LEARNING CURVE ON THE ECLIPTIC

Watching President Obama deliver the State of the Union address on Tuesday evening, two oft-repeated words began to irk me a lot: "mid...

Much as I doubt that astrology/zodiac signs can influence a person's appearance to any great extent, or at all, I have to admit that the...

President Obama will deliver his State of the Union address tonight to the first Republican-controlled Congress of his presidency. White Ho...

Keeping in mind the previous post's main theme: fictional attempt to change history, in particular to prevent a corporate oligarchy fro...

We're on our first month of Netflixing, and discovering all manner of delights! We've binge-watched the first season of True Dete...

No pretty pictures today...because Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs . These two didn't produce much that was pretty, though they ...

I have a slim volume titled Dictionary for the Disenchanted , written by Bernard Rosenberg published in 1972. The blurb on the book-jacket f...

I'm not one of those serial complaint makers to manufacturers or retailers - but more power to 'em - I'd join them more often if...

We watched a 1945 movie, Rhapsody in Blue on TCM the other night. It's the story of George Gershwin's rise to fame. Oscar Levant,...

The "Je suis Charlie" thing must have surely run its course. The issue has been debated, written about, conspiracised and general...

Names. Our own special "labels". Husband occasionally draws my attention to names of young people in some team or school class me...

Yet another artist new to me, John August Swanson. He'll have a birthday coming up on Sunday. He was born in Los Angeles on 11 January...

Another year, another tragedy - and within a week! The shocking murders of twelve people, including four well-known cartoonists, at the off...

A little two-way experimentation today with the natal chart of a woman who (if her husband's association with Jeffrey Epstein doesn...

I'd never heard of Jeffrey Epstein until reading about the "scandale du jour" at the weekend. Epstein's Wiki page. See...

Jeanne Dixon was born this day, January 5, in 1904. She became one of America's best-known psychics during the twentieth century. She...