ratiocinations out of thin air and elsewhere
WHEN WE SAW “AVATAR” AGAIN in 2010, tickets were $9. As a kid, my mother gave my brother and me a quarter each and dropped us off at the theater to spend all day at the Saturday matinees. The quarter covered the 15¢ admission and left us enough to buy two boxes of candy each! [Continue reading]
BACK IN PRE-REAGAN AMERICA, back in the ’60s when the wealthy and the corporations still paid something resembling a reasonable tax rate, many (white) high schools in these here United States had a Guidance Counselor. This person’s job was to assist juniors and seniors in recognizing and understanding their interests and skills and guide them towards courses that might help them towards realizing the goal of a rewarding career. [Continue reading]
LIKE MANY BOYS of my generation, I went through a dinosaur phase in the early 1960s when I was 10-12 years old. I was fascinated by these huge beasts and my parents indulged my interest by buying me most of the better books on the subject. And there were also those few movies that had been made up till then that had something ‘dinosaurish’ about them. [Continue reading]