Extraordinary Discourse Podcast

Heart and Mind Amusement Arcade After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said, "Look, baby, I'm sorry, but don't you realize that this job is driving me crazy? Look, let's give it up. Let's just lay around and make love and take walks and talk a little. Let's go to the zoo. Let's look at animals. Let's drive down and look at the ocean. It's only 45 minutes. Let's play games in the arcades. Let's go to the races, the Art Museum, the boxing matches. Let's have friends. Let's laugh. This kind of life like everybody else's kind of life: it's killing us. Charles Bukowski

Radical Implications We're in a horrendous cultural vacuum because our status-besotted education industry is geared toward producing not original thinkers but docile creatures of the system. (Salon 10/14/2009) Camille Paglia

Kibitz and Pieces The person who can learn by observation can create his own culture. Santosh Kalwar

Soul Bling Trail Mix Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker? Garth Nix You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.” Tom Hiddleston

Through The Roof Don’t shove me into your damn pigeonhole, where I don’t fit, because I’m all over. My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions. Ursula K. Le Guin

PLAY AND ORDER! White Rabbit was mostly done in about two days, the music in about half an hour. The music is a Bolero rip-off, and the lyrics a rearrangement of “Alice In Wonderland.” You take two spectacular hits and throw them together, and it's hard to miss. Grace Slick

 Seeker`s Speakers The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. Philip K. Dick