2017 Hands Off A Potentially Historical Arc for Freedom To 2018

Posted on January 1, 2018 by bfaure Leave a comment

Each year reaches exhaustion on the Gregorian Calendar at the same time midnight December 31st. Since Pope Gregory in 1587 determined Julius Caesar’s calendar was sufficiently out of sync that an extra day was required every four years to leap the calendar forward and secure it appropriately with the seasons, we have counted our transition […]... Read More

The Great and Terrible Wizard of Trump

Posted on December 1, 2017 by bfaure 4 Comments

November 8th, 2016 represented a cornucopia of shattered illusions about the United States of America. A thirty year meme had been assumed, that our country had entered into a new social consensus, having risen above individual concepts of rights and moralities, to a progressive consciousness. The establishment convinced itself it understood the modern concept of […]... Read More

P.A. Nisbet : The Neverchanging meets the Everchanging

Posted on November 19, 2017November 20, 2017 by bfaure 1 Comment

The Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis, Indiana is dedicated “to inspire an appreciation and understanding of the art, history and cultures of the American West and the indigenous peoples of North America”. Like several other distinguished American museums, such as the Gilcrease in Tulsa and the Autry in Los Angeles, the Eiteljorg presents the projection of […]... Read More

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What Happened?

Posted on October 28, 2017 by bfaure Leave a comment

If you are Vladimir Putin, you are probably always a little surprised how easy it is to screw with democracies. The formula is straight forward. Inject a little a little disinformation into the mix, then sit back and satisfyingly watch the show evolve into more than you could have ever hoped for. Having to stew […]... Read More

The Emptiness of Modernity

Posted on October 14, 2017October 15, 2017 by bfaure 1 Comment

In the cauldron of what passes for the day’s news is the ongoing pathetic accumulation of stories of decades of abuse and sexual harassment imposed by the leading figure of Hollywood’s film industry upon untold starlets and aspiring actresses. At the beginning of October, Harvey Weinstein stood like a colossus over the production of cinematic […]... Read More

Fall Leaf Follies

Posted on September 17, 2017 by bfaure 1 Comment

Don’t look now but fall is just about upon us. The oh too short period of clement weather and bountiful harvest that leads to brief moments of frivolity before the serious impact of winter. A time for finding a good leaf pile and jumping in for the sheer escapism and harmlessness. It’ll get serious […]... Read More

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American History is no longer Statuesque

Posted on August 28, 2017 by bfaure Leave a comment

In 1884, 19 years removed from the intense passions of the brutal interlude of the American Civil War, an illustrious crowd led by Confederate royalty, including the former President of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, the Confederate General Beauregard, and two daughters of General Lee, saw the dignified and solemn statue of the Confederacy’s most famous […]... Read More

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An American Original – Glenn Campbell

Posted on August 9, 2017August 9, 2017 by bfaure Leave a comment

The current over enhanced and emotion deadened noise that passes for modern American popular music has separated us from the power that once was evoked from the marriage of lyric, voice, and musicianship that represented the golden age of music performance and recording. Self absorbed and over engineered performers play one generic tome after another, […]... Read More

Miracle at Dunkirk: Re-Imagining History in the Post History Age

Posted on July 23, 2017July 23, 2017 by bfaure 1 Comment

I recently had the occasion to see Director Christopher Nolan’s cinematic epic “Dunkirk”. We have been through a period in cinema , depicting heroism relegated to the contrived world of comic super heroes and steroid injected Ubermen, where courage is universal because personal risk is essentially eliminated. The real world is altogether different, where courage […]... Read More

Daniel Gerhartz: Reflecting Beauty, Seeking the Sublime

Posted on July 15, 2017July 17, 2017 by bfaure Leave a comment

When you are good friends with someone with immense talent, your perspective on their accomplishments is sometimes akin, like Icarus, to flying too close to the sun. Attracted by the brilliance, you can become blinded to the risk of loss of reflection on what is transpiring. My friend Daniel Gerhartz, like Daedalus, has carefully treaded […]... Read More

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