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The Future of Creativity Lost in The Modern World

18 Feb 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Walk In Verse $0.00

Years ago, I earned a livelihood selling silver-gelatin photographs worldwide. Each day, the 8x10 or 11x14 view camera joined me on my adventures. Together we created many beautiful images. At the end of our trips through the wild, we arrived home. S...

Thanks for the CRACK, Joe! (Rundown - 2/11)

11 Feb 2022 2 minute read 0 comments The Hungry Beaver $0.02

The Rundown - February 11th   Ivermectin is a no no, but crack pipes? Different story — The Babylon Bee editor in chief said this story would have been too absurd to run with had one of their writers come up with this headline, but it’s true. Yes, th...

Love Of The Game

5 Feb 2022 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.04

In the spirit of full disclosure, I'm going to cop to a fair amount of bitterness up front.  I'm going to confess to not only indulging in it, but in not believing in it either.  It's why I came to Mexico.  I came to Mexico not only to overcome and g...

Maintaining Your Curiosity in a Monoculture

2 Feb 2022 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.09

I always loved the smell of used bookstores.  There is something undeniably relaxing about walking between stacks of aged, dying paper, upon which is written the wisdom and stupidity of the ages.  You'd wander past the gardening and how-to books, tow...

The Green Knight(s): No Spoilers Film Review

19 Jan 2022 3 minute read 0 comments VVoytila $0.04

The pandemic has not been kind to the silver screen, with would-be blockbusters like Nolan's Tenet not making nearly as much as was projected at the box office. No surprise, then, that films with a lower profile, coming from less established names sl...

The "Seren Taun" Harvest Festival

11 Jan 2022 1 minute read 0 comments blacxarea $0.02

At the peak of mountainous area in Cisolok Sub-Regency, Sukabumi Regency, furthest end of West Java Province in Indonesia, live some traditional Sundanese natives. They are divided to some small kingdom called "Kasepuhan." On of those "Kasepuhan...

Spontaneous trip to Paris.

26 Dec 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Volfik $0.06

Good morning everyone, or evening, depending on where you are on planet Earth and when you are reading this. For me it is a late afternoon, the time when I want to tell you about my very spontaneous trip to Paris, that took place two years ago in Oct...

Frederick the Great: Tactical Genius or Lucky Opportunist? (Part 2/3)

14 Dec 2021 12 minute read 0 comments Dan_ $0.12

Part 2: Frederick’s military background Portrait of Frederick II (the Great) in late 1739, only months before his succession. Oil on canvas, by Antoine Pesne (Source: DEA Picture Library, via Getty Images) This series has so far established that the...

DAOs And Mental Health

12 Dec 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Coach Viking $0.03

A lot of us come to DAOs in search of something more, something better. We had enough of the default, meat suit corporate attitudes. Or maybe we simply didn't fit into that corporate life.    Regardless of the more surface reasons, the deeper reasoni...

Thoughts on North Korea After 1 Year...

28 Nov 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Drew Binsky $0.04

Last year at this time, I was in Pyongyang, North Korea. It was the most eye-opening and surreal trip of my life. And the fact that I can speak Korean after living in Seoul, gave me a deeper understanding for what was happening around me, North of t...