Quote for Today: Bill Watterson
“How come we play war and not peace?” “Too few role models.” ―Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
The Shadow of Innocence: Villainous by Paul Constantakis
Children are often characterized as innocent, but watching them play reveals otherwise. Deep down, aren’t we all a bit villainous? A sleeping boy lies peacefully in his room, but all …
Quote for Today: Eula Biss
British researchers recently found that girls between the ages of seven and eleven harbor surprisingly strong feelings of dislike for their Barbie dolls, with no other toy or brand name …
Quote for Today: Robert Fanney
I can hear your whisper and distant mutter. I can smell your damp on the breeze and in the sky I see the halo of your violence. Storm I know …
Quote for Today: Utah Phillips
I didn’t know what exhausted me emotionally until that moment, and I realized that the experience of being a soldier, with unlimited license for excess, excessive violence, excessive sex, was …
Quote for Today: Pablo Picasso
Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is only …
Quote for Today: Henri Nouwen
Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared. —Henri Nouwen
Playful Depths: I’m a Cyborg, but That’s OK
Are humor and honesty effective in dealing with death and mental illness? Are we held back by propriety and clichés? When the white coats take away Young-Goon’s grandmother, who believes …
Quote for Today: Henry David Thoreau
One day when I went out to my wood-pile, or rather my pile of stumps, I observed two large ants, the one red, the other much larger, nearly half an …
Gang Tension in Baltimore: 12 O’clock Boys Trailer
This is the trailer for Lofty Nathan’s documentary, 12 O’clock Boys. A thirteen year old boy, Pug, growing up in Baltimore joins an infamous motorcycle gang openly defying the police. The movie …