Scottish: Glasgow-born Angus Young is Bobby Burns on Crack.
Angus McKinnon Young (1955- ) Robert Burns, Bard of Ayrshire (1759-1796)
Month: May 2022
Sterling Hayden: Our Greatest Lover of Being Alive.
Although actor Sterling Hayden (1916-1986) was not in love with Hollywood or acting, he was a highly regarded actor who was cast […]
Mircea Eliade’s “Shamanism”: A classic in the history of religions.
Or you may view it as a classic of anthropology. Whatever you call it, it is serious scholarship and in a class […]
Anthony Burgess, Polymath: Clockwork Orange, novella or Kubrick movie, is besides the point.
Anthony Burgess’s frightening 1962 dystopian novel Clockwork Orange and satire is not my favorite book. Its spectacular 1971 adaptation to Hollywood blockbuster, […]
May 17, 1928
“There’s not a man in a carload of you.” – John Daniel Hull III (May 17, 1928 – December 12, 2012) Happy […]
Jack London: On Real Life
“ªYou can’t wait for Inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. “ª”” Jack London (1876-1916)”¬ London in 1905″¬
Robert Frost’s Work-Life Pulitzer
The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week. Robert Frost (1874-1963) spent […]
Partner Emeritus on Half-Windsor Knots, Bow Ties, Real Men, Everything.
Last week, in the comments of an article at Above the Law by Shannon Achimalbe entitled Guess Who Else is Reading Your […]
Wilder
“If you are going to tell the truth be funny or they will kill you.” “” Billy Wilder, American Filmmaker (1906-2002)
Prisoner of Rock ‘n’ Roll: Van Morrison.
All the girls walk by dressed up for each other. And the boys do the boogie-woogie in the corner of the street.
