Do you know why scenes or even just shots of freeways so seldom appear in the movies we watch? Because…
On Saturday, the town next to us, Cambridge, New York, put on its annual Christmas breakfast in the main theater of its old Opera House, Hubbard Hall. Cambridge is a farming town in a farming economy that died and is just beginning to be re-born. The town occupies a landscape of tender hollows and gentle hills that rise toward the Green Mountains of Vermont twenty miles east. This topography allowed a…
Even if the so-called economy were “recovering,” the people of the USA would be stuck in a physical setting for daily life that…
Those inhabiting the economic wish-space got a case of the vapors last week when the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) published an annual…
With little to do while waiting for something possibly very bad to happen people tend to get jokey. That was how I…
There’s a good reason why nobody is paying attention to the election this year except the people who, one way or another, get…
History is in a bad mood, as reflected in its acting troupe, the human race. What goes for the micro of an individual human personality…
The press wet its small-clothes over Mitt Romney’s ebullience in last Thursday’s so-called debate, as these joint interview contests are styled these days.…
I drove the eight miles from Cambridge to Greenwich, New York, around eight o’clock and the night was bell-jar clear. A scrim of deepest blue sky backlit the landscape of tender hills and valleys while on the ground I wended the twisting two-lane state highway 372 with my brights amplifying the yellow road signs and the iridescent lines on the pavement, alert for deer, who can kill you. The Talking Heads spastically warbled one…
So many shoes are dropping out there that reality is starting to look and sound like the tap-line in a Busby Berkeley production number. The meme-scape, too, is humming with viral transmissions of dire doings. Is JP Morgan unwinding like a 1911 knitted woolen Yale varsity sweater? Did it booby-trap the credit default swap universe in the process, and is that getting ready to blow? The whole world is hanging by its fingernails, refusing to be dragged into the future.