Story can come in the form of true story or in fiction. When the author doesn’t tell you, it may be up to you to decide. I always loved how author Snoopy on the Peanuts comic strip used to begin his stories with “it was a dark and stormy night…” This story is a cartoon […]
Author Archives: B. Kaufmann
An open letter of and to Discovery
December 28, 2010 – 1:53 pm
An open letter to David Zazlav and the Discovery Channel Board of Directors: I would like to share with you something really important: “I am a huge fan Of Michael Jackson and im 11 years old i do not feel right that Michael Jackson’s Autopsy is going to air on Discovery Channel I mean he would […]
An Artist’s Portrait: A Christmas gift from Inner Michael
December 24, 2010 – 11:22 pm
How to you paint a man who is the most famous face on Earth? How do you do justice to a face that many have called beautiful when speaking about the face of a man? And this is a face that shape-shifted over the decades he was in the public eye. The consummate shaman always […]
To reclaim our humanity…
December 22, 2010 – 3:16 pm
Just when you think there is no more that they can do to this man– or the name, image, reputation, and legacy of Michael Jackson, along comes the Discovery Channel… had you told me human beings were capable of this depravity now, I would have argued with you that we had evolved beyond this… I am wrong. […]
The Soul Train has Left the Station
December 16, 2010 – 10:58 pm
I have been doing my retro-research. I have been spending time in places I would rather be—in the past. I shake my head because I want to know how can we be a decade into the new millennium? How can Motown be a relic? How can Soul Train be a walk back into yesteryear, a […]
First, Do No Harm
December 12, 2010 – 6:26 pm
Human beings can do really horrifying things to other human beings. History is full of evidence of human nastiness toward other humans. I have had occasions where I misunderstood people’s intentions or I have been wrong about the motives of others. When I was in Russia helping to build the social infrastructure and support for the […]
Beyond the Twilight Zone
December 7, 2010 – 9:14 pm
Where is Rod Serling when you need him? Serling was the originator of a TV anthology series called “The Twilight Zone.” Serling’s voice imitation can be heard on Michael Jackson’s Invincible Album in Threatened. Serling’s Twilight Zone series took on contemporary themes and covertly satirized them. Through science fiction, the writers of Twilight Zone took on issues […]
The Last Word
November 29, 2010 – 8:09 pm
“The last word, like the last supper, should be a feast.” ~BK I recently visited at “A Place In Your Heart” radio with Reverend Doctor Catherine Gross and we spoke about words. And the same day, November 19, 2010, I released the new “Words” video that was produced for the Voices Education Project “Words and Violence” […]
More “Words”
November 24, 2010 – 2:02 pm
Words on signs… words on TV… Words on Facebook… we don’t talk now, we twitter… we text—words. Our words: characterize, patronize, marginalize, politicize, ostracize, magnetize, popularize, moralize, stigmatize, symbolize, canonize, recognize, harmonize, satirize, sensationalize, proselytize, criticize, categorize, humanize, rationalize, galvanize, lionize, eulogize, mesmerize, fantasize, criminalize, globalize, compartmentalize, sanitize, publicize, finalize, desensitize, strategize, demonize, idealize, subsidize, […]
The Video: Michael Inspired, Michael Approved
November 19, 2010 – 6:56 pm
The new “Words” Video for Voices Education Project is now available. We hope you will share it with everyone… To the Curriculum Authors: Words. How to I find them? Where do they hide? How do I thank you? How do I put that feeling into a script? Sometimes even wordsmiths are at a loss for words. Sometimes […]
