Archive for April, 2011
Photo diary: experiments in PhotoBooth
April 12, 2011
Theater review: THE BOOK OF MORMON
April 12, 2011A whole bunch of new shows are opening this week, and I’m still catching up from week before last. My review of The Book of Mormon just went up on CultureVulture.net. Check it out and let me know what you think, f**ker.
In last week’s New Yorker…
April 11, 2011…which was the first issue I read in its digital version (on my iPad) while vacationing in Vieques… the pieces that grabbed me were:
- Ken Auletta’s profile of Wall Street Journal editor Robert Thomson, a close friend of Rupert Murdoch’s
- Laura Miller’s story on fantasy writer George R. R. Martin (most famous for A Game of Thrones) and the ruckus he’s created among his fan base by not finishing the latest book in his series
- Tad Friend’s piece about Anna Faris, an actress I’ve never seen but who sounds pretty funny
- Keith Ridgway’s short story, “Goo Book”
Unfortunately, you have to be a subscriber to read this online.
But I can share with you my favorite cartoon:
Quote of the day: ANGER
April 8, 2011ANGER
Q: Aren’t you angry on behalf of the millions of people around the world who have been killed in our name? Aren’t you angry about the villages that have been napalmed, the jungles defoliated, the cities incinerated, the innocents massacred?
I am indeed outraged by these things, but I think outrage is different from anger. What do Buddha, Jesus, Sun Tzu, Seneca, Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Schweitzer, martial-arts philosophy, and West Point have in common? They all taught me that anger is dangerous. Outrage is my conscience saying, This is wrong! When outrage is not supported by a foundation of patience and empathy for all sides, it quickly descends into yelling, resentment, and a shutting down of reason, which doesn’t effectively advance the cause of peace. We can spark people’s outrage without inciting their anger. So, yes, let’s all be outraged by these things but let’s channel our outrage into productive action.
The way you get rid of anger is through understanding. As Gene Knudsen Hoffman, founder of Compassionate Listening, said, “An enemy is someone whose story you haven’t heard.” The reason I’m not angry at conservatives is because I’ve lived my whole life around them and don’t see them as bad people. They are not the enemy. My opponents are ignorance, greed, and hatred, which seem to have taken these people hostage.
— Paul Chappell, author of Will War Ever End? A Soldier’s Vision of Peace for the 21st Century, interviewed in The Sun
Photo diary: a few shots of Vieques
April 8, 2011
another eye opens 