Movie Review: Eat Pray Love

Posted on December 28, 2011 by Brian Wright

A unique womanly spiritual journey _ 7/10

Liz Gilbert: In the end, I’ve come to believe in something I call “The Physics of the Quest.” A force in nature governed by laws as real as the laws of gravity. The rule of Quest Physics goes something like this: If you’re brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments, and set out on a truth-seeking journey, either externally or internally, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher and if you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you. Continue reading →

Book Review: The Farrah Chronicles

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Brian Wright

Ninety minutes in the life of a very shaky girl
by Christine Mahoney
Review by Brian Wright

For those who feel the recently emerging author-directed alternative publishing technology tends to produce mundane work, The Farrah Chronicles will challenge your presumptions. This small story of a young woman’s journey through stylish neighborhoods of broken dreams and borderline sanity is a sparkling diamond of imagination. Written in first person via flashback, we’re first introduced to Farrah (29) as she’s being retrieved by her parents—and into their court-directed care—from an ‘institution.’ She finds it a little more than ironic that the state is placing her safekeeping ‘in the questionable hands of the very people who endangered it. Indefinitely.’ The next nine months provide the context of her reminiscences, as Farrah chronicles through her ninety-minute psychotherapy sessions (with the highly credentialed and determined Genie) what has brought her to this stage. As Farrah puts it: Continue reading →

Movie Review: Executive Action (1973)

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Brian Wright

Suppressed groundbreaker on JFK killing __ 8/10
Review by Brian Wright

TV Commentator: In the three years after the murders of John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald eighteen material witnesses died, six by gunfire, three by motor accidents, two by suicide, one by a cut throat, one by a karate chop to the neck, three by heart attacks, two from natural causes. An actuary engaged by the London Sunday Times concluded: On November 22, 1963, the odds of all these witnesses being dead by Feb. 1967 are one hundred thousand trillion to one. Continue reading →

Brian’s Column: Here’s Ronnie

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Brian Wright

Ron Paul Takes Hollywood
by Brian Wright

What a thrill it was to be able to point with assuredness to the notice that small-l libertarian presidential candidate Ron Paul would be appearing on the Jay Leno Show 12/16/2011 (which, fittingly, is Boston Tea Party Day). As a Boomer who remembers the NBC predecessor Tonight Show starring the inimitable Johnny Carson, I still hear the booming voice of Johnny’s announcer Ed McMahon opening the show: H-E-E-R-R-R-E-‘S JOHHNNNY! Well, on Friday Night, Johnny became Ronnie, Dr. Ron Paul that is. Continue reading →

Human Interest: My Millionaire Page

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Brian Wright

Millionaire Page of Brian Wright
Say Yes to Success!

Hello, I’m Brian Wright, proprietor of the ‘wholistic libertarian’ commentary and opinion site, the Coffee Coaster (http://www.thecoffeecoaster.com), and founder of the FLOW Fellowship.

The FLOW Fellowship is a diverse social movement advancing a spiritual philosophy that brings inner peace, outer peace, and abundance to those who understand its fundamental principles and diligently perform its cultivation practices. The Joy of Being is accessed by letting go of internal mental compulsion and addiction, while ending the external compulsion of coercive government—to kick our ‘nation-state addiction’ worldwide and live as sovereign individuals in a benevolent, rational, and compassionate voluntary society. Continue reading →