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Things Are Not What They Appear To Be
Wherein your correspondent talks of propaganda, faulty perception, the art of magic, Whit Haydn’s theory of conjuring, suspension of disbelief, deception, Buddhist philosophy, and the need to doubt.
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Roswell
Rena del Cid and Toni Lindgren get stuck in the spooky New Mexico town when their van breaks down, and make a song out of it.
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Painting The Town
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This showed up in our e-mailbox yesterday. I have no idea who it is from, but I guess it’s from a fan of our Arts Express Magazine and radio show. Thank you, whoever you are!
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The Big One
Wise Man Didn’t Know They Were Bringing Gifts
Buy A Gun For Your Son
Monday morning, Tom Paxton, one of the best of the political songwriters of the 60s and afterwards, sings a song for Pete Seeger in 1965 about buying war toys. Little did Tom or Pete realize that the problem of war toys would be fully solved in our time by banning toy guns for children and insisting that they use real ones.
Thanks to Mitchel Cohen for pointing out this video.
Thanks to YouTuber funkydudesupreme
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Growing Pains
Cards To Pocket
Guard Cat
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This cat was making it clear to me that he too had his eye on the young bird flitting in the bushes near us.
Marine Park Salt Marsh
Brooklyn, New York
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Lalena
Anyone remember this Donovan song? Is it the saddest song in the world?
Thanks to YouTuber Sky Vibes
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Every American Rom-Com Set In Ireland
#Mew, Too
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The Grey Catbirds were plentiful this week at the Salt Marsh–and noisy!
Marine Park Salt Marsh
Brooklyn, New York
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Even Educated Fleas Do It
Monday morning, a young Josh takes Mr. Porter’s words to heart.
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Street Games
Street busking is an ancient trade, going back at least to medieval and Renaissance times, with actors and entertainers displaced by enclosure and plague making their living on the streets, dependent on their spectators for their livelihood. Their descendants are still among us today, and modern-day busker Todd Various is one of the best I have ever seen. The cups and balls is the bread and butter of the traveling magician, illustrated in Renaissance woodcuts, but Todd’s execution of it is so sublime, and his manner with an audience is so thoroughly engaging and cunningly crafted, that one wants to reach into the video and put a couple of dollars into his hat.
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“A Spectre is Haunting Europe…”
It’s May, and May brings up thoughts of Mayday and revolution and Karl Marx’s birthday, May 5,1818, so I thought it might be worthwhile to read from the surprisingly readable Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels.
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Crab Dinner
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The Yellow-crowned Night Heron has returned to Marine Park, digging for the plentiful fiddler crabs by the shore.
Marine Park Salt Marsh
Brooklyn, New York
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3 Levels of Ain’t No Sunshine With Mary Spender
That’s Life
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Schenectady Avenue,
Brooklyn, New York
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First Day On The Guillotine
Ventura Highway
Monday morning, Chase Eagleson and Josh Turner so damned mellow that you want to strangle them.
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Every Jack The Ripper Documentary
The versatile and humorous Eleanor Morton takes us down a road we’ve been many times before.
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The Silk Stocking Sisters
In 1954, the Supreme Court issued their ruling on Brown vs. Board of Education, which was supposed to end segregation in US public schools. While that struggle was most visible in the South, it was occurring in different ways up North. In her book, Desegregation of the New York City Schools: A Story of The Silk Stocking Sisters, author Dr. Theresa Canada was part of a desegregation experiment herself as a student in NYC in the early 1960s.Through her own example and the oral histories of others, A Story of The Silk Stocking Sisters provides insight into the slow process of desegregation and eventual re-segregation within the New York City Public Schools during that time and the lessons learned. I was happy to speak with Dr. Theresa Canada about her experiences.
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So This Is What They Meant By Highway Robbery
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West 51st Street
New York, New York
