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03/07/2021 00:45 El filósofo Kierkegaard cuenta la historia de un actor que gritaba sobre el escenario “fuego, fuego” y los espectadores se reían sin sospechar que no estaba recitando el guion, sino ante una amenaza real que pronto abrasaría a todos. Esta anécdota ilustra muy bien el contraste entre lo que esperamos de las obras de ficción y el mundo real. Los humanos nos enfrentamos a las obras de ­teatro y otras manifestaciones artísticas con la plena conciencia de que estamos ante...

Joanna Davis14:04, Jul 03 2021 Unsplash A credit card works too, at a pinch. I had to de-ice the car’s windscreen this morning. Our elderly dog refuses to go for a walk. The car’s thermometer read the outside temperature at 2 degrees as I dropped my son at his football game. Yes, it’s cold outside. This set of circumstances could be considered entirely predictable, considering it’s mid-winter, but it prompts this question from “Puzzled of Island Bay”: “As I work from home in th...

The Procession to Calvary comes to Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S via the usual Xbox Store download, and it’ll cost you £12.49 should you be willing to take that route. If you do, you’ll find a game that has been massively inspired by the brilliance of Monty Python as Digerati and Richardson come together with a fine point-and-click experience.  It’s the artstyle that is immediately apparent here and by taking hundreds of Renaissance paintings and mashing them up into a madcap montage of ...

Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory and entirely-forgotten Disney comedy The Million Dollar Duck. But other new arrivals suggested Hollywood’s confusion over just what audiences wanted at a point when strict old censorship rules had only recently collapsed (the G-to-X MPAA ratings system was just a couple years old), and the major studios were in a panic. Was Easy Rider the new model for commercial success? Or Airport? Hewing to something like the conservative latter model were a flop comb...

Jeff Bezos picks Wally Funk, a female aerospace pioneer, to accompany him in space SECTIONS Last Updated: Jul 02, 2021, 08:59 AM IST Share AP Wally Funk will join Jeff Bezos, his brother and the winner of a charity auction, as the first people to fly a New Shepard rocket. Related CAPE CANAVERAL (US): Blue Origins Jeff Bezos has chosen an early female aerospace pioneer - an 82-year-old pilot denied astronaut wings decades ago because of her gender - to rocket into space with him later this month...

Walking into Edgar Wright’s first documentary “The Sparks Brothers” (Focus Features-MRC-Complete Fiction Pictures, 2021, 140 min.), I confess I thought that Sparks was a one-hit wonder ‘80s new wave band, having only heard “Cool Places,” their 1983 collaboration with Jane Wiedlin. Little did I know that Sparks — Ron and Russell Mael — have been around since the late ‘60s in conjunction with other players.  If you show me a documentary about the Be...

Mixed Responses to INVEST in America Act July 01, 2021 There are other things that get passed that I will leave to your imagination ... House Democrats crafted it, House Republicans ridicule it, rail labor loves it, APTA likes it, AAR dismisses it, and ASLRRA notes it’s merely a first step in a tedious process: It’s H.R. 3684, the INVEST (Investing in a New Vision for the Environment and Surface Transportation) in America Act, passed by the full House in a largely partisan vote. It has a sn...

Pepe Escobar The West’s ‘rules-based order’ invokes rulers’ authority; Russia-China say it’s time to return to a law-based order Pres. Putin, Xi and Rouhani (forefront) all leaders of sovereign, anti-imperialist nations. Consequently all demonised by the propaganda harlots of the Western empire. We do live in extraordinary times. On the day of the 100 th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), President Xi Jinping, in Tiananmen square, amid all the pomp and circumstance, del...

Stephen Schaefer’s Hollywood & Mine Stephen Schaefer © Provided by Boston Herald This image released by Amazon shows Chris Pratt, from second left, Edwin Hodge and Sam Richardson in a scene from "The Tomorrow War." (Frank Masi/Amazon via AP) ‘The Tomorrow War’ stars Chris Pratt as a heroic father figure who has issues with his own father (J.K. Simmons).  As a $200 million sci-fi fantasy, ‘War’ begins as time-traveling Earthlings come from 30 years in the future, y...

by Pepe Escobar NATO vessels in Operation SeaBreeze 2021. Useless and dangerous acts designed to "poke the bear".  These criminal fools might get their wish and get swatted by Russias military power. Welcome to the latest NATO show: Sea Breeze starts today and goes all the way to July 23. The co-hosts are the US Sixth Fleet and the Ukrainian Navy. The main protagonist is Standing NATO Maritime Group 2. The show, in NATOspeak, is just an innocent display of “strenghtening deterrence and defen...