What the Flock? The Miracle Of Murmuration

December 30, 2011

A show-stopping viral video illustrates how nature can turn on us — and on itself – in a nanosecond. We must be ready. There’s a name for this phenomenon—MURMURATION. It’s simply a massive moving flock of starlings. Technically it’s a collective noun – much like a gaggle of geese or a school of fish. The [...]

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The Art of Living: My Friend Bill Hall

December 24, 2011

He never touched paintbrush to canvas, or molded a lump of clay in his hands. He never tried to bend and mold steel to his will, but just because of the way he lived his life, and did his work, Bill Hall was an artist. Hall, who died yesterday, was the longtime weatherman at WSMV-TV [...]

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Bad Lip Reading: The Art of Digital Dissing (Part Deux)

December 15, 2011

Just for laughs. If the The International Congress of Humor is right — “laughter is down 66 – 82% worldwide compared to what it was in the 1950s.” Experts say back then people laughed on the average 18 minutes a day — and today, we are lucky if we average between 4-6 minutes. So I [...]

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Bad Lip Reading: The Art of Digital Dissing

November 27, 2011

Call me sophomoric,  but when I watched these clips, I laughed until started gasping for air. The kind of out-of-control laughter you experience when you’re supposed to be silent, and reverent in church. As of this writing, the author of this extraordinarily popular – unintentionally irreverent — viral video series remains anonymous. My hunch is — [...]

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The Art of the Haul

November 21, 2011

Truckers in traffic: The art of abstraction is freeway close. I guess you could call me obsessed. The Oxford dictionary says I would be labeled as such if I became “preoccupied with something… continually, intrusively, and to a troubling extent.” Guilty. I can’t help it. I see 18-wheelers or old farm trucks and I’m sucked into [...]

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