Half a century building a city while living in a tent. Although I left the friendly confines of NYC where I was born and raised, I still look forward to the Sunday NY Times as a wonderful weekend...
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Robots…
Can’t live with ‘em, can’t run away from ‘em Recently while doing nothing, which I do quite well, I was startled by a mechanical noise coming from my bedroom. Trusty broom in hand I ventured forth...
The Black Tom Munitions Explosions
The terrorist attack no one remembers There are moments in history that forever live in the culture. Likewise, there are those moments regardless of their immediate significance that dissolve quickly...
Let’s Break Up the Union
I live in a blue state and I’m all for it. You should avoid arguing with the intellectually challenged. When you get into it with the uninformed, the uneducated, or the just plain dumb, one has...
Alice Neel Lowered the Bar…Then Raised it Again
The Painter’s Painter no one remembers Portrait painting is one of the oldest forms of documentation which still exists today. Its subjects range from Royalty to Madmen, from the oldest and the dying...
Wild Swimming
A chilling form of rebellion At agnituslife, we feel we are all uber athletes. This is really another way of saying we are old folks who looking back on our athletic years and remember ourselves as...
At the Nexus of Creativity and Wackiness
Meet the Kiffness There’s a lot of musical talent out there, but only a minuscule percentage, either because of a lack of drive, luck, or resourcefulness, make it big. Most give up the chase...
Lenny Bruce
The one who started it all There is a fine line between heritage and lineage. Both are important, one no more than the other. Lineage is earned, while heritage is given. In both cases we always...
Providential Protection for Herschel Walker?
by Bill Wood Taking lying to an art form. You have to wonder if 19th century German chancellor Otto von Bismarck ever reached across the centuries and met Herschel Walker, the 1982 Heisman Trophy...
Exploring the True World
Articles against the fallacies of travel. Everywhere you turn some sales organization is telling you to travel. Take a ship, or a plane, take an adventure, ride a camel, sleep in a hut in Indonesia...
