Off Balance
[Image by Jan Piller at redbubble.com. Click the image for the original/to purchase.] From whiskey river (italicized portion): Taking a walk with you lacking the wit and depth that inform our dreams’...
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[See the note about this video at the bottom of the post.] From whiskey river: Any Morning Just lying on the couch and being happy. Only humming a little, the quiet sound in the head. Trouble is busy...
View ArticleHuman Questions, Human Answers
[Above: still images from the 2010 South Korean film Quiz King, also known as The Quiz Show Scandal. See the note at the bottom of this post for more information.] From whiskey river: We are born for...
View ArticleCaught by Surprise
[Image: a key (and classic) moment in Fritz Lang’s 1931 thriller, M: the murderer, played by Peter Lorre, learns he’s a (literally) marked man.] From whiskey river: We can never know what to want,...
View ArticleSeeking Reflection
[Image: “reflections (A),” by Camil Tulcan (camil_t) on Flickr. (Click image to enlarge.) Used under a Creative Commons license.] From whiskey river: You can’t see yourself. You know what you look...
View ArticleWhat Made You Think It’d Be Easy?
[Image: The Place du Havre, Paris (detail), by Camille Pisarro (1893). Says the Art Institute of Chicago: “This bustling scene, alive with the noise and movement of traffic and pedestrians, was the...
View ArticleThings to Keep
[Image: “Gripped,” by user s2ublack (Stewart Black) on Flickr. Used under a Creative Commons license.] From whiskey river: Necessities 1 A map of the world. Not the one in the atlas, but the one in...
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