I miss my cat.
Kit Knightly
He was in a tree the first time I saw him. It wasn’t a big tree, but he wasn’t a big cat. Barely more than a kitten, really, stubby-tailed...
Fakes and Forgeries
Francis O'Neill
One evening, a lady who was new to my drawing class tentatively mentioned that her mother-in-law was writing a book on a Rubens painting in the National Gallery that...
5 Masterpieces of Contemporary American Cinema: Beyond The Crucible
David Penner
In part one of this series, we discussed a number of films which encapsulate the depravity of an America enslaved to unbridled corporate power, and how many of our...
Let Me Now Praise James Agee
Edward Curtin
On the Romantic poet John Keats’ tombstone in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome are these words, which he chose: “HERE LIES ONE WHOSE NAME WAS WRIT IN WATER.” His...
Gatsby Meets Nietzsche on the Train to Town
Edward Curtin
“Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past. What might have been and what has been Point to...
Wozzeck’s Nightmare
Todd Hayen
The Canadian Opera Company is just finishing up their run of one of the 20th Century’s most intriguing operas, Alban Berg’s Wozzeck (1925), adapted from Georg Büchner’s play Woyzeck....
At the Lost & Found
Edward Curtin
My dear mother, who had an artistic temperament that tended at times toward the sentimental, liked to call me a contrarian. She was right. I think she liked but...
Revolutionising the Self
Colin Todhunter
Bindu Art School in Chengalpattu, a couple of hours by road from Chennai in South India, was set up in 2005 in the Bharatapuram leprosy colony. It was started...
The Season for Living
Sinéad Murphy
In October 2020, Bob Moran published a cartoon privately on social media. Bob was still employed by The Telegraph newspaper, though he would soon be sacked from this position....
REVIEW: The Primordial Code – The Burning Essence
Carol Brouillet
Directed by Marijn Poels. The embedded video is the YouTube version, the film is also available on Rumble. Both versions have full subtitles in English, German and Dutch. This...
“People’s Choice”
Jordan Henderson
Jordan Henderson lives in the Northwest of the United States. He works in oil paints, and charcoals. A portfolio of his works can be viewed at either of his...
Patrick’s Endgame When Words Fall on Deaf Ears
Edward Curtin
“I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything anymore, teach me others. Or let me be silent.” Samuel Becket, Endgame Before he went to Rockaway Beach...
The Face
Kit Knightly
The spooky season is upon us, and so I thought I would treat you (or trick you) to a short story I wrote several years ago. Happy Halloween. *...
The Free Soul of a Genius: Kris Kristofferson
Edward Curtin
“He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sun rise.” William Blake, Eternity “But...
Self Reliance
Todd Hayen
I was first introduced to the brilliance of Ralph Waldo Emerson when studying the principles of Science of Mind over 20 years ago. His essay “Self Reliance” written in 1841...
The Hidden Messages of the Power Elite’s Cultural Apparatus
Edward Curtin
To be crucified is to suffer and die slowly and agonizingly. It was a common form of execution in the ancient world. It is generally associated with Rome’s killing...
Sick, and Sick of It All
Edward Curtin Sometimes it takes our bodies to return us to our souls. And our little pains to remind us of the indescribable pain of the savage killing and...
Daydreaming While Reading Jonathan Crary’s 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
Edward Curtin “Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, The death of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, Chief...
“Peace,War, and 9/11”: A Cinematic Portrait of Graeme MacQueen, A Warrior for Peace
Edward Curtin It is one thing to read a review of this important and compelling film – a tour de force – and another to watch it. The former...
WATCH: I Read Yuval Noah Harari’s Book (So You Don’t Have To!)
You may think you know what transhumanist propaganda WEF minion Yuval Noah Harari is spreading, but if you haven’t read his book you don’t know the half of it!...
