An American Drug Lord in Acapulco

How a high school jock from Texas rose to the top of one of Mexico's most powerful and ruthless cartels

Excerpt:   ....a few weeks later, one of Barbie's assistants was pulled over by the police on the way to a carwash in Mexico City. Two officers jumped out of their black truck, guns drawn. "Freeze, motherfucker!" they screamed. They demanded to know where Barbie was. "Where is that son of a bitch?" one officer said. "Don't bullshit, or I'll cut off your balls and feed them to you."

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https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/an-american-drug-lord-in-acapulco-20110825

When Einstein Visited Japan

“On the exquisiteness of the Japanese woman, this flower-like creature—I have also remained reticent; for here the common mortal must cede the word to the poet.”

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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/albert-einstein-visited-japan-180968737/

How “Seinfeld” and “The Simpsons” Changed TV Forever

 The debuts of “Seinfeld” and “The Simpsons,” like the debut of "Citizen Kane" or Bob Dylan's ‘electric’ performance at the Newport Folk Festival, expanded the boundaries of genre and medium. Television, comedy, and American culture have permanently changed.
 
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https://www.wilsonquarterly.com/quarterly/summer-2014-1989-and-the-making-of-our-modern-world/how-seinfeld-and-simpsons-changed-tv-forever/

Comforting Myths

"By the standards of the European industrial world, we are poor peasants, but when I embrace my grandfather I experience a sense of richness as though I am a note in the heartbeats of the very universe."

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 https://harpers.org/archive/2018/06/comforting-myths/

Mexican Masters

Master artisans in the Mexican state of Michoacan produce exquisite works of Art....

Pottery

https://vimeo.com/249752354

Copper

https://vimeo.com/249749574

Stonemasonary

https://vimeo.com/249743267

Landing New York | B777 Cockpit View 4K

Incredible cockpit view of a jet landing at JFK...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ckRAPgWwQY

Why We Can't Save Her

Powerful video from the International Committee for the Red Cross...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm0TYebjyHQ

Disney Animator Illustrates Life With Two Children After His Wife Passed Away

http://www.24hviralphotos.com/disney-animator-illustrates-life-with-two-children-after-his-wife-passed-away-and-it-will-break-your-heart-21-pics/

L.A. Dreamers

Five Japanese girls meet in Los Angeles. They are far from home but they have same goal, chase the dream of becoming hip hop dancers.

Shot on Arri Alexa Mini and Zeiss Standard 2.1
Directed By
Dani Fortuny

Watch Video here....
https://vimeo.com/153879475

I LOVE NY

The short time I spent living in Spanish Harlem will not be forgotten....I Love NY.  A visual and heart-warming dedication to NY and the man behind the famous logo...
https://vimeo.com/270244268

From Memory to Myth: The Adventures of Patrick Leigh Fermor

The daring exploits and beguiling charm of the 20th century’s greatest travel writer...

https://www.weeklystandard.com/dominic-green/from-memory-to-myth-the-adventures-of-patrick-leigh-fermor

Stories from the Sinai

Excerpt:   "We were sitting on a dune overlooking the glittering Red Sea east of Sinai. The mountains of Saudi Arabia could be seen in the distance. It was 1984.

With me were the renowned smuggler-poet Ayaad and his eldest son, Salim. They had asked me to join them “to discuss something serious,” out of earshot of those who were encamped with them. We knew each other well. I had been recording and studying Bedouin poetry for some fifteen years, and Ayaad was the best poet in Sinai.

Once we were seated in the sand, our legs folded before us, Salim, facing me, opened the...

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https://hudsonreview.com/2018/04/stories-from-sinai/

Want to feel unique? Believe in the Reptile people.

He who believes bin Laden is still alive will have something in common with she who believes the 1% are reptiles masquerading as humans: the need to feel unique. For someone with a conspiracy mentality, what matters most is their exclusive knowledge.

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https://aeon.co/ideas/want-to-feel-unique-believe-in-the-reptile-people

The Problem of Hyper Liberalism

Excerpt:  "In institutions that proclaim their commitment to critical inquiry, censorship is most effective when it is self-imposed. A defining feature of tyranny, the policing of opinion is now established practice in societies that believe themselves to be freer than they have ever been."

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https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/john-gray-hyper-liberalism-liberty/

The Serial Killer as Marketing Genius

 An ode to a bygone era and one man's hunt for one of America's most elusive serial killers.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-serial-killer-as-a-marketing-genius