The Gods of Ignorance
Even in Vientiane, Laos where I am now it is possible to tie into the Internet and see what is …
Even in Vientiane, Laos where I am now it is possible to tie into the Internet and see what is …
Out of the ghastly big city of Bangkok to the sweet, old river-town of Louang Phrabang where the ‘low’ Lao …
I’ll be on a 5 week trip to South East Asia — Burma, Thailand. Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, north and …
Masaki Kobayashi’s war time epic, The Human Condition, at 9 hours and 45 minutes, in black and white, with subtitles …
I’ve really learned a lot viewing the three-part PBS series, The Abolitionists. Having a lived a life committed to nonviolence …
In our house television mostly serves as a movie screen — runs on French new-wave auteurs, old chestnuts from Hollywood’s …
Jaroslav Hašek’s The Good Soldier Švejk, ‘a certified idiot,’ tickles us into an anti-war, anti-militarism, anti-bureaucracy mood the more we read. Unlike …
Last week at one of Long Now Foundation’s ongoing, and always interesting, seminars two archaeologists, Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo, presented evidence …
Drift, by MSNBC’s popular news show host, Rachel Maddow, combines an easy and difficult read in one volume. Easy because …
1842 to 1880: what a forty years for readers of literary masterworks! Beginning with Gogol’s Dead Souls and ending with …
It has come again, that time of year in San Francisco. It promises to be crisp and blue, against …
If you live in the Bay Area and have long promised yourself to experience a Samuel Beckett play, whom you …