RI DAILY

Manhattan's little, quieter island and beyond

Daily beats from a quieter Manhattan.

RI DAILY

Manhattan's little, quieter island and beyond

Reporting Roosevelt Island since sunrise.

Month: July 2015

Bonnard Cat Art: Parody of Lunch With A Great Impressionist

About our Bonnard Cat Art Parody French impressionist Pierre Bonnard didn’t paint many cats, at least not as many among his canvases as I’d have liked. By David Stone Bonnard is one of my favorites. So are cats. I wish…

Wikipedia Fixes: Now Correcting Errors In Esther Hicks’s Page

Esther Hicks’s Wikipedia PR page challenges her trustworthiness of Wikipedia, not for the first time. Their page devoted to Esther Hicks is a yummy banquet for doubters of the online encyclopedia’s reliability. By David Stone Assorted Ideas, Large & Small…

Famous Artists’ Cats: Billy’s Monet Moment in Giverny’s Garden

About Monet’s Black Cat… I love Claude Monet, not as much as I love cats, but enough to have appreciated his paintings in more museum visits than I can count. By David Stone We all have images in our mind’s…

American Chat Noir, A Black Cat and His Pal Tour Paris

An American chat noir, our black cat in Paris, France, a cat adventure story… By David Stone Assorted Ideas, Large & Small I usually don’t remember where I get the ideas for my stories. Mostly, they pull together out of…

The Science Afterlife Problem… What’s It Really All About?

I love science. So, it bothers me when respected scientists take unscientific positions concerning “the afterlife.” A much broader ground of experience must be looked at from old, superstitious religious beliefs about life after death. The Science Afterlife Problem is…