In the “Hustle and Flow” post on her Blast O’ Joy blog, Suzanne Falter-Barns praises this “incredible indie film [DVD].. about a drug dealing pimp in the backwaters of Memphis who lives his dream of becoming a successful rapper. I found a lot of inspiration here for dream pursuit - and you will, too. You’ve [...]

Beethoven reportedly drank wine about as often as he wrote music, and was an alcoholic or at least a problem-drinker.
A number of people with exceptional abilities have used drugs and alcohol as self-medication to ease the pain of that sensitivity, or as a way to enhance thinking and creativity. Sometimes they risk addiction.
Among the many [...]

Gordon Parks [1912-2006] was often referred to as a renaissance man, as noted in an obituary by Dennis McLellan [Los Angeles Times March 8, 2006], and lived up to the label: “In addition to his photography, film work and poetry, he composed a symphony, sonatas, concertos, film scores, and wrote novels, instructional photography manuals, essays [...]