My friend Anna Kippervasser, artist and filmmaker, has a blog up detailing some of the magical coincidences and human connections she encounters in her five week trip to Cairo. Anna is an awesome gal, a woman of many worlds, cosmopolitan, with an international soul able to find connections with, and meaning in, the remarkable souls […]
Cincinnati
Melancholia, and random thoughts, on the CD deck is Death in June
When walking in Melancholia, I tend to listen to Death In June’s NADA! on a repeat loop. Something about that record is kind of soothing to me. NADA is, I’m convinced, one of the best Industrial and dark synth-pop records of the 80’s, and one of Death In June’s own masterpieces. Though the collaborations with […]
Thoughtful Quotes of the day, 12/22/2009
Quotes I found thought provoking “Every fear is an unconfronted weakness.” – Kurt Saxon in the essay “Survival and the Paranoid” 1977 “Intellectual understanding in the strict sense is found at the highest pinnacle of human selfhood, what the philosophers call the “actual intellect.” When such understanding leaves the realm of pure intelligence and descends […]
a tragic shooting and a fund raiser
This week, on Thursday December 3, Sitewlls Coffeehouse is having a fund raiser for the family of Himid Kerdougheli. Himid is a local cab driver and well known, long-time, regular at Sitwells. Shocking and Horrifyingly, Himid was shot in the left side of his neck, on the evening of Saturday 11/29/2009. He was badly, though […]