Are we not like two volumes of one book?
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul
~ Judy Garland
I got a Valentine's Day card from my grrrrlll. It said, 'Take my heart! Take my arms! Take my lips!' Which is just like her. Keeping the best part for herself (Bohemian humours Freudian ant eating spider ... via Our antipodean ABC )
Craving, exhilaration, intoxication, obsessiveness, withdrawal, helplessness: Love is like cocaine. Jozef Imrich explains...Love is Like MEdia Dradon ;-)
Politics, religion, and calendar reform. In Russia, in 1918, the day after January 31 was proclaimed February 14. The new regime wanted to leap forward... 99 years Ago
~ Judy Garland
I got a Valentine's Day card from my grrrrlll. It said, 'Take my heart! Take my arms! Take my lips!' Which is just like her. Keeping the best part for herself (Bohemian humours Freudian ant eating spider ... via Our antipodean ABC )
Politics, religion, and calendar reform. In Russia, in 1918, the day after January 31 was proclaimed February 14. The new regime wanted to leap forward... 99 years Ago
Euro-French spacecraft pilot for European Space Agency (ESA), Thomas Pesquet recently captured the red heart of Australia from the International Space Station (ISS) approx. 400km above ground:
Be humbled by this stunning new image of Uluru as seen from space |
| Urulu Ayers Rocks |
The French engineer said he’s wanted to capture Uluru for a long time
From Kenya with Love ...
Scientists reveal what St Valentine really looked like
"Kafka is really magic. He was really an extraordinary human being, who saw literature as a way to repair the world, as a form of art. Not that he thought his work would do that, but that was part of the goal of literature.”
Where are Kafka's letters?
The history behind Valentine's Day
Adele – And David Bowie – Is The Big Winner At The Grammys
Beyoncé won Best Contemporary Urban Album for “Lemonade” but lost out to Adele in the other big categories; David Bowie won his first Grammys for Blackstar; Chance the Rapper had a big night – and politics took center stage for some performers, like Katy Perry and A Tribe Called Quest (google “President Agent Orange”).
Connection counts more than the flowers on Valentine's Day
Jeremy McLellan is a comedian but like all great comedians he captures truths and complexities underneath the laughs.
Valentine’s Day is a just a fake holiday invented by Hallmark to sell greeting cards. So what have you invented recently to make people happy? Nothing, that’s what!
In three lovely sentences McLellan recaps Hayek versus Galbraith on the nature of advertising, consumer demand and entrepreneurship. Entire dissertations could be written parsing this out.