A Sweet, Harmless Looking Film with Powerful Symbolism “Sometimes to survive, we must become more than we were programmed to be.” John Fraim Just caught some info on this new film that’s doing well at the box office. What a path to success. A leading children’s book author (ages 4-6) writers a very simple story […]
(A powerful story from the sub stack of my old high dorm monitor, Stoddard “Chip” Martin. He was editor of the school literary magazine Sage the year before I was. After high school, he went to Stanford and then moved to London where he has run a small literary press in London. I asked Chip’s […]
RollingStone of Another Era? McCoy Tyner / Impressions ______________________________________ Dedicated to Caroline John Fraim Whistleblowing – as today in the Diddy story as it develops – might be the route to bringing down the corrupt in America. It might be a way of getting at truth much faster than the daily, investigative route of a […]
Naima / MxCoy Tyner ______________________ (A story dedicated to a particular cocktail the author has a relationship with.) I’m dating a new woman. Just so you know Steph. She’s the Lavender Lady. I met her when I went down to get wine and vodka for Steph and me. I went down to the liquor store […]
Guinness Brewery / Dublin (late in the afternoon) / September 2024 The Bitter Withy St. James’s Gate Brewery is a brewery founded in 1759 in Dublin, Ireland, by Arthur Guiness. The main product of the brewery is Draught Guinness. Originally leased in 1759 to Arthur Guinness at £45 per year for 9,000 years, the St. James Gate area […]
________________ At the Hibernian Pub located in the front of the historic Hibernian Hotel in the centre of the famous medieval town of Killkenney. Recorded using Filmic Pro on iPhone 15 Plus on September 6, 2024 by John Fraim. The song they are playing is Spancil Hill (or in original spelling Spancilhill) is a traditional Irish […]
John Fraim ___________________________________ This is what happens when you invite a ten-year-old to follow you in your Vivaldi routine at a local mall. The world certainly is changing. Amazing to see these young artists rising to such heights of the arts at such a young age. What will the future be like for this ten-year-old […]
The leading advocate of free speech today is arguably the site Propaganda in Focus. As stated on the site, “Propaganda in Focus provides a forum for expert opinion and analysis about propaganda and its consequences, facilitating debate over more democratic and progressive forms of organized persuasive communication and censored scholarship. Its aim is to not only […]
