Ode to Hate It’s everywhere And I hate it!
I like sports. I grew up in Detroit rooting for Al Kaline and Gordie Howe, then I was an avid softball player and a lunatic Laker fan for most of my 30 years in LA. So, I get the irrational, cultural overlay of novices having flights of unrealistic fancy and…
Chinese philosophy is steeped in the relationships of the natural order of things: earth to sky, man to beast, the this to the that. At some early point of my hippiest years, I stumbled upon the captivating simplicity of the yin/yang symbol and it’s cuddly, sixty-nine-ish, jigsaw-puzzlely black and whiteness…
They’re mostly a load of crap. Awards and award shows are rarely about the excellence of the people, products and places they profess to honor, rather, a device to draw attention to and raise money for the presenting organizations. There are now so many of them that once avid devotees…