The drama between the classes was a mystery to most foreigners and a widely accepted way of life to the majority of Thais. I googled ‘thailand five families rule’ and the search engine offered thousands of five-star hotel [...]

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Casse Toi Brigitte

April 12, 2012 – 3:04 pm

Working at a nightclubs I met a lot of people; famous, infamous, and nobodies. Sometimes I had no idea who was who. One night at Hurrah I tried to stop Mick Jagger from entering Hurrah. The singer of the Rolling Stones was wearing a beard. His bodyguard Tony steered me right. At the Mudd Club [...]

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The 10 Unanswerables

March 25, 2012 – 7:15 pm

According to the Old Testament Moses descended from Mount Sinai with two stone tablets inscribed with 17 Commandments and although the adopted son of the pharoah was the only man in the crowd who could read, Yahweh deigned not to write in Egyptian, so there could have been a thousand commandments for all Moses or [...]

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Orgasms of Sneezes

March 6, 2012 – 8:02 pm

Der Speyer by FX Messerschmidt. Franz Xavier Messerschmidt stunned the Baroque Age with his sculptureS of contorted facial expressions. The artist lost favor with the Viennese court and he retreated to Swabian Alps to complete the 64 studies while studying necromancy under the influence of the pagan prophet Hermes Trismegistus. My Art 101 professor at [...]

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