Running through Nicola White’s neighborhood is a portal to the past. It leaves clues and remnants of past ages. She has no need for time machines when the River Thames is accessible. For generations the Thames has been the receptacle of generations of trash. What man has thrown away in the Thames, has fallen to…
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Bob Balaban Rebecca Hall RIchard Kind Reeve Carney Morgan Spector Reggie D. White Christopher Lloyd Alec Baldwin A Night to Remember By Rob Cain My cousin sent me a heads up. It seems there is a yearly event called The Decades Ball, at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City, and since my tux…
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I was sitting outside Starbucks today, and saw this lady with this interesting Teeshirt. She was one of two conducting a leadership conference for entrepreneurs and she and her partner were handing out appreciation awards to their team. They were about to break up and head over to “registration” when I stopped her for a…
Read MoreEditor’s Note: A note from Rob Cain (Stray thoughts). I am told that in Kipling’s time of the RAJ, that there were Brits that stayed in India rather than return home. Kipling himself, was born in India. Though there are many similarities and differences between Imperial Britain and the Roman Empire, Kipling’s poem (below) has…
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An Investigative Report on the influence of Bast in the London Metropolitan Area Rob Cain’s Historical Detective Agency Field Report: Submitter: Agent Tag ‘Toggle’ Montague, London Office December 12, 2021. http://ancientromerefocused.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/rob-chains-main.mov Boss, the rumors are true. We have been getting reports of the God Bast showing up in parts of London for some years…
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Helen in Hell “And were you pleased?” they asked of Helen in Hell. “Pleased?” answered she, “when all Troy’s towers fell, And dead were Priam’s sons, and lost his throne, And such a war was fought as none had known, And even the gods took part, and all because Of me alone? Pleased? ….”I should…
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The painting above is titled: Pan and Syrinx, c.1620/25, by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), Location: The Royal Collection London United Kingdom The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen Steven King called the The Great God Pan as, “Maybe the best [horror story] in the English Language. King was right. It’s a creepy little book, but well…
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by Bertolt Brecht Brecht is one of the most influential playwrights of the 20th Century. In college I saw a black and white movie of his production THREE PENNY OPERA. The play was stark, and the music (composed by Kurt Weill) strange and memorable. When I discovered that a recent publishing of his unfinished novel…
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