Sunday Is (Good Clean Wholesome) Fun Day
Once again there are interesting new posts to explore at the Good Clean Wholesome Fun tumblelog,1 one or another of which may be exactly the thing to pique the interest of the sophisticated reader - like you, for example.2
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Life with fewer market norms and more social norms would be more satisfying, creative, fulfilling and fun Quote from Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational, reviewed in New York Times “Obviously, this sly and lucid book is not about your grandfather’s dismal science. Ariely’s trade is behavioral economics, which is the study, by experiments, of what people actually do when they buy, sell, change jobs, marry and make other real-life decisions.”
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Why I Am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead Liberal’ by David Mamet Articulate election season essay dealing with Mamet’s own surrender of selective political idealism for a less convenient, realistic perspective on government.
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World’s Most Creative Buildings A list which includes the cleverly designed facade of the Kansas City Library shown above.
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May Pang - Instamatic Karma (New York Times) Photographs from 1973-75 of May Pang and John and Julian Lennon, along with Harry Nilsson.
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Time Multimedia show about The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2008 Outstanding multimedia show about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees of 2008. Great pix with insightful and sardonic commentary
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Dancers in the Crowd Bring Back ‘Thriller’ - New York Times “In Britain, Sony BMG executives videotaped professional dancers in everyday settings — like the Tube and a Tesco supermarket.” “From their seats on the rumbling London Underground, a group of stony-faced passengers rose at random and burst into the jerky slide kick of a zombie dance before melting away without a word. The response of British passengers — stiff gazes, nervous silence and tepid applause — was, naturally, videotaped and posted online, and it quickly spun off into zombie dance sequels at the central Copenhagen train station, in Chinatown in London and on the street outside the Sydney Opera House.”
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There really isn’t an ‘easy’ entry into the world of Cohen Maybe, maybe not. In any case I offer my suggestions.
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“It’s not ‘The Thong Song,’ is what we’re saying”David Hinckley characterizing Leonard Cohen’s “Suzanne
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Cover Lay Down: Single Song Sunday: Leonard Cohen’s Famous Blue Raincoat
- A Man’s 6-Pack Can Serve as His Castle
- Springsteen: I was 24 when I wrote ‘We ain’t that young anymore’ [in the song Thunder Road]
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“You can be graceful and beautiful and well-poised and skin a muskrat”
Footnotes
- GoodCleanWholesome Fun is the quick-witted, energetic, happy go lucky younger tumblelog sibling of DrHGuy’s jocose but prolix, sometimes abstruse Heck of a Guy blog. For details, see Try Some GoodCleanWholesomeFun ~back~
- As usual, the links in this list go directly to the single item described. All these entries as well as the posts that preceded them and any posts added since this list was compiled can be accessed in a single sequence at GoodCleanWholesome Fun ~back~
