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Ramblin' Gamblin' Willie's Christmas storiesDisintermediate the ruling class
Man Alive! A survival manual for the human mind
A free eBook of moral philosophyMy other writing isn't collected in one place, but here's a shopping list for finding the best of it:
- Greg Swann writes – fiction and early essays.
- PresenceOfMind.net – a weblog I maintained in the early years of the new millenium.
- BloodhoundBlog – a national real estate weblog I started and contribute to. Much of the content there will be real estate related, but everything I write is focused on the self, and this is best represented in the longer essays.
- SelfAdoration.com – a weblog devoted to the philosophical defense of ontologically-consonant egoism.
New at SelfAdoration.com- Lies all the way down: Ventilating Uncle Willie’s Father’s Day funk.
- Why I read Ibsen.
- Telling long stories about other people’s nightmares — for Father’s Day.
- Redemption is egoism in action: My eBook “Janio at a Point” is yours free for the downloading.
- Reflections of the irresistible by way of one drop in an ocean of love.
SplendorQuest done socially
Category Archives: Splendor
Celebrating humanity for the New Year: You are as large as you want to be, as good as you choose to be.
My observation for the New Year, left as a comment at The Atlantic. It’s plausible to me that my remarks will incite ugly displays of self-loathing, but that’s what I get for speaking up there. Here is my note, a … Continue reading
What a difference a quarter-century makes: A video tour of Las Vegas Boulevard in 1988.
By way of VegasTripping.com, a 25 minute video exploring the Paradise Strip and Las Vegas Boulevard in January of 1988: From the creator of the video: Las Vegas Strip street drive from 1988. I taped this from the car window … Continue reading
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Start the day dancing: Waiting For My Real Life To Begin by Colin Hay
Any minute now… I heard this in the movie Morning Glory — a charming send-up of early-morning “news” shows. My kind of movie: Everyone is a better person in the end. I laughed all the way through, and I loved … Continue reading
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Hallelujah! A book about about a single song is the ultimate tribute to the genius of Leonard Cohen.
The baffled king composing Hallelujah? It turns out it was Leonard Cohen. Start here: From The Atlantic Monthly, How Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah Became Everybody’s Hallelujah. That article is an overview of a new book by Alan Light, The Holy or … Continue reading
Memo to Hollywood: Your time is up. No one will pay a premium price for a leering, sneering wink.
A comment from an LA Times story insisting that TV is not either dead: Paul G Newton at 11:46 PM December 03, 2012 I believe that the networks will, no must, embrace the new media. In the past few years … Continue reading
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Salman Khan talks to Charlie Rose about the founding of the Khan Academy.
Commenting on this post on the Khan Academy, Joe Brady fingered this YouTube video, Salman Khan talking to Charlie Rose about the origins of the Khan Academy: Further notice: Salman Khan’s book on the Khan Academy experience: The One World … Continue reading
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Yo, poor boy! Stop sniveling. Compared to your grandparents, you are rich, rich, rich!
Don Boudreaux at Cafe Hayek, comparing the value of ordinary labor in Golden Age of the 19050s versus today: Refrigerator-freezer Sears’s lowest-priced no-frost refrigerator-freezer in 1956 had 9.6 cubic feet, in total, of space. It sold for $219.95. (You can … Continue reading
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