It’s been 10 months since COVID-19 became visible all around us and we were forced to accept this new normal. We were welcomed with sanitizers and masks while staying six feet away from each other became part of the culture. With more restrictions in some areas, it feels normal to stay in our homes and […]
Chapter 2 It was just after breakfast, Charles’ favorite time of day. On any day, he would sit on his balcony and look out over the city. As a boy, he had wondered why the royal bed-chamber looked directly down on an open marketplace, the sounds of barking stall keepers, the smells of livestock. […]
As Adolf Hitler served as a muse for German artist John Heartfield, Donald J. Trump has been one for me. President Barack Obama was making great strides towards bringing people together after he was elected, although the deep seeds of hate for civil debate of opposing views still very much existed. In 2009, Dr. George […]
When I was a child, I loved watching anime. Every day after school, I would watch shows such as Dragon Ball Z, Pokemon, etc. While these shows captured my imagination, I noticed many of these shows perpetuated racial stereotypes. For example, in Dragon Ball Z, the character of Mr. Popo strongly resembles a character out […]
Salvador Dali, “The Dance”, 1957. NY Times. How dangerous and compromising it is. It looks so enticing with how welcoming it portrays itself, flaunting what it has to offer. You look at it long enough, and eventually it’ll pull you in for the kill. Once you’re in, you’re seduced with every advance it gives you. […]
SHARED SPACES, 2019 revision. We know them well. I’m taken to the green and gritty parks we’ve laid upon, venues where music and meaning rings through the ears straight to the core to reverberate, forums for cultivated interests – the more obscure, the better.. they would be nothing if not for collective being. Shared spaces […]
Too many of us complain that pop music content is nothing but crap. Even though not everybody agrees with that, I think we can all agree it offers a high dosage of mindless content and that it has been, for a long time, present at the top of the music charts in several countries. Why […]
