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A midweek cartoon
From the acid-penned genius known only as Mr. Fish:
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Tom the Giant
At dinner last night I put on Tom Waits’ Alice, the poet’s take on Alice in Wonderland and a personal favorite when skies are grey (and in Brussels they have been for awhile). It didn’t take long before the questions began from the kids.
“Who is that”
“Is he angry”
“Is it the crazy homeless man”
“Is he mean [...]
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Hedgehog in the Fog
This short, atmospheric film was a television staple in the Soviet era. It exemplifies the dreamy, mythopoeic strain that runs through some of the finest Russian art, from the opening pages of The Idiot to the intensely melancholic cinema of Aleksandr Sokurov. See what you think:
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My friend Gerry, who somehow manages to combine being a successful corporate communicator by day and Celtic music sensation at night, recently led me on a coaching exercise to help figure out what the hell I should be doing with my life.
Together we discovered a number of useful insights, but the one that I found [...]
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