2013
NOVEMBER 29: ABBIE HOFFMAN – Becoming the Face of Change
NOVEMBER 30: DAVID MAMET – The Meaning in the Things We Don’t Say
DECEMBER 1: RICHARD PRYOR – Hiding In Plain Sight
DECEMBER 2: FRANK TASHLIN – “Nasty Quacks” and a Life Out-Of-Step
DECEMBER 3: ELVIS PRESLEY’S ’68 COMEBACK SPECIAL – Finding Your Voice Again
DECEMBER 4: JON STONE – Love and Magic
DECEMBER 5: LENNY BRUCE – The Terrifying Power of Words
DECEMBER 6: JAMES THURBER – The Soul of Wit
DECEMBER 7: BERKELEY BREATHED and BLOOM COUNTY – Pastiche, part I
DECEMBER 8: JIM MORRISON – Pastiche, part II
DECEMBER 9: JOHN CASSAVETES – Posing The Problem Of Truth
DECEMBER 10: GREGG ALLMAN and OTIS REDDING – The Empty Place Where All Music Starts
DECEMBER 11: SAM KINISON – Listening From A Step Ahead
DECEMBER 12: FRANK SINATRA – The Most Original Path
DECEMBER 13: LESTER BANGS – Building the Temple in the Wake of Rock & Roll
DECEMBER 15: “PEACE PIECE” – Loneliness versus Being Alone
DECEMBER 17: EMMET OTTER’S JUG BAND CHRISTMAS – Creating a Universe Like Our Own
DECEMBER 18: CHRIS FARLEY – Signing On To Be The Clown
DECEMBER 19: RAGING BULL – The Alluring Myth of Invulnerability
DECEMBER 20: PAUL WINCHELL – The Expert Generalist
DECEMBER 21: WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN – The Only Way Out Is Through
DECEMBER 22: RICHARD HUGO – Little Moments and The Triggering Town
DECEMBER 23: CHET BAKER – The Curse of Natural Talent
DECEMBER 24: MR. MAGOO’S CHRISTMAS CAROL – A Very Special Swan Song
DECEMBER 25: A CHRISTMAS CAROL – My Own Epiphany
DECEMBER 27: “STAGGER LEE” – The Power of Unheard Narratives
DECEMBER 29: WOODY HAYES – The Legacy of Continuous Improvement
DECEMBER 31: CALVIN & HOBBES – Exploring and Imagination
2014
JANUARY 1: HANK WILLIAMS – The Benevolence of Resting Places
JANUARY 2: HOMESTAR RUNNER – Democratizing the Web, Ruining Excuses
JANUARY 3: STEVE JOBS – Beginning with the End in Mind
JANUARY 4: THELMA SCHOONMAKER – The Empathy of Holding the Gaze
JANUARY 6: BOB NEWHART – Providing The Gaps For Us To Fill
JANUARY 8: ELVIS PRESLEY – The First Spark in this Journey
JANUARY 10: FRAGGLE ROCK – “Let’s Make A Show That Will Change The World”
JANUARY 11: CARL REINER & MEL BROOKS – An Eagerness to Sacrifice
JANUARY 12: CHARLES NELSON REILLY – Learning the Rules, Only to Break Them
JANUARY 13: JOHNNY CASH AT FOLSOM PRISON – Attacking Salvation at the Root
JANUARY 14: THE SEX PISTOLS – The Danger of Razing the House Without New Blueprints
JANUARY 16: GARTH ENNIS – The Power of Perspective
JANUARY 17: MUHAMMAD ALI – Owning Your Greatness
JANUARY 24: JOHN BELUSHI – Chug-A-Lugging from the Cup of Life
JANUARY 25: ETTA JAMES – Too Personal to be Defined
JANUARY 28: JACKSON POLLOCK – The Edges of What We Can Stand
JANUARY 30: PETE GALLANIS – The First To Believe
JANUARY 31: MARK EITZEL – The Truth Hurts
FEBRUARY 1: THE CROW – We Are What We Focus On
FEBRUARY 3: PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN – The Danger of Being Unresolved
FEBRUARY 10: SPIKE LEE’S SCHOOL DAZE – Beating Back the Damage of Omission
FEBRUARY 12: CHARLES SCHULZ – A Love Bigger than Life
MARCH 4: WARD KIMBALL – Breathing Life into The Line
MARCH 5: PIER PAOLO PASOLINI – The Danger of Being Too Broad
MARCH 6: THE BIG LEBOWSKI – The Laughter of Togetherness
MARCH 7: TOWNES VAN ZANDT – Waitin’ Around To Die
MAY 26: DOROTHEA LANGE – Learning to See
JUNE 2: DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN – The Salvation Inside
AUGUST 11: ROBIN WILLIAMS – Ending the Never-Ending Battle
AUGUST 31: FRED ROGERS – The Purest of Honesty
SEPTEMBER 20: THE INDIAN RUNNER – The Intimidating Legacy of Fatherhood
SEPTEMBER 29: JOHNNY BENCH – Go Until You Can’t Go No More
