I’m at The Village Coffee House in West Lafayette, IN and it is a slow connection (see below), but a most tolerable environment… And the coffee is good. Purdue is wireless but I’m not sure that I will be here long enough to make it worthwhile to register as a guest and get a passworded […]
Art, Angst & Zeitgeist
Our fearless, or perhaps foolish, editor once again manages to rant about interconnections among the strangest things. Kurosawa, current political zeitgeist and neurobiology. There’s no explaining it. Just read it. One shift in perspective, one single act, can change everything. Many folks apparently found this out for the first time on September 11th, 2001. Nothing I’m […]
Vinegar Visions: On the Bashing of Boomers, Joe Queenen, and Mid-life Crises
Being a Boomer is not about having a mid-life crisis. Joe Queenen apparently does not understand this. I’m sitting in a Borders Books drinking a regular coffee and not a decaf latte, thank you very much, and skimming through a copy of Balsamic Dreams, Joe’s most recent book. I refuse to even contemplate purchase of […]
The Women of Rock
While 70s music may be known for splintering off an incredibly diverse number of styles and interpretations of rock and roll, it should be known for the decade when women rockers came into their own. Well okay maybe recognition of them didn’t really happen until a bit later… but that is when late boomer women […]
A Lifetime of Violence: Terrorism, Rates of Information Flow and Baby Boomers
One of the trends that distinguishes Baby Boomers, especially the later born Boomers, from other cohorts is the unique role senseless violence, in general, and terrorism, in particular, played in the development of our psyches. People born in the late 50s and early 60s grew up with an intimate, personal relationship with violence that was […]
Gilda's Gift of Laughter
Gilda Radner would have been 55 years old on the day I wrote this article, June 28 2001. In a retrospective piece we stroll back to the rich, dynamic and rapidly evolving world of the comedy of women in 1970s television that she and a select group of comediennes created for us before our very […]