Alice Coltrane On Piano Jazz: “Coltrane performs her own ‘Transfiguration’ and joins host Marian McPartland in ‘Giant Steps.’” (Via NPR Programs: Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz.)

This is an airplane shot of the large eruption in Iceland yesterday afternoon. The volcano, Grimsvotn, projected a very large plume of ash high into the atmosphere, and was captured in HD by this Icelander. movie is free for download over at the icelandic public television website: http://www.ruv.is/frett/nyjar-myndir-fra-grimsvatnagosinu

With a shock of white hair and matching beard, Wole Soyinka was a striking figure as he indulged a rapt audience at the New York Public Library as the closing speaker for the PEN World Voices Festival. Soyinka’s take on the “Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture” was imbued with perfect diction, mythical metaphors, and [...]

It’s best to not waste ones time saying anything unfavorable on a corporate controlled fan site. I decided to look at the Avatar official website where I found a link to their “fan page.” It was a typepad blog themed for the movie. I never should have left a single comment because they got deleted. [...]

Whoopie, I saw Avatar in 3D. *sigh* Aside from the technical aspects of the movie, it was so utterly predictable I really felt like walking out. The script was on so low a level of quality, I honestly think the interesting movie would have been about HOW the movie was made, not the movie itself. [...]