Here's Why Jozef IMRICH Is Not Truly The Richest Person In History

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
— Bohemian proverb -  "Forget Freud ... Cold River is therapy by the book."

Food was good because a chef made it so. The finesse and knowledge required to poach a chicken in a pig’s bladder or cook a sea bass in pastry can’t simply be plucked from the ground.

How Paul Bocuse, who died on Jan. 20, popularized “nouvelle cuisine” and invented the notion of the modern chef.

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Nina Dodd knits clothing to blend photographer Joseph Ford’s subjects seamlessly into their backgrounds.

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Only three out of 160 social housing towers reclad after Grenfell fire Guardian. Death traps for the poor and working class. So what’s the issue? (On the Grenfell fire,see NC here)

Borrow $5,000, repay $42,000 — How super high-interest loans have boomed in California Los Angeles Times

I Was Waiting For Fog To Cover My Hometown In Poland So I Could Capture Its Beauty, And Here’s The Result

ROCK ‘N’ ROLL TWEET OF THE MEDia Dragon DECADE:

Jeff Bezos Reaches Highest Net Worth: The Amazon founder's fortune rose by $2.8 billion on Tuesday thanks to a stock bump following the launch of the e-tailer's first cashier-less store.

• When a used book has an inscription, it's like a visit from a ghost of Christmas past

  

  Clifton Fadiman said it best when he wrote of 'objects whose connection with us lies just this side of evanescence.'

The length and pronounceability of eBay seller names influences buyers’ perceptions of trustworthiness.

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We have been told by the living that the idea of a vital world is that of comfort and warmth. Dominic Fox assures us that this is not the case. With an unparalleled militant efficiency, Cold World blackens the lines between poetics and politics, music and negative resistance. It is a haunting sermon from the world of the dead exhorting the living to revolt in the name of a life whose vitality has been disenchanted by coldness and whose sacredness has been profaned by nigredo. - Reza Negarestani, Author of Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials

Darkest Hour Review of Note 

Dominic Fox's timely and important Cold World pinpoints the fundamental issue underlying contemporary debate about the possibility of revolutionary politics in a culture suffused by paralysing despondency. Drawing on a remarkable array of sources from Coleridge and Gerard Manley Hopkins to Xasthur and Ulrike Meinhof, Fox explores the necessary yet apparently contradictory link between refusal and revolution. While refusal without revolution perpetuates the very condition it would negate, revolution without refusal quickly lapses into phantasmatic utopianism. The quandaries of this particular dialectic have never been as lucidly charted as they are here. - Ray Brassier, Author of Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction 

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Winston Churchill: Would you stop interrupting me while I am interrupting you!

Until recently, Jordan Peterson was a little-known psychology professor who wrote a book almost no one read. Now he leads a growing flock of die-hard disciples  Son of Wise Peter  

Gardening is turning out to be one of the best drugs available for both body and mind. 

Here's Why Jeff Bezos Is Not Truly The Richest Person In History

Old Memories of Folkloric Dancing at RIGA

ANN ALTHOUSE CELEBRATES her 14th Bloggiversary. All traces of timidity are long gone even for MEdia Dragon as 2018 brings sweet sixteen years at the virtual salt mines 

3 Blogging Trends to Get a Jump on Before 2018

The 11 most anti-capitalist quotes from Martin Luther King Jr. Raw 

Following up on Friday's post, Law Profs: Beware The Perils Of Twitter:  Derek Muller (Pepperdine), The Rise and Fall of My Use of Twitter:

I have found that the reward from "status" on Twitter is simply not great. For journalism, it remains, sadly, nearly ubiquitous. A majority of media inquiries now start from a tweet; indeed, a non-trivial number of media mentions fail to even inquire of me and simply (lazily) cite my tweet. Using Twitter less means fewer citations in journalists' pieces, but such is the tradeoff. Furthermore, I've found that a lot of media now focuses on what people say on Twitter, and then how others react to those statements on Twitter—a deeply meta, and often, I think, deeply superficial way of thinking about newsworthiness.

Furthermore, I've watched a number of law professors (and others) lose a significant amount of their credibility (in my eyes, at least, and I think, to some degree, in the eyes of at least some others) by succumbing to the allure of fleeting social media fame. It moves beyond branding into a quasi-celebrity status. It's something that I want to separate myself from. ...

ART OF THE MEMOIR, Part Three My mother's family was much harder to trace for my brother. Her father's family name, Grieb, is clearly not their original name either. Her father... 

Philip Morris seeks FDA approval on a cigarette heater it claims reduces health risks—and they’d never lie to you.

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