06 Mar Experience Mocha
A surreal visit to a Chinese coffee shop, made less believable by a brochure gained...
05 Mar Find your true voice as a writer
Finding one’s voice as a writer is the difficult but necessary first task facing every new author—spelling and grammar perhaps excepted. While there is no better or other way to become an authentic, original writer than to write, and write, and write...
26 Feb Beautiful Moments in Film #1: Dedication
Dedication (2007) by Justin Theroux Rudy: That's life Henry. Henry: Yep. Rudy: You know what life is? Henry: Life is a horrible little giggle in the midst of a forced death march towards hell. Rudy: No it isn't. Henry: An interminable wail of grief...
22 Feb Lion-sized love
[kml_flashembed movie="/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/lion-love.swf" width="420" height="400" wmode="transparent Awwwwww! King-sized cute more like it! An African lion in Colombia meets the woman who rescued him six years previously, bonding human style with a hug and a kiss. Tell me which animal is the “king of the beasts” again?...
21 Feb Search Engine Haiku
Found poetry is the rearrangement of words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages that are taken from other sources and reframed as poetry by changes in spacing and/or lines (and consequently meaning), or by altering the text by additions and/or deletions. The resulting poem can be...
19 Feb Today My Life’s Dream is Fulfilled
[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.reuters.com/resources/flash/includevideo.swf?edition=US&videoId=73309" width="344" height="320" wmode="transparent Backyard air travel available to all Indians In India air travel has never been so popular or affordable, an estimated 100 million traveling aboard this modern antithesis of the traditional bullock cart last year, but yogic flying and astral traveling aside, only...
05 Feb Conan O’Brien vs Stephen Colbert vs Jon Stewart
[kml_flashembed movie="http://widgets.nbc.com/o/4727a250e66f9723/47a81ada79dd6ba1" width="384" height="316" wmode="transparent I normally try to be inspiring on this site. I write about topics like ‘meditation,’ ‘meditation and me,’ and sometimes ‘meditation and the rest of the world.’ I guess I like meditation—I've been doing it for near fifteen years now—and I...