Your life may turn out to be just a dream; that’s okay. Create your own story. Make of it what you will. Always be respectful of your co-authors. Pray for inspired criticism and the wisdom to recognise it. And, whenever you get the chance, dream a little dream of peace.
Category Archives: Arts
A Story Untitled
Home Grown
Have you ever traveled to a faraway place only to run into a friend or neighbour in a café or train station? So, what do people almost invariably say to each other when they encounter this spooky coincidence?
“My goodness, it’s a small world.”
“Yes, it certainly is,” comes the response.
Inventions like radio, the telephone, jet travel and the Internet have all teamed up with coincidence to make the Earth seem even smaller, but I think we all know that our planet isn’t actually shrinking. On the other hand, though, it could very well be trending in the opposite direction.
If you haven’t done so already, you should have a look at Neal Adams’ 2005 animation of the expansion of Earth over hundreds of millions of years.
More on this important topic later…
Coalition of the Blade
Leveraging the vast resource base of this generally under-developed continent, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has been working hard to create a socialist ‘Bolivarian’ revolution in South and Central America. A constant thorn in the backside of the ‘imperialist’ United States, Hugo has lately been ostentatiously doling out copies of the sword once wielded by the El Libertador (Simón Bolívar) to his leftist compatriots.
Read about the original sword in this New York Times article from 1990.
The sword was returned to the Bolivar Museum on February 1, 1991 by the M-19 rebels who purloined the prized artifact seventeen years earlier.
So, is the sword in the Chavez-Correa image actually the real one?
UPDATE: Yes. After close inspection of the images, it appears that the sword shown in both the Raul Castro and Rafael Correa images is the genuine article. Apparently, after Castro and Chavez left grubby fingerprints on the beloved weapon, a decision was taken to don gloves a week later when Correa was invited to also inspect the original — before leaving with his own copy.
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Do the Neutron Dance
I have no idea what the lyrics in this song
are saying, but visually, it’s hysterical.
— video via “tanziran” via You(Tube)™ —
Rising Stars
This incredible video by William Castleman shows more than a few stars rising during the course of a Texas night. You can clearly see the bright, bushy centre of our Milky Way galaxy slide across the screen before the dawn comes.
I never tire of watching it.
Maybe listen to something from stillstream.com while viewing. And if you would like even better definition, you can download a higher resolution version from photographer William Castleman (link below).
Our galaxy is thought to contain between 200-400 billion stars.
Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party
from William Castleman
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