THERE IS NO SECRET There is no fine line between being creative and not being creative. There are gradations, however, and these can change. That […]
Year: 2022
Third Album Is Secret Treasure In The History Of The Electric Light Orchestra
Years before they gorgeously greeted Mr. Blue Sky and bade a kiss off to the Evil Woman, the Electric Light Orchestra hinted at those future […]
Charlaine Harris, A Review of the Sookie Stackhouse Series
I’m not sure why we find vampires so interesting. In literature they go back to the 1720s in the pre-Austro-Hungarian Empire. But their real popularity […]
How to Entertain Guest in Japan
One of the best ways to entertain guest in Japan would be to give them a chance to ride on the shinkansen (bullet train), show […]
A Life Of Lorenzo Da Ponte:Talent Flies; Practical Reason Walks
Among the world’s favorite operas, we find three of them with a libretto penned by Lorenzo Da Ponte and music by none other than the […]
Can The Idea Of America Be Saved?
By almost any measure one could say that America’s best days have passed. We are hopelessly mired in debt. Millions of able-bodied Americans are unemployed […]