Ready for a Transcendent Experience?

Sometimes you just need to get away from it all… transcend the chaos and noise of the day-to-day, matters of consequence. Thanks to the fine work of Bill (“Billy”) Fitzgerald, here’s your chance. His “Balloons over Egypt” piece is fantastic!

It runs just under 5-minutes. Enjoy!

Famous Typewriters for 200…

A post on “ancient” typewriters (typewriters that were used by 9 famous writers), caught my eye. It included a picture of the gold plated portable that Ian Flemming (the creator of the James Bond series), Hemingway’s Royal Arrow, Steinbeck’s Hermes Baby, and the typewriter used by Apple Mac user, Douglas… more »

The Babe: A Teaching Moment…

Love this shot that accompanied an article about Babe Ruth that appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle.  According to his granddaughter, Babe Ruth always had time for children. This photograph is from Nov. 29, 1924.

FantasyLand Now Playing…

Stephen Palgon’s “Fantasyland,” a documentary about fantasy sports players based on the book by Sam Walker, premiered in March on SnagFilms.com. “Fantasyland” follows Jed Latkin, an amateur fantasy baseball fan who earns the chance to compete in an expert league called Tout Wars during the 2008 baseball season. Financed and… more »

Schools to Teach Critical Thinking with Movies

The program should help kids manage and decode the barrage of visual information they absorb in daily life, to “shape their minds to a critical way of looking at these images and what they mean, and how to interpret them…