The Troubadour of the 60's is one year short to his diamond jubilee today exactly -- May 24, 1941 -- 74 years to be a exact. No, he isn't under 30 anymore, far from it, and with no direction home.
To celebrate this classic free-wheelin example of a Different Drummer, I copied his Keirsey Temperament Portrait from Keirsey.com
Watch and Observe a Composer in Action…
At age 14, violin virtuoso Ji-Hae Park was accepted to a prestigious music conservatory in Mainz, Germany – even though the school only accepted students 16 and older. By the time she was 17, a German foundation had lent Park a rare Guarneri violin to play, worth millions. But Park’s early fame took its toll.
“The violin which once meant everything to me became a grave burden,” she says in…
On Thursday, May 23 2013, I hosted an event at Academy of the Impossible called "Taking the Rape out of Culture". It was an open group brainstorm (with some breakout discussions as well) to map the component parts of rape culture - what does it look like in practice? What are the sub-concepts (or as I dubbed them, "subgenres") under the big umbrella of rape culture?
Part of an excerpt from Temple Grandin's new book:
If people can consciously recognize the strengths and weaknesses in their ways of thinking, they can then seek out the right kinds of minds for the right reasons. And if they do that, then they’re going to recognize that sometimes the right mind can belong only to an autistic brain.
May 20th, 2013
As most of you know, even if you are not in the United States, a backlash has come up against The Walt Disney Company.
A Voice for Men’s plans for world domination seem to have hit a little snag. Earlier today, the so-called “Men’s Human Rights” site -- which posts an open call to firebomb courthouses and police stations in its “Activism” section -- posted a most unusual article titled “A Very British Coup,” which detailed -- in a highly one-sided manner -- some rather nasty infighting in AFVM’s apparently quite tiny British satellite organization MRA London.
Some time ago, I wrote a piece titled "Me Biased Never" It didn't receive wide readership although I thought it covered the subject competently. Recent experiences have led me to revisit the subject with a side issue. Not just the issue of bias but another question. Moreover, I don't in the least pretend to have all the answers. However, “why is the right as feral as it is?”
