CRC Blog

…but for good reason.

Creation delights in the recognition of itself.
–Ann Jauregui

Proof of a neighborhood legend.

We need to push the first show until next Wednesday Dec. 23rd. So stay tuned on.

We are still working on the details, but hopefully we will be ready to go tomorrow night. Are you ready Mr. Aarne?

“I stand before you tonight to represent the people who do not count: The poor, the poets, and the monks. As long as there are people who are trying to realize the divine in themselves, there shall be hope in the world.”

–Thomas Merton, a Catholic monk, intellectual, writer and seeker, at an interfaith conference in Calcutta. 1968.

Back in the early 70’s I did a goofy radio show with pretend guests. It was called “The Junkery Jack” show. I used my dad’s stereo combo turntable, complete with cassette recorder and built-in mike. I was Mr. Junkery Jack and my brother Nicolas played all the guests. Characters like the Incredible Hulk, Gumby, Clint Eastwood came on the show. The two of us would do our own silly commercials. My brother Marc, a professional radio personality and mixer even back then, encouraged us. He’s trying to find a copy of one of the shows he came across. If he does, I will share it with you.

I like the Radio medium. It’s old school, but I find it more intimate and organic than video. This is in part because of the “anything goes” YouTube craze, the “non-reality” Reality Show craze, and the “carefully crafted” Talk Show craze. When I had the time to do the CRC Show for Odeo (which I loved doing), I would interview a random person and ask them 3 Burning Questions. I want to bring this back on my personal blog, but in a simpler more doable fashion. I’d like to have a friendly philosophical chat with the old and potential new members of my “Safe Haven” blog community every Wednesday. I will look into the possibility of making it live as long as it doesn’t lock me into schedule that will be impossible for me to keep. Otherwise it will have to be pre-recorded before it airs. I will start next week with Mr. Aarne. Perhaps we will do this with Skype, but I know many of you don’t have Skype. Lazar, our webmaster magician, will figure something out that works for everybody.

How does everyone feel about this?

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
–Lord Byron

State of Grace

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‘try to be a little kinder.’
–Aldous Huxley