Over the weekend I read the following two news items: U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is practically alone on the job, working night and day to cope with the worst economic downturn in decades. Barack Obama’s offhand approach to Gordon Brown’s Washington visit last week came abo...

Section: Mr Nobody: With this heading I am reminded of the famous song of The Beatles from the 1960s called Nowhere Man . The opening lyrics of this famous song, written by the late John Lennon , are: He's a real nowhere Man, Sitting in his Nowhere Land, Making all his nowhere plans for nobody. Does...

Namco Bandai announced a new downloadable game for Xbox Live Arcade a while back ago which is also set due on the PS3. Here you see a screenshot from the game, where you take part in whooping undead ninjas butt with a kung fu style. With cooperative play, this game looks to have a big fun factor. Le...

There’s a moment in The Great Escape where you realize that Steve McQueen has been chosen for the role not just because of his sly devil-may-give-a-shit attitude, but also because the man represents America in the purest way possible. While the Brits are planning every detail and painstakingly...

And so this is Christmas Day - yet again.  I sit here at my blank computer screen and try to entice various words to take shape before my eyes.  I am tired and sleepy, though I have slept a lot.  Being too busy at work and the new medication I'm on are both conspiring to make me very ...

Living in a climate that gets snow once every two years or so, you forget what a pain in the butt the stuff can be.  Beautiful, sure, but always scraping it off your car, or having a chunk of it slide down into the open top of your short boots, or trying to drive on roads coated with the stuff and ...

I do not wish to live in the land of denial; in the country of delusion and especially not in the city of self-delusion.  I want no tawdry trinkets, no bright lights, nothing fast at all.  Instead, I want the slow acceptance of a body breaking down into age, letting go of all the surface s...

I Am 'I Don't Know What I Am' And You Are Afraid Of Me And So Am I by Tao Lin I am so afraid of myself that my afraidness scares you more than itscares me. I should rule your life because when I do you'll be so afraid ofmy afraidness that you'll smash your own face with your iPod tonightbecause why ...

A preliminary Note on Mary Mellon and Jung's Anti-Nazism: Mary Mellon passed away at the early age of 42 in October 1946.  She and her husband had done much negotiation with the publisher Kegan Paul to co-publish Jung's complete works in English on both sides of the Atlantic.  A heart atta...

Master, bless. My most precious ones, I have yet another glorious drawing to share with you today. This is Ben's seventh drawing. We are almost at the half-way mark. Here are his insights: The icon drawing. For this I wanted to do two things, I wanted to make it feel more like a church setting..... ...