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Africa's New Culture Heroes

Influence Media wrote 2 months ago: Three young culture influencers from Africa who are shaking up the old continent with their own uniq … more →

Tags: film, CNN, Africa, New York Times, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, purple hibiscus, commonwealth writers prize, Half of a Yellow Sun, Biafran War

Culture Heroes #3 Caravaggio1 comment

Donna wrote 3 months ago: A moment in the dark with light as a blade. That’s how I’d sum up the painting of Carava … more →

Tags: Art, Biography, Donna, caravaggio

My Culture Heroes #2 - Nick Cave3 comments

Donna wrote 4 months ago: I am not built for Goth-dom, but Nick Cave is my man. Australia’s coolest export has just publ … more →

Tags: Books, Music, Biography, Donna, culture hero, Nick Cave

Acid Heroes by Ace Backwords

Pat Hartman wrote 5 months ago: As a teenager I read several books by Alexander King, and they were a huge influence on my tender ps … more →

Tags: Artists, Books, Humor, Ace Backwords, Alexander King, Art, drugs, Genius, Homeless

Kidd of Speed

Pat Hartman wrote 8 months ago: Free-lance archaeologist Elena in the field For so many reasons, this gets my vote for all-round gre … more →

Tags: big zed, chernobyl, Hero, Kawasaki, motorcycle, Russia, USSR, War

Leonard Cohen Quotations

Pat Hartman wrote 11 months ago: Recalling his time at McGill University ” I yearned to live a semi-bohemian lifestyle, an unst … more →

Tags: Music, Leonard Cohen, Philosophy, Quotations

Zen and the Art of Being George Carlin

Pat Hartman wrote 12 months ago: It’s often been said (especially by me) that the only people worth paying attention to are sci … more →

Tags: Humor, craig ferguson, Science Fiction, Stand Up Comedy, Lenny Bruce, richard pryor, Left Handed, Venice-CA, Frank Zappa

My Culture heroes #1 Stephen Fry2 comments

Donna wrote 1 year ago: Stephen Fry With the aforementioned Jeeves and Wooster watching, I feel it’s time to salute on … more →

Tags: Books, Authors, Donna, Stephen Fry, culture hero

Craig Ferguson and All That

Pat Hartman wrote 1 year ago: The world was once astonished to learn of the seven types of ambiguity. Actually there are many more … more →

Tags: Humor, craig ferguson, Marijuana

Craig Ferguson's Dad

Pat Hartman wrote 1 year ago: I don’t often pass along video links, partly because I don’t run across many things that really warr … more →

Tags: Humor, death, Family, Father, craig ferguson

Michael Ventura's Letters at 3 AM

Pat Hartman wrote 1 year ago: I’m a one-person cult of Michael Ventura. One of the reasons I dig him is because of the peopl … more →

Tags: Books, spirituality, War, war on drugs, Religion, libertarian, Solutions

Phil Ochs Miscellaneous

Pat Hartman wrote 1 year ago: In There but for Fortune, an Ochs biography, the author says Pleasures of the Harbor was not a perfe … more →

Tags: Music

Troubadour in the Shadows: Phil Ochs

Pat Hartman wrote 1 year ago: Phil Ochs was the singer-songwriter who could have been Dylan, had Dylan not already occupied that p … more →

Tags: Music, Politics, Suicide, Jerry Rubin, folk, Bob Dylan

Danforth, Prince of Blood Moon

Pat Hartman wrote 1 year ago: Blood Moon Productions Ltd. logo This Q&A with the president of Blood Moon Productions just migh … more →

Tags: HOW TO?, Publishing, Interview, Dick Cavett, werner erhard, roles, Danforth Prince

GENERATION ECCH! The Backlash Starts Here

Pat Hartman wrote 1 year ago: A cultural critic named David Toop once said, “What’s utterly now will soon be thoroughl … more →

Tags: Music, Artists, Humor, Generation X, GenX, cobain, Grateful Dead, Evan Dorkin

Inspired by Rubber Tramps: 9 designs

Pat Hartman wrote 1 year ago: Inspired by the movie Rubber Tramps, 9 t-shirt designs. RELATED: Rubber Tramps … more →

Tags: Music, film, Artists, Rubber Tramps, road people, van, t-shirt

Ace Backwords: an Appreciation

Pat Hartman wrote 1 year ago: This is an unabashed paean to one of my major culture heroes, Ace Backwords. I’ve gone on reco … more →

Tags: Music, Artists, Humor, Books, Homeless, colin wilson, Berkeley, Telegraph Avenue, drugs

Adam and Eve of Hip Comedy: Nichols & May

Pat Hartman wrote 1 year ago: A kind friend provided a tape of a documentary about the career of Mike Nichols and Elaine May, the … more →

Tags: Humor, Comedy, Mike Nichols, Elaine May

I Am Not a Number! Claire Wolfe

Pat Hartman wrote 1 year ago: It’s so easy, and so much fun, to write about things you don’t like: to sling insults, s … more →

Tags: HOW TO?, Loompanics, Claire Wolfe, Surveillance, id, speculative fiction, Politics


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