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Video: Natural Playground

Here’s the upside to global warming. . Directed and Performed by Ben Leclair Co-produced by Kevin Calvez Filmed by Blackbird productions & Ian Curry . Ben LeClair . . Email … Continue reading

October 22, 2016 · 2 Comments

Video: Stephen Fry loathes dancing. See his rant performed – in dance

  . ‘Not so much an accomplishment as an affliction…’ Stephen Fry Hates Dancing turns a monologue by the British comedian into a celebration of the very art he despises. … Continue reading

October 22, 2016 · 1 Comment

Jose Padua: The National Anthem

I am writing this because my world is being made uninhabitable by assholes. I am standing still on a manhole cover that’s about to explode upward as the shoreline moves … Continue reading

October 17, 2016 · 4 Comments

Michael Moore: Is Trump Purposely Sabotaging His Campaign?

Friends, Donald Trump never actually wanted to be President of the United States. I know this for a fact. I’m not going to say how I know it. I’m not … Continue reading

October 4, 2016 · 5 Comments

Video: Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories

. In this short video, Kurt Vonnegut shows us the visual shapes of three archetypal stories. .  

October 2, 2016 · 1 Comment

Philip Levine: Animals Are Passing From Our Lives

It’s wonderful how I jog on four honed-down ivory toes my massive buttocks slipping like oiled parts with each light step. I’m to market. I can smell the sour, grooved … Continue reading

September 28, 2016 · 2 Comments

Marc Jampole: KABLAM!!

Debate predictions: Media face 3 moments of truth & the “birther” becomes a quitter.  The news media would like to cast the upcoming presidential debates as an Armageddon-like battle for … Continue reading

September 22, 2016 · Leave a comment

Ellen McGrath Smith: Politics

Thank you, red, blue, and purple map on TV, for showing us as we truly are, smaller than the people in the Lexus ad, smaller when separated from the whole; … Continue reading

September 19, 2016 · Leave a comment

Video: ‘The Kid’ by Charlie Chaplin (complete feature film)

  Email subscribers may click on the title of this article to watch the complete version of the film. The Kid is a 1921 American silent film written, produced, and … Continue reading

September 18, 2016 · 1 Comment

Jose Padua: A Song for Sunshine

This evening when I got home from the store I laid a bag down on the kitchen table and said to my wife and daughter, “Check this out.” My wife … Continue reading

August 22, 2016 · 2 Comments

John Samuel Tieman: Altimeter

during a walk at 10 or 11,000′ I sit on a rock breathless and silent because I am old and fat and climbing Aspen Mountain so I want to write … Continue reading

August 16, 2016 · Leave a comment

Video: The Philosophy of Bill Murray — Wisecrack Edition

This short video produced by Wisecrack explores the comedic style of Bill Murray and its philosophical implications. Murray’s understated self-aware irony has turned him into a post-modern cult figure. Audiences love … Continue reading

August 13, 2016 · 1 Comment

Michael Moore: 5 Ways To Make Sure Trump Loses

Over the past few days, a number of polls have come out showing Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump nationally by double digits, including in blue collar states like Michigan (10%) … Continue reading

August 10, 2016 · 11 Comments

Audio: Peter Matthiessen performs a story

The author of “The Snow Leopard” and “Shadow Country,” both National Book Award winners, invites us to his house in Sagaponack, on Long Island, serving tea in Blue Willow cups. … Continue reading

July 30, 2016 · Leave a comment

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