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FREUD
I've never been to a psychiatrist but if I ever try it I'll be sure the doctor is a bonafide, old-school Freudian. I want to take Freud's inward journey into the fantastic realm of the unconscious. I...
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WHAT FASHIONABLE PEOPLE ARE WEARING NOW
Well, if you're a fashionable guy then you're probably already wearing nerd pants like these (above). They're the latest thing. They show lots of ankle and a have high waists that that wrap around the...
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THE FACES OF TYRANTS
I'll start with Cesare Borgia (above), a violent psychopath whose senseless wars of conquest helped to undermine the Italian Renaissance. Orson Welles played him in a film called "Prince of Foxes"...
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UNDER THE KNIFE!
Yikes! I'll be under the surgeon's knife in a couple of days so I guess it'll be midweek before I'm back to Theory Corner again. It's to fix a heart problem, maybe with a stent. Â That meant major...
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BACK FROM THE HOSPITAL
I regret to report that I had the heart procedure done and it turned out that I didn't need a stent, just a funny-sounding drug. I should be happy about that but before I went under the knife I...
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CARICATURING BOXERS
You'd think boxing would be the easiest of all sports to caricature for the papers. After all, the posing is often pretty extreme. My guess is that boxing is actually one of the most difficult sports...
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THE DISRAELIS, FATHER AND SON
That's Benjamin Disraeli above, the flamboyant Prime Minister of Britain during the reign of Queen Victoria. My connection with him dates back to high school when I fell in love with an anthologized...
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MANLY WALL DECORATIONS
My own taste for framed wall pictures is for art, architecture, and aviation and space subjects, but lately I've been wondering if the walls of at least one room in the house should be devoted to...
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KIRK DOUGLAS AND "THE BIG STORY"
This is a post about 'The Big Story," a brilliant puppet film about Kirk Douglas. There's lots to say about it but none of it will make much sense unless I first discuss the 80s/90s TV show that paved...
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WHAT IF TIME TRAVEL WORKS?
I don't believe in time travel, but you have to admit that it has great story potential.A lot of time travel stories have the practice heavily regulated for fear that someone might change the past and...
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MY WEEKEND
I thought I'd put up a few pictures from my weekend as it's played out so far.  That's me (above) on Saturday, taking a selfie in my medicine cabinet mirror. Here's (above) a color xerox I unearthed...
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THE AL HIRSCHFELD WINDOW
Wow! Mike just sent me some pictures of a terrific window display in the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in Manhattan. That's Hirschfeld above, seated in the barber chair he did most of his later caricatures in....
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THE SUPPORT GROUP
INT. MENTAL HEALTH FACILITY:GERTRUDE: "Um...Hi! Er...is this the room where the support group meets?"ALL: "Yay! The counselor's here! Now we can get on with this! C'mon in! We thought you forgot about...
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THE LATEST ASTRONOMY PICTURES
I never tire of looking at pictures of the Milky Way taken from the surface of the Earth. This one (above) was taken from Reunion Island in the Southern Indian Ocean. What we call the Milky Way is...
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DOWNTON ABBEY
I can't believe that I neglected my blog and just about everything else so I could sit in front of the TV eating potato chips and watching discs of "Downton Abbey."Â Man, that show's dangerous! It's the...
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EVIL OLD LADY
Yikes! Sorry for the absence! No sooner did my marathon Downton Abbey series end than my kid came to visit, and I've been busy doing things with him. One of the things we did was discuss Photoshop and...
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MORE ABOUT TIME TRAVEL
I haven't been able to stop thinking about time travel since I posted about it last week. I still don't believe it's possible but it sure is fun to think about. It's especially fun since old photos...
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IT'S THE FOURTH OF JULY!!!!!!!
There it is...Old Glory. It's a symbol that I can't be owned by a Pharaoh or a Sun King, that I'm the author of my life's script.This video (above) is from 1938, three years before America entered WW2....
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ROWDY 19TH CENTURY THEATRE AUDIENCES
That's the old Drury Lane Theatre above. It looks like an expensive place to run and I wouldn't blame readers for thinking that it must have cost a fortune to see a show there. Actually, it didn't....
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THE LATEST TOY RAY GUNS
Mike just bought a rabbit ray gun (above) and he let me try it out. It's pretty good! It consists of a crazed rabbit's face (looking a little like Ren Hoek) in a bathroom plunger with rabbit ear...
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