Everybody is chewing up a theory or two, but most will tell you it is all for nothing. Now who could that Charlie Chaplin time traveler really be. There are four obvious choices. 1- H.G. Wells (the father of the time machine)2-Tom Baker (Dr. Who, time lord)3-Steve Jobs (the creator of perhaps the iTime)4-Al Calavicci […]
The reason I bought an iPad was to declutter my book and magazine collection. I am starting to find the whole downloading of books takes some time. Maybe I am just frustrated in the high speed world where things should be faster and my iPad is a tad slower when downloading. The magazines offered are […]
Just when you thought you knew all there was to know about Marilyn Monroe. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters explores her tormented muse in prose and writing. We know very little about the actress from her own words. We get to know her on a whole new level from the archive of the actress’s own […]
Paris and New York City share something in common. They both have Statues of Liberty. Everything else is up for grabs. Vahram Muratyan shares with us the difference between both and the uniqueness at the same time. Tony M.If this article made you think, brought back a memory, or made you see something differently, I’d […]
The world is abuzz with the latest Charlie Chaplin time traveler using a cell phone found in a previously unreleased footage of Chaplin’s 1928 film ‘The Circus’. The mysterious individual can now be seen for the first time in another Charlie Chaplin classic, Modern Times. Why do you think they used Charlie Chaplin as a […]
In Praise of Copying by Marcus Boon. A very interesting free read. Go ahead and copy. Copying seems to manifest as a pressing issue at moments where there is a radical shift in societies. The Statute of Anne of 1709, the first copyright law, was in part a rearguard effort to protect the rights of […]
Cover songs come in all shapes and sizes. Many of them not so good, others much better than the original. Bob Dylan would be a perfect example. From Jimi Hendrix to the Byrds, they all covered his songs and made them better. Here is a recent example of John Velghe covering “I Wanna Be Your […]
Glenn Manucdoc of Moxy Creative showcases a captivating array of iconic clothing lines associated with some of the most prominent figures in the realm of rock music.
Margaret Atwood has nothing to prove, her illustrious writing career has earned earn many fans. Now she is a superhero designer on Twitter. She has fallen in love with Twitter and created two avatars for two of her fans. “I just thought it would be fun to draw some superhero costumes for them, as their […]
The thing about being dead is that you don’t come back. MySpace is trying to resurrect from internet death. It’s like everybody abandoned their space and went upstream to Facebook. One thing that MySpace had was music, it should metamorphose into a music site just for bands. MySpace has become the Betamax of the social […]
Art imitating life. Sterling’s Gold: Wit and Wisdom of an Ad Man is the best advice Roger Sterling can give the common man. A few “sterling” examples: When a man gets to a point in his life when his name’s on the building,he can get an unnatural sense of entitlement. The day you sign a […]
Some men like to dream big. In 1911, Dr T. Kennard Thomson wanted to expand New York City by 50 square miles. He wanted to fill neighboring waters with soil. Big dreams involve big money. The estimation of the project would cost between $50-100 million in 1916 terms. At the time, they had small pockets, […]