Tag Archives: Marc Estrin

FILM / Peter Watkins’ ‘La Commune’ : A Conceptual Tour de Force

Posted on March 29, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

PETER WATKINS’ LA COMMUNE By Marc Estrin / The Rag Blog / March 29, 2010 The Paris Commune, that is — a citizens’ revolt against a royalist government, the organizing of that revolt, and the crushing of it by government … Continue reading →

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Marc Estrin : Happy Birthday, Albert Einstein

Posted on March 15, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Albert Einstein and Marie Curie.HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ALBERT (Albert Einstein was born on March 14th, 1879.) Blanchot : “La réponse est le malheur de la question.” (The answer is the misfortune of the question.) ALBERT EINSTEIN SAID Sometimes I ask myself … Continue reading →

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Marc Estrin : Our Unsingable National Anthem

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Bombs bursting in air…Oh say can you sing? By Marc Estrin / The Rag Blog / March 11, 2010 Oh, say can you see? o sa cn u c? When did we have to stand and sing this at hockey … Continue reading →

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Marc Estrin : Skulkstack

Posted on March 7, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Austin’s Echelon Building, which housed offices of the IRS, was destroyed on Feb. 19, 2010, when disgruntled software engineer Joseph Stack allegedly crashing his single-prop Piper Cherokee into building.Creepy connection:Stack’s attack and my novel Skulk By Marc Estrin / The … Continue reading →

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Foodie Friday : Bread, Puppets, and Boiled Veggies

Posted on March 6, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Bread and Puppet Theater. Image from Akimbo.Health care:Bread and Puppet aioli By Marc Estrin / The Rag Blog / March 5, 2010 See “Boil those veggies!” by Janet Gilles, Below. Anyone taking in the recent health care “debate” — in … Continue reading →

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Tilting at Windmills : Don Quixote, the Israel Ballet, and the Dance of Apartheid

Posted on February 22, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Don Quixote goes mad. Engraving by Gustave Doré. Image from Wikimedia Commons.Showing Israel’s ‘prettier face’:Don Quixote comes to Burlington Whether conscious or not, there is a deep irony in the choice of Don Quixote as a touring piece for the … Continue reading →

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Marc Estrin: Hearts and Minds : A Valentine’s Day Love Offensive

Posted on February 14, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Israeli school children are shown writing messages on shells meant for targets in Lebanon. The incident took place July 17, 2006, near the northern Israeli border. The messages reportedly included hearts, a star of David, and the words “From Israel … Continue reading →

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Marc Estrin : Happy Birthday, Bertolt Brecht

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Bertolt Brecht, 1948. Photo from Deutsches Bundesarchiv / Wikimedia Commons.Of Poor B.B.:Bertolt Brecht speaks from the grave By Marc Estrin / The Rag Blog / February 11, 2010 [German playwright, poet, and theatrical director Bertolt Brecht was born on February … Continue reading →

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Marc Estrin : On Mozart and Auschwitz

Posted on February 5, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

THE WHITE DOT IN THE MIDDLE OF By Marc Estrin / The Rag Blog / February 5, 2010 The calendar offers up some provocative coincidences — provocative and tartly instructive. January 27th, for instance, has given us both Mozart’s birthday, … Continue reading →

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Marc Estrin : The Revolutionary Messages of Classical Music

Posted on January 25, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Johannes Brahms by Lucian Tidorescu. Protest music:Radical themes of the great composers The Brahms Requiem is also movement music, unbearably beautiful, revealingly deep — like our afflicted lives. By Marc Estrin / The Rag Blog / January 25, 2010 In … Continue reading →

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Rag Blog Scoop about ‘Cognitive Infiltration’ Stirs up Internet Storm

Posted on January 16, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Marc Estrin exhibits the tag line to his exclusive Rag Blog article about Obama advisor Cass Sunstein that has received much attention in the blogosphere.Estrin’s exclusive about Obama confidantTriggers alarm about controversial scheme By Thorne Dreyer / The Rag Blog … Continue reading →

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Marc Estrin : GREED — A Bedtime Story

Posted on January 16, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

GREED — A Bedtime Story By Marc Estrin / The Rag Blog / January 26, 2010 I won’t bore or appall you with the toxic sludge spewing out of the mouths of our CEOs justifying — sans apology — their … Continue reading →

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