I am completely and totally in love with Adele — in the most honorable and humanistic way — and it is my delight to review her latest 21 album. Yes, Adele is a SuperGenius SuperStar from the UK and, yes, she is only 22 years old. Her voice is a throaty, smoky, raspy mix of the Bluesy heartache made famous by Fiona Apple, Rihanna and Janis Joplin.
Too often, when we place the self in the context of the greater world, we point outward instead of directing the fit inward. Today, I’d like to discuss the idea how learning civilizes you — the self — and not just the greater “ourselves.”
Continue reading → Unwittingly Taught, But Purposefully Caught: How Learning Civilizes You
Janna and I aren’t big on formal gift giving. We have a saying that is frequently expressed in our marriage: “Every day is your birthday.” That doesn’t mean we’re wild spenders — or that giving a “gift” to each other requires spending money — but it does change our perspective on the “Mandatory Holidays” that drive greeting card sales and generate increased prices for dining out while lowering prices on consumer goods like clothing.
Continue reading → Love by the Calendar: Grift in the Holidays Scam
I usually write 3,500 words a day for publication, six days a week. That daily effort averages out to a million words a year. Those writing numbers are numbing and they don’t include the daily grind of writing emails or crafting shopping lists or the rare, luxuriant, instance of love letter making.
Every couple of years or so, we receive a comment on an article that is both stunning and numbing. That sort of rendering comment reveals a new angle on an aging ideal that is both magnificently enlightening and intolerably human. Twelve hours ago, we received one of those comments on an article — The Uncanny and Homesick Sexual Longing — originally published on November 12, 2007.
We have always enjoyed reading Camille Paglia’s articles in Salon.com, but we have been stupefied the past year or so over her ongoing and irrational public crush on perpetual quitter Sarah Palin.
Continue reading → Paglia and Her Wounding Palin Infatuation
Would you want to invent a 24-hour woman? Would you mind molding your future wife out of silicone and wires? Le Trung found his fantasy woman in his hands built of bits of steel and a bucket of screws.
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