Variations of Beauty and the Beast
By Asia Leonardi “Amor vicit omnia”, “love triumphs over all”, even with the most monstrous appearances, is what the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast seems to invoke, a tale […]
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The Case for Dreams
by Fraser Hibbitt During his imprisonment, Socrates supposedly composed some lyrics, something he had never bothered himself with before. Puzzled by this behavior, his friend Cebes asked him on the […]
Happy Anniversary to J.R.R. and Edith Tolkien
Here at the blog we celebrate some dates and anniversaries in our quirky way. The seasons, DNA Day, Bitcoin Pizza Day, Bitcoin’s Birthday, and in today’s post the anniversary of […]
Psychogeography: Maps, Borders, Paradise
by Hazel Anna Rogers When I was young and being driven somewhere or other, I would always notice and ponder the physical space between signs indicating where we were arriving […]
Homage to Samuel Beckett
by Fraser Hibbitt There is a myth from Ancient Greece – containing a well-known proverb that reverberated in Greek thought. It involves the creature Silenus, the teacher of the wine […]
On the Wonders of Classical Music
by Hazel Anna Rogers I have always listened to classical music, though perhaps that’s rather too vague a term for all of the wonderful varieties of music the name “classical” […]
Farewell Alto Reed – Saxophonist Extraordinaire
by Fraser Hibbitt and Carl Kruse Just before the new year, Alto Reed passed away, adding a sad note to an already challenging year. The saxophonist and friend who spent […]
Check Point Charlie Berlin
by Carl Kruse During the Cold War, Checkpoint Charlie was a border between East and West Berlin or more appropriately, the ONLY border where you could legally cross between the […]
Happy Birthday Bitcoin
by Carl Kruse Twelve years ago some guy (or group of people, nobody really knows) called Satoshi Nakamoto, published an 8-page white paper called “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System,” […]
Divine Twitter Admin Accounts
By Carl Kruse Several Twitter admin accounts were recently compromised allowing a hacker to modify other accounts (see here), bringing even Jeffery Epstein’s Twitter account alive again to say, “I […]
Bitcoin Pizza Day
By Carl Kruse It’s May 22, Bitcoin Pizza Day, celebrated by bitcoiners and friends everywhere. What’s this? Back in May 22, 2010, software engineer Laszlo Hanyecz bought two pizzas with […]
Buy Bitcoin
By Carl Kruse A few days ago my acquaintances Max and Jonathan asked me about possible stocks to buy. “Look at all the good deals!” they exclaimed. So many good […]
30th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall
By Carl Kruse The Berlin Wall fell 30 years ago and with it the beginning of the end of the Cold War. Today only fragments remain after much of […]
Wings Over Tempelhof
A winged bicycle soars over the miniature golf course at the former Tempelhof airport in Berlin. Just past the fence is housing for five-thousand asylum seekers recently arrived to Germany. […]
Pakenham Loves Trees, so does Kruse
When Thomas Pakenham first thought of making a book about his favorite trees near his home in England, friends poked fun at him, but the book he created, “Meetings With […]
At Dusk
In long-drawn moments of dusk Shadows are bold companions Birds grow silent and keep night’s secrets. Contact: carl AT carlkruse DOT com Check out some of the poetry of […]
So long Ursula K. Le Guin
Goodbye Ursula K Le Guin. Your search for balance and compassion as you explored the inner lands of imagination was an inspiration. It was with you that I first encountered […]
Poetry from Otho Campbell
Here are three poems from my friend Otho Campbell. He has not titled them and so I have named them a la Emily Dickinson, which is to say titling them […]