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I read something online the other day from someone proclaiming Rice University: "The Harvard of the South."

That's funny, I said to myself, because I always thought Duke University was supposed to be the "Harvard of the South."

Not all creativity deserves expression.  Editing passionate inspiration with the instinct of a formed aesthetic is a necessary filtering of the creative impulse.

Dananjay Anandan wrote this article.

Many years ago, I first saw one of these chairs at a relative's home where it served as a thoughtful convenience next to the shoe racks.

Running on CPT is a Racist phrase originally used against Black people to generically describe their lack of time management -- but it can now also be effectively used on anyone who is perpetually late.  "CPT" translates to "Colored People's Time."

Yesterday, in my WordPunk article -- Built for Beautiful Failing -- I wondered if Art hates or heals.  Yesterday, in the New York Times, I received a reply to my query in a story concerning an Art display in a vacant Midtown store: "The Assassination of Hillary Clinton/The Assassination of Barack Obama."

We are always driven to move forward, to change, and to never stand still.  Today, I wonder if there is value in standing your ground and solace in the stillness of celebrating where you stand.

When and where did you drink the best cup of coffee you ever had the honor of tasting and swallowing?

Dananjay Anandan wrote this article.

It was sometime in the late nineties and I was still in college. It was the month of January and IIT, Madras was hosting "Saarang," its annual cultural festival, and I, along with thousands of other college-goers from all over the country and overseas flocked to each of the five days that the festivities spanned.

We are a current culture obsessed by, infected with, and clamoring for -- the female breast.  Have we always been breast-centric beings?  Or is the modern breast in situ only our latest distraction from the real perils of the earthly world? 

Let's turn to art to help inform the context that creates our culture.  Early ocher cave paintings and even hieroglyphs made clothing -- more than the bare breast -- the most distinctive identifier of the human form:

Have you ever been in a ridiculous situation that you found funny or dangerous that then became a sublime experience?