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Poetry and the Police

Posted on November 4, 2026 by Richard Guzman

I have told the following story many, many times but never written it down. And this writing follows a circuitous path involving two poets celebrated in the Video below: Ada Limon and Major Jackson. The Video shows two of their … Continue reading →

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AI and Humanity’s End

Posted on September 15, 2026 by Richard Guzman

This is a rather light-hearted commentary for such a serious subject.  In fact, it is accompanied by a Video below not of the doomsayers of the past few days, but of three of my favorite AI commercials put out by … Continue reading →

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Is Disneyland Worth It?

Posted on February 18, 2026 by Richard Guzman

On the auspicious sounding date of January 1st 2000 a fairly famous book on the Walt Disney empire was published.  Called Deconstructing Disney, it used the literary technique of deconstruction to look mainly at Disney films from 1937’s Snow White to … Continue reading →

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