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Monday Mar 17, 2003
Theodore Sturgeon and I
Some years ago in my Los Angeles days, I had met a number of well-know writers—from Harold Robbins to Theodore Sturgeon to drop a couple of names.
Ted, an icon in the science fiction world, used to visit me once a month. As I recall, he was living in Northern California or up in Oregon. He would come into my office with his Amazonian wife who looked after him.
At the time, I was the managing editor of a magazine. Ted was writing a monthly column for the publication. Ted smoked a pipe, his long hair fell onto his beard, and he looked like Johnny Appleseed to me.
Sunday Mar 16, 2003
Aural Treat
I first heard Ruby: The Adventures of a Galactic Gumshoe on audio cassettes over twenty years ago—and I never forgot her. The series is produced by the nonprofit ZBS Foundation and a special team of artists.
If you want to treat your ears, get the complete Ruby 1 series on CD, shut off the lights, and enter a special world.
The following description is from ZBS:
Ruby is fast-paced and funny intergalactic entertainment the Marx Brothers would be proud of, with slick, splashy high-tech music and effects created by Tim Clark. The music and sound effects are stunning.
On the planet Summa Nulla— the “high point of nothing” —someone is manipulating the media. And Ruby, our hip, tough-talking detective is hired to track down the malefactors.
Saturday Mar 15, 2003
Friends, Romans, Countrymen
Julius Caesar, in Shakespeare’s play, does not heed the soothsayer’s now iconic and prophetic warning: Beware the ides of March, which, up until the bard penned that now famous line, had merely meant the 15th day of March on the calendar.
The play is ripe with omens. Why heed one omen and not another? Are you superstitious?
The play contains some of the most often quoted bits of biting dialog in Western literature. Here are a few that will certainly sound familiar.
Thursday Mar 13, 2003
A Beautiful Soul
Prince Hamlet must confront the duality of nature, murder, grief, and betrayal by his mother and uncle—little wonder then that he was troubled.
At the core of his thematic issue is this: What do you do when you know the truth and that the truth needs to be told?
Have you been there?
Monday Mar 10, 2003
Oh Maya, Oh Maya
Mayan Consciousness
There is no doubt that there is a human collective consciousness. The energy of the past is swirling about us in the present. Can you see it? Can you feel it? It exists on the sub-atomic level—the invisible matrix that creates the material world. It is transcendental knowledge.
The wisdom, mystery, and history of the ages are available to anyone willing to receive.
