FREUD'S PYRAMID, WHO ELSE IS WATCHING? There is more to you. That which is deep down inside, untapped, hidden, and scared. At times like this, we can think of those things. Shut up in our houses, just like we are shut up inside. I could have said we are hiding in our hearts, or in [...]
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Rockabilly River Nights!
https://vimeo.com/159619191 "River Nights," a 1980 song written and sung by Reggie Van Stockum with Tom Hynes on guitar and Paul Woods on drums at the Harvest Coffee and Cafe in Shelbyville, Kentucky, on Friday night, March 19, 2016.
Immunity, Vampires, and the Apocalypse!
IMMUNITY, VAMPIRES, AND THE APOCALYPSE! In which order should we take them? In reverse? Alright, the apocalypse first! Is it happening? Nope. Different folks have different beliefs about the coming destruction, of which they are all certain. Mine? An asteroid. It has happened before. A two-mile wide asteroid [1998, OR2] just passed by! Remember the [...]
Federal Trademark for “Life and Landscapes”
USPTO Life and Landscapes_04-28-2020
What really happened back then, in 1918?
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED BACK THEN, IN 1918? 1918. With so many people moving around. It was a brand new world, at war with itself. When it should have been looking to fight somewhere else. That World War started because of the death of Franz Ferdinand. By the time it was over, nine million soldiers [...]
That flu was not Spanish, and it is still following you!
THAT FLU WAS NOT SPANISH, AND IT IS STILL FOLLOWING YOU! How can a virus be so dangerous, when it only kills a few persons per one hundred infected? 1% or 2% sounds kind of low. Kind of hopeful, unless you're the one or the two. Or if everyone you know is infected. At that [...]
Is A Virus Alive?
IS A VIRUS ALIVE? What does it mean to be living? Viruses certainly seem to accelerate the dying. Well, some of them, anyway. Are they all parasitic? I ask my Junior College students this question: How do you define life? Not spiritually, for that is not my business here. Not through philosophy, too speculative. But [...]
George Washington at Twenty-One
GEORGE WASHINGTON AT TWENTY-ONE Do you remember when you were twenty-one? When you thought you were so incredibly strong. You soon enough began to feel the power in your future begin to weaken, as you prepared yourself for the long run. George Washington of the monument was once twenty-one, and a provincial officer set to [...]
Making Soap, How it Works!-mini-podcast
George Washington Before the War
GEORGE WASHINGTON BEFORE THE WAR Before that later, more famous war. The revolutionary one. I'm talking here about the earlier, less talked about war. The one not as well known. The"French and Indian War." James Fenimore Cooper wrote about it in "The Last of the Mohicans." You saw the movie. You remember Hawkeye. "No matter [...]