Culture For The Non-Cultured

Shel Silverstein contributed to Playboy starting in 1956, wrote awesome children’s books, such as Where the Sidewalk Ends, and a song for Johnny Cash (the video of the song is at the end of this post).
For the kiddies, Shel wrote inspirational, heady stuff like this:
Listen to the MUSTN’TS child,
Listen to the DON’TS
Listen to the SHOULDN’TS
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Click in the box below for a video I made in about 10 minutes, with the help of my new favorite site called Animoto.com and members of Culture for the Non-Cultured Meetup who took pictures of some of the cultural events we have been on in New York City over the past 2 years.
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(OK, so I read about this back in September of last year – my how time flies — but I loved it so much, I have to tell you guys about it now.)
In the midst of the galleries of Chelsea, on West 24th Street between 10th and 11th Avenue, an artist named Scot Kaplan built the [...]

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They say truly beautiful women can look beautiful even if they are wearing a garbage bag.
Well, James Earl Jones’s voice and presence is the oral and theatrical equivalent. He is fantastic even when saying the alphabet really … really … slowly, as he does in this classic tape from Sesame Street.  
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