The VENICE FIRST LOVE episode of VENICE BEACH SKETCHES. VENICE FIRST LOVE , a variant on Turgenev’s short story, is about  a shy college student, who  stalks the dazzling coed of his dreams, only to discover, to his dismay, that he is not that great a stalker after all. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsxeY4Xsx4M&feature=youtu.be VENICE BEACH SKETCHES explores the decline of the American male as a heroic figure as a result of the gender wars in contemporary California. Each episode is a variant of a short story or play from Turgenev, Coward and Sartre .

20 th Century Beat Generation Poet Allen Ginsberg once conjured up a dangerously Orwellian aphorism, sublimely applicable to the 21 st Century up to this date: " Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture ." TIME Magazine named German Chancellor Angela Merkel as its 2015  PERSON OF THE YEAR for her humanitarian response to the refugee crisis; she single handedly allowed over ONE MILLION, none vetted, refugees into Germany. However, Chancellor Merkel’s response, which will change German culture forever, was a response…..to an image, nothing more, nothing less. The image was the corpse of a three year old Syrian refugee, Aylan Kurti, washed up on a Turkish beach(see below), drowned trying to get to Europe. Therefore this Blogger has named Aylan Kurti, the drowned boy whose heart wrenching end birthed that momentous image, THE MAXEY CHRONICLES’2015 PERSON OF THE YEAR. Aylan Kurti’s death, and the image of his death, has changed, perhaps irrevoca...

MICHAEL SANFORD and LISA MARIS star in the VENICE REMATCH episode of VENICE BEACH SKETCHES. VENICE REMATCH is a variant on Noel Coward’s BRIEF ENCOUNTER; a rapidly failing screenwriter accidentally meets his highly successful ex-wife just as he is about to marry, MISS BUTTERMILK AEROBICS. Old hopes, pains, passions and disappointments reappear to cry havoc once again. VENICE REMATCH is an episode of VENICE BEACH SKETCHES- A TOUCH OF CHEKHOV in Contemporary Venice, California. Synopsis: Over five episodes, VENICE BEACH SKETCHES explores the decline of the American male as a heroic figure as a result of the gender wars in contemporary California. Each episode is a variant of a short story or play from Turgenev, Coward and Sartre. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMm0NaB_E_w

Remarkably this Blogger has many  physicists , and  divinity students reading him. So this Blog is for them. This week there was an experiment in an European university which trashed Albert Einstein’s world view of physics; and  arguably made Protestant theologian John Calvin the greatest  physicist  in human history. God is an Einstein  hidden variable, hidden but when he does appear his visage seems to be extraordinary. Moses who saw God a lot, was asked by his fellow Israelites to wear a veil , so other humans could not be disturbed by his visage, the visage which was a by-product of seeing  God. Seemingly God stays invisible because he wrecks havoc on those who sees him. In fact, it is reasonable to believe that God is beyond being a hidden variable, he is what Einstein called “a spooky thing.” Einstein was calling the unknowns beyond hidden variables in quantum theory "Spooky things", but  what that latest European exper...

This Blogger loves the Egyptian people; they are kind, good natured, and gracious. Made worshipers of fellow humans by incestuous Pharaohs,conquered by Hittites, Nubians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, British, among others, they have survived into graciousness.  With their history, graciousness  should not be there, but it is, just like the Nile. Cairo has an infrastructure built for maybe 3 to 4 million people; it must have been fabulous to live there in the late forties and  early 1950s, just like Hollywood and Mexico City must have been in those golden years. Cairo had glamour then. But alas, it is now like the now Mexico City, a great old lady, now too old for her burden. Today, Cairo’s metro area has a population of about 20.8 million people; Cairo is the 16th most populous metro area in the world. It is also the most populous metropolitan area in Africa, a lot of people for an infrastructure built to sustain 3 million souls. One night, th...

This Blogger receives a substantial number of emails asking him to address and rank President Obama’s policy mistakes. Let me assure those Readers, there is plenty of time for that before the next Presidential Election. Let us instead address President Obama’s three major Jungian Mistakes, which crippled his Leadership capability, and Leadership projection. America’s adversaries are led by men who could have risen to power and leadership in any age in recorded history. Not so with President Obama, his rise to power is specific to feminized Millennial America. Why? Because president Obama is the most feminized President in American History, and after Trump, or Cruz or Clinton is elected President, he will still remain the most feminized President in American History. On September 23, 2013; this Blogger published this Blog: Russian Speculation   about What President Putin REALLY Thinks of President Obama’s Masculine Spirituality.... http://themaxeychronicles.blogspot.com/20...