As “Rocky Horror” has been to October for quite some time, so now is “Spring Awakening” to the merry month of May. Conversely, no theatre in its right mind would open “A Christmas Carol” on Independence Day, even if that weren’t the slot soon to be reserved for home-grown productions of “Hamilton” and likely to remain so […]
Computer scientist Jacques Vallée advances an interesting theory. What if time and space don’t exist? What if they’re only byproducts of consciousness itself, helpful patterns we superimpose on our experiences in the same way we might decide that a cloud looks like a rabbit or a pig? What if, and this is where we get down to it, the linear universe we […]
I have a friend who, whenever somebody mentions something interesting about themselves, instantly maneuvers the conversation toward something equally interesting about himself. Even if it isn’t. That’s how yesterday’s day o’ reflection on the Kennedy assassination, the timing of it at any rate, felt to me. Not two weeks after Tacloban was nearly wiped off […]
