Why is this clown holding the moon and smiling?

I enjoyed 9 years at the State University of New York at Buffalo acquiring a BA, MAH, MLS, and a PhD, while serving on the UB Film Committee, teaching classes, and acting as Arts Coordinator for College B.

..I played saxophone in a rock band called Pale Fire, but I was never close to the artistry of Charlie Parker or John Coltrane or Johnny Almond or fun loving Louis Jordan.

Life may seem random, chaotic, and absurd, but at last we have art to give our lives structural meaning through recurring motifs or patterns that anchor us against the anarchy.

I love teaching film classes like Film Comedy, Intro to Cinema, Sports in Literature and Film, Contemporary Cinema, and Women and Films, to showcase movies like Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Cleocatra, My Big Cat Greek Wedding, Cat in the Hat, Catatouille, Catman, and The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, and the Cat.

.Do families still break bread together at mealtime to share what has gone on in their lives, or has that custom gone the way of the horse and buggy?

I've tried to love computers, but they always seem to let me down at the most crucial moments, kind of like my Fantasy Football guys.

Dance is the beauty of human artistry in motion.

Why do I love this painting?

Will we go the way of the dinosaurs?

Americans are proud to be a melting pot of diversity, cherishing all the wonders each culture bestows upon us.

The basis of writing is rewriting.

Do you ever feel you're going nowhere? Sign up for classes at MCC to find your true way.

The cosmos is fascinating though your mind can come unraveled as you try to solved this ultimate mystery: How did the universe begin? Is the Big Bang Theory correct in asserting that everything began 13.8 billion years ago when something smaller than an electron exploded in a minute fraction of a second to create our current macrocosm, and if so, what existed before the Big Bang, and what caused it suddenly and randomly to detonate? Did it do so totally by itself, since nothing else existed but why did it do so? That's actually not that far from the religious point on view in the Biblical line "Let there be light" to describe the beginning, except that those who believe simply say God has always existed because He/She is God who started the whole Big Bang process. Which answer makes more sense to you?

What would ET be most likely to read - science fiction or more realistic, down to earth literature?

What's it like up there?

Stay off hard drugs, especially in Singapore.

I like horror films that tell a compelling story, where the excessive gore doesn't overwhelm the fate of the three dimensional characters we identify with and root for.

Break out of your claustrophobic cocoon and communicate your thoughts through writing. You might surprise yourself. Start with a poem.

The majority of young people today say that their main goal is to be famous? Is your dream to be a star?

Uh oh. Slow down.

Kansas City's Plaza is magnificent, especially in Winter.

I was there when the Kansas City Royals won the World Series.

Hsve you ever been head over heels in love?

Morgan Freeman's Through the Wormhole will really expand the parameters of your universe. I wish they had used it as a teaching resource in my physics classes.

Your chance of being hit by lightning are 1 in 13,000 and the lightning bolt contains 15 million volts of electricity, so that the effect is that of 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit shocking your body, 5 times that of the sun's surface. Walter Summerford, a British Officer, was struck by lightning 3 times in his life, every 6 years, on 2 different continents. After his death, his gravestone was struck by lightning, again six years later for the 4th time.

I've always wanted to live in a lighthouse, but I'm not sure how iI would hang my pictures and paintings.

Is art a replication of reality, an enhancement, or a re-imagination?

Don't see this film. I recommended it and watched it with friends, and they said it was pointless and a waste of time. They still like me but no longer trust my suggestions.

Is this man so prim and proper that he is turning his back on any sensory engagement?

Because of your exemplary life, you have been allowed to create your own Heaven. What would yours be like?

Are we the masters of our destiny, free to choose our path, or is there some truth to this observation from The Matrix: "Choice is an illusion created between those with power and those without."

The mind is a many layered, many leveled thing, like a maze from which some never escape.

Art is a concept that all civilizations share and opens new vistas to stimulate us to explore.

With imagination you can be anywhere and do anything.

It must be admitted that there are many unique characters in academia,

Who is that Easter Bunny?

Why is he screaming and why does the world contort to his scream? And why has this painting been stolen so many times? It's enough to make you S....

Education provides a bridge to a better life, but you have to be an active participant in he process, not a passive sheep. Raise your hand occasionally and shock everyone with your unique insights.

Education should not be isolated from, but truly involved in, and relevant to, the real world.

The last year I lived in Buffalo, it had 200 inches of snow, and students in the dorms were jumping out of second and third story windows.

J. Howard Miller created this iconic and inspiring poster with red, white, and blue patriotic colors, but no one knows who was the original model. It has been a bobblehead, an action figure, and the world's largest museum for children in Indianapolis features a 4 by 5 ft replica by artist Kristen Cummings composed entirely of Jelly Belly Candies.

If you could ask a Supreme Being one question what would it be?

Human Being to God: "Can I ask you one and only question?"

God: "You already have. Thank you."

After a black hole has formed, it can continue to grow by swallowing mass from its surroundings, including stars, planets, and galaxies. Should we fear black holes? What can an average citizen do to prevent our planet's absorption and demise?

I love this type of art - bold and bright and maximalist, the furthest from a minimalist perspective - every inch of canvas pulsing with the enthusiasm of life.

"Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel," exclaimed Horace Walpole, author of the first horror novel, The Castle of Otranto in 1764.

I collect ties, the more unusual the better. There is an actual tie I could have purchased which ends in a hanging miniature goldfish bowl containing real aquatic animals, but I decided against it. Too much work for a tie.

Venice is truly amazing. What did Attila the Hun have to do with its creation and how is Winnie the Pooh similar to Attila the Hun?

Don't get seasick. lost in this moving still.

Is it a Wonderful Life?

Willy Loman to Biff in Death of a Salesman: "The door of your life is wide open!"

"Love is like a moving sea between the shores of your souls" - Kahil Gibran

pets can be like our children and sometimes inspire us to do and be our best, maybe even work our way up up to the presidency.

I will always try to return your papers as soon as possible, because you need feedback and I don't want to fall too far behind.

How many can you name of these Golden Greats?

Visit Charleville Castle in Ireland haunted by the ghost of Harriet in her blue and white dress with golden curls and a blue ribbon in her hair.