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Archives for March, 2011

My View on the Romanian History and Culture

Posted by  on Thursday, March 31st 2011     

Ancient Times The space that is now known as Romania (generally marked by the Carpathian Mountains, the Danube and the Black Sea) has been a multicultural melting pot from Antiquity, long before its existence as a national state. The original inhabitants of the land were the Dacians (part of the Thracian cultural family, a very [...]

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::::: Revolutions & Principles :::::

Posted by  on Thursday, March 31st 2011     

::::: Revolutions & Principles ::::: (12.09.10)   Man made is, A monetary system, Does that make it an, Unnatural or, Natural cataclysm, When men and women and children, Are intentionally starved of, The very resources that, God has given us to survive,   It is like men are trying, To destroy one another, To deny [...]

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Solo

Posted by  on Wednesday, March 30th 2011     

Swish-wumph. “I am the walrus.” Swish-wumph. “I am the walrus.” Swish-wumph. “I am the walrus.” What’s that supposed to mean? Swish-wumph. “It’s my mantra.” Your mantra?  That’s a stupid mantra, Denny.  ”I am the Walrus?” “It keeps me going.” Swish-wumph. Swish-wumph. You’ve been climbing for a bit now, man.  This is spring snow, and it’s [...]

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The Penny Illustrated Paper: Cheap but Chic

Posted by  on Wednesday, March 30th 2011     

For about half a century, Londoners were given the possibility to get a week’s worth of entertainment for only one dime. This was The Penny Illustrated Paper. Born in 1861 after the Repeal of Paper Duties act, and with slight name changes – but nothing important enough to alter its identity, it was one the [...]

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Harlequin and the PIP Ep. 5: Witnessing the Pantos

Posted by  on Tuesday, March 29th 2011     

Pantomime, as a direct institutionalized descendent of the marketplace carnivalesque, is very much celebrated and applauded in the pages of the P.I.P., from the beginnings of the Penny Illustrated Paper, towards the last couple of decades of the nineteenth century. This ritual of folklore laughter, a very much controlled chaos gathers children and parents in [...]

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House of Blues

Posted by  on Monday, March 28th 2011     

Where there’s plenty of bad news, which the lost girl at the Honky Tonk piano wails about, tearing your heart out, as she sings her tales of a cold and heartless world, amidst the drunken toasts, smary jokes, cigarette smoke, asking what can you do when no one follows the Golden rule?  Or where can you [...]

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Harlequin and the PIP Ep. 4: The PIP Likes Carnivals

Posted by  on Sunday, March 27th 2011     

Why did the P.I.P. like carnivals so much?

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::::: One Coup One Too :::::

Posted by  on Wednesday, March 23rd 2011     

One Coup One Too (11.20.09)   An Ode to the Establishment, With the power to threaten, Worldwide economic collapse and, The intent to deliver, When the people are hungry for change yet, So unprepared and unforgiving, There is no understanding, Calamities are induced and, Survival is increasingly reduced, To desperation,   ‘The American Dream’ without [...]

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All the Pretty Ballerinas

Posted by  on Monday, March 21st 2011     

The whirl of white dresses between the matrix of mirrors, morph into a wreath of white ashes in Lonigan’s reveries, or visions of angels amidst a holocaust, leaping, twirling, pirouetting … Sitting on the floor in a corner of the dance studio, Lonigan draws circles, spirals, parabolas on his ragged sketch pad, trying to capture [...]

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Our Next Trillion Dollars

Posted by  on Sunday, March 13th 2011     

Our current spending on the Iraq War from a 2009 report posted to the National Priorities Project: “Meanwhile, the President’s fiscal year 2009 budget proposes an additional $70 billion in war-related spending, on top of the $102.4 billion the Administration continues to pursue for fiscal year 2008. The amount requested for fiscal year 2009 is [...]

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