by Sasha Stone | Feb 3, 2019 | Bob Dylan, In Dreams, Obsessions, POETS, ROCKGODS, THE WEIRDNESS OF LIFE, TO MUSE
One of the best Bob Dylan songs without a doubt is I’ll Keep it With Mine. It’s so good, of course, that PJ Harvey quotes it in her song Oh My Lover. “Give me your troubles, I’ll keep them with mine.” There is, of course, the famous Nico...
by Sasha Stone | Sep 13, 2013 | THE WEIRDNESS OF LIFE
When I do a google search for my name three Sasha Stones appear. I already encountered a young English girl named Sasha Stone on my facebook. We’re friends now. But the three who are most known on the internet are all interesting in their own ways. But they...
by Sasha Stone | Jul 28, 2013 | EVOLUTION-OBSESSION, THE WEIRDNESS OF LIFE
In his latest piece for the New York Times, Nicolas Kristof ruminates on two documentaries – the Act of Killing and Blackfish. He doesn’t really see an end to our ongoing ambivalence as a culture towards inhumane treatment of animals but he believes we...
by Sasha Stone | Apr 22, 2010 | EVOLUTION-OBSESSION, THE WEIRDNESS OF LIFE, TO MUSE
I came across this story from New Scientist about what makes life worth living if you take away religion. From a brain perspective, there ought to be a good reason why a person feels like bothering with this life. It ain’t easy. It ain’t pretty. And it...
by Sasha Stone | Apr 11, 2010 | THE WEIRDNESS OF LIFE
Oh god. There are many aspects to celebrity culture that freak my shit out but none more than Heidi Montag. The first thing I ever knew about her was that I couldn’t stand her. It’s not even worth my time to explain why because my goal was to make it...
by Sasha Stone | Jan 23, 2010 | Featured, THE WEIRDNESS OF LIFE
This story has to be one of the saddest ever: COPAKE, N.Y. – State police in New York say an upstate dairy farmer shot and killed 51 of his milk cows in his barn before turning the rifle on himself. State police found the body of 59-year-old Dean Pierson in his...