OCTOBER 7: THE GIVING TREE – The Elusive Territory between Codependence and Selfishness
OCTOBER 23: JOHNNIE’S LOUNGE – A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
OCTOBER 24: RESERVOIR DOGS – An Open Letter to Everyone who stormed out of the Lincoln Theater in Chicago that night in December, 1992
OCTOBER 29: BILL MAULDIN – A Fabric of Lies More Honest Than the Truth
NOVEMBER 10: SESAME STREET – A Lifetime of Gratitude
2015
JANUARY 5: MICHAEL O’DONOGHUE – A Violent, Outrageous Absolution
JANUARY 7: JOHN BERRYMAN – The Decision to Wave Goodbye
JANUARY 9: WALTER HILL – An Escape to the Ends of the Spectrum
JANUARY 15: MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. – The History that Blocks the Dream
JANUARY 18: A.A. MILNE – Allowing Our Stories to Survive Adulthood
JANUARY 20: THE MUPPETS ON SNL – The World Don’t Wanna Change
JANUARY 21: FRECKLES BROWN – Doing the Impossible, Because You Can
JANUARY 22: SAM COOKE – A Life of Barely-Contained Antagonism
JANUARY 23: THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME – A Tiger That Can’t Be Tamed
JANUARY 27: FRANK MILLER – When Battling Monsters
JANUARY 29: FREDDIE PRINZE – Fascinating
FEBRUARY 5: WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS – Art vs. Life
FEBRUARY 6: CHRISTOPHER GUEST – Talk Until You’re Yourself
FEBRUARY 9: THE WARRIORS – The Style of Masculinity
FEBRUARY 11: BURT REYNOLDS – When Gratitude Looks Like Hubris
FEBRUARY 13: HENRY ROLLINS – Everyday Strength
FEBRUARY 15: KURT VONNEGUT, JR. – Everything was Beautiful, and Nothing Hurt
FEBRUARY 16: JIM HENSON’S TIME PIECE – Time Is Meaning
FEBRUARY 19: thirtysomething – You’re Never Truly Prepared
FEBRUARY 20: HUNTER S. THOMPSON – Too Exhausted To Live, Too Curious To Die
MARCH 27: JOE COCKER’S MAD DOGS & ENGLISHMEN – Connections Like Fireworks
MARCH 28: DON KNOTTS – A Legacy of Vulnerability
MARCH 30: BATMAN – Atonement without Resolution
APRIL 2: MARVIN GAYE – The High Watermark of Soul
JUNE 22: KRIS KRISTOFFERSON – A Quiver Full of Arrows
JUNE 23: WILLIE NELSON’S RED-HEADED STRANGER – Epic Country Stories
JUNE 24: ROY O. DISNEY – Behind Every Dreamer, A Realist
AUGUST 12: ANDRE DUBUS – We Don’t Have to Live Great Lives
SEPTEMBER 3: MAURICE TILLET – When Giants Get Worn Down
SEPTEMBER 5: LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III’s “MOTEL BLUES” – Sarcasm and Salvation
2016
FEBRUARY 2: SID VICIOUS – A Wild but Necessary Rejection
FEBRUARY 7: CHRIS ROCK – A Lesson in History
FEBRUARY 14: WAYLON JENNINGS – The Unique Direction Only You Know
FEBRUARY 17: HUEY P. NEWTON – Power to the People
FEBRUARY 18: HARRY CARAY – The Metric that Matters
FEBRUARY 21: MALCOLM X / EL-HAJJ MALIK EL-SHABAZZ – A Rare and Difficult Change
FEBRUARY 22: CHUCK JONES – Creative Work is Never Competitive
FEBRUARY 23: JIM HENSON’S THE CUBE – The Truth Behind the Mask
APRIL 25: PRINCE – FEARLESS
JUNE 18: THE WILD BUNCH – The Inexorable Walk Towards Whatever
2018
FEBRUARY 24: HAROLD RAMIS – A Blessed Journey to Selflessness
2021
JANUARY 19: JANIS JOPLIN – Never Fit In
JANUARY 26: BESSIE COLEMAN – A Helpless Never Learned
FEBRUARY 4: CLIFFORD, THE BIG RED DOG – Don’t Let the Bias Grind You Down
FEBRUARY 8: NEAL CASSADY – A Muse Most Sacrificial
FEBRUARY 25: MARK ROTHKO – The Time Art Requires
FEBRUARY 26: JACKIE GLEASON – Two Distinct Voices
FEBRUARY 28: CHARLES DURNING – Hard Work and Salvation
MARCH 2: LOU REED – Art and Consequences
MARCH 3: GEORGE MILLER – The Audience Informs the Artist
MARCH 9: ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE – How We Respond to Outrage
MARCH 12: JACK KEROUAC – The Gratitude of Experience
MARCH 13: THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND – The Vulnerability of Opposites