Buried in the flood of embedded MJ videos, I came across this gem… pre-Jackson Five.
There’s something wonderfully playful, direct, and sad about this clip. The kid’s got a long, strange history in front of him…
…but right now he’s just straight groovin’!

Excellent advice:
“you must have a room,or
a certain hour or so a day, where
you don’t know what was in the
newspapers that morning…
a place where you can simply
experience and bring forth
what you are and what you
might be”
Joseph Campbell

Bill Maher’s been on a roll. After taking to task Obama last week, he nails here another one, this time on the wider Democratic Party.
Is Maher a lone wolf right now? Or will others on the left get up the gull to call a spade a spade?

Here’s a great piece by Eric Neel about Phil Jackson, who Neel has been following since the beginning of the Playoffs.  Usually Phil is mocked for his lazier fair style because most people don’t understand how you can just smile and sit calmly as Kobe walks back to the bench fuming after forcing a tough […]

Buddy Guy gives an important history lesson..
and brooks no nonsense from certain elements in the crowd.

Epilogue to Rob Reimen’s book, Nobility of Spirit:
In an old European city, the poet, nintety years old and shackled to his bed but with a mind that is still clear, hears that his dearest woman friend has died. Czeslaw Milosz writes:
What did I learn from Jeanne Hersch?
1. That reason is a great gift from […]

I don’t disagree with anything this guy says.
Rock on.
(first seen on the great Kurangabaa blog ).