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One of my plays I'm offering for FREE today (11/28) and FREE tomorrow (11/29) to anyone. :)
The Untold Story of Pyramus and Thisbe
I'm shouting to hear the echoes here people - to see if you can find any value in this play of mine, too - and say so back to me. You don't have to write a...
The Quent Cordair Fine Art gallery "Haiku and Win" contest, that I was invited to write in, has ended for the inclusion of more entries, but the voting of the entries that have been entered, is still going on until November 5th. This is the FB event contest site...
Well, the e-ink hasn't even dried yet on my first two published plays The Untold Story of Narcissus and Echo (7/25/2013) and Pygmalion's PlayGal (8/2/13), and here my third play has now also been published, The Untold Story of Pyramus and Thisbe.
It is a dramatic contemporary telling of the...
Now that my first play, The Untold Story of Narcissus and Echo, has been published last week, today my second play has been published and is now available for purchase here:
Pygmalion's PlayGal
The play involves the Greek myth of Pygmalion and Galatea.
It's a dramatic contemporary telling of...
My first play has now been published and is available for purchase.
Here is a link to it on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Untold-Story-Narcissus-Echo-ebook/dp/B00E6FYV6O/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1374951591&sr=1-1
The play involves the myth of Narcissus and Echo.
It's a dramatic...
Ayn Rand's Anthem is now a play! It will be performed in NYC for 10 weeks, this is the first I have heard of this stage adaptation of her novella, but here is the website:
http://www.anthemtheplay.com/
I just started looking into the apps, even though I have had my Kindle Fire HD since the first day they came out, but I found a great one that is free, it's called InkPad Notepad.
Let's you take notes, auto-saves it, stores it, and you can share it like sending the note to an email address...
Before I begin, I would like to preface my review with a very important quote by the Ayn Rand Institute on Ayn Rand in regards to capital punishment, as my review is about a Capital Case, State of Florida v. Casey Anthony:
“She thought it was morally just, but legally dangerous—because of the...
For those that read Atlas Shrugged,
In Galts speech, he specifically speaks at one point to "those who desire to live" (stating on p.1166)
"withdraw your sanction"
"go on strike - in the manner I did" and "let them drown; your sanction is their only life belt."
and
"when the advocates of...
My Review of Tara Smith’s Ayn Rand’s Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist
In this book, Tara Smith does a thorough job in her presentation of Ayn Rand’s brand of egoism, rational egoism. How one leads a selfish life by taking the proper kinds of actions required to advance ones...
Lunch Break: Short Stories and Poems written by Quent Cordair
On the cover of this collection, is Quent Cordair’s lovely oil on canvas titled “Lunch Break”. You can see it here on his art gallery site, Quent Cordair Fine Art, which features the Romantic Realism in art, such as...
Living Proof
The debit novel of Kira Peikoff
The novel opens up in the year 2027, and we find that it is considered first degree murder to destroy an embryo. This has happened because the separation of church and state, isn't so separated, that the views of the religion get into politics...
The DIM Hypothesis: Why The Lights in The West Are Going Out by Leonard Peikoff
In this recently published work (Sept. 2012), Objectivist philosopher Dr. Leonard Peikoff presents his DIM Hypothesis, which is epistemological in that it deals with chosen methods of thought, integration. There...
For those of you familiar with Gen LaGreca, she has another book coming out in 2013, titled, A Dream of Daring.
Right now her book, Noble Vision, is only 0.99 for the Kindle edition of it.
Noble Vision: A Novel: Gen LaGreca: Amazon.com: Kindle Store
I love this book dearly, so I...
I just heard about Radical Handmaid's on my way to work and finally have some time to look more into them. Those familiar with Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, these red clad radical handmaids are not sitting around idly while Canada descend into Gilead, but they are activists protesting...
Atlas Shrugged Part 2 (part 2 of 3, of a film based upon Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged) will be out in select theatres on Oct. 12th, 2012.
I intend on seeing it in the theatres probably sometime that opening weekend.
Here is the website:
Atlas Shrugged Movie (Official Site)
I really...
My review of Nathaniel Branden’s The Art of Living Consciously
The Art of Living Consciously: The Power of Awareness to Transform Everyday Life: Nathaniel Branden: 9780684838496: Amazon.com: Books
The author, Nathaniel Branden, is the well known and well respected pioneer of the...
100 Voices: An Oral History of Ayn Rand by Scott McConnell (2010)
100 Voices: An Oral History of Ayn Rand: Scott McConnell: Amazon.com: Books
This book is a collection of 100 interviews from people that have known Ayn Rand, as an acquaintance, as an employee of hers, family member… All...
My review of Tara Smith’s Viable Values: A Study of Life as the Root and Reward of Morality
She critiques the historically major positions of morality and in so doing, show shows through the first chapters, just how they all fail to answer properly the very first question on which morality...