 Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| I want to take a look inside, but I’m scared of what I’ll see.
–Stone River |
 Splash of Color 3 |
Category: Art
Mar 23 2011
Muse in the Morning
Mar 22 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. –Anne Sexton |
 Splash of Color 2 |
Mar 21 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| For a man needs only to be turned around once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost…Not ’til we are lost do we begin to find ourselves.
–Henry David Thoreau |
 Splash of Color |
Mar 19 2011
Popular Culture (Music AND TeeVee) 20110318: Iconic Themes Part I
I love to be able to fuse two topics into one! Since almost the beginning of TeeVee, there has been theme music for its programs. Many of you will remember lots of them, but there were some programs without music, the very first TeeVee image being one of them, although it got a theme later. Does that pique your interest?
TeeVee became widely available in the late 1940s, in large part because of the revolutionary improvements in electronics because of the necessity of the war effort. However, there is a backstory to that as well: after the war was over, there was a flood of components that were military surplus, available for cents on the dollar, to be had by manufacturers.
TeeVee had been invented long before World War II, but the components were rare and expensive. Because of the glut of surplus components, TeeVee became widely available, but that is more of a Pique the Geek piece.
Mar 18 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group?
–Saul Bellow |
 Stylish 4 |
Mar 17 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Resistance is the secret of joy!
–Alice Walker |
 Stylish 3 |
Mar 16 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Congratulate yourselves if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.
–Anonymous |
 Stylish 2 |
Mar 15 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Congratulate yourselves if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.
–Anonymous |
 Stylish |
Mar 14 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me [the same as] everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
–ee cummings |
 Buglike |
Mar 12 2011
Popular Culture (Music) 20110311: The Zombies
One might expect that a band that was formed FIFTY YEARS ago this year might have some significant connexions with others, and one would be correct. That is a long time ago, and The Zombies were early, British, and quite good. They were not as prolific as many other bands, and almost became victims of their own success in a manner of speaking.
Interestingly, The Zombies were always more popular in the United States than they were in the United Kingdom. I have no explanation for that other than the hypothesis that when they were getting “hot”, other bands like The Who, The Rolling Stones, and The Beatles were getting even hotter in the UK.
Please come with me to review the career of this very, very underrated British Invasion band. As a preview to Pique the Geek for Sunday evening at 9:00 PM Eastern, the topic for the evening will be a new installment to my off and on series about firearms, this time about the propellants black powder and the modern smokeless powders, with a nod to Pryodex(r), a more modern substitute for black powder.
Mar 11 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Must you value what others value, avoid what others avoid? How ridiculous! –Lao Tzu |
 Color Splash 3 |
Mar 10 2011
Muse in the Morning
| When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you. –Lao Tzu |
 Color Splash 2 |