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“I am interested in people and everything that pertains to them.” Apparently, Janet Sobel didn’t pose for many photographs. Others had no such problem. See the artist many in America blame for modern art, like those drip paintings look like a dyslexic chimp on crack went completely bananas. Reviews of Pollock’s show were mixed. Emily Genauer…
Who would run our motels, drive the cab or invent the next global-changing technology? – Barker Ajax As millions of people flee bombing in Ukraine, most media and political comment has been rightly sympathetic. But refugees from other parts of the world, like those escaping war in Syria or violence in Central America, are often…
It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don’t put psychotics in high places and we’ve got the problem solved. – Tom Wolfe Under my high school yearbook photo of a person I no longer recognize,…
For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit. – Noam Chomsky From Charlie Sykes at The Bulwark This is what a war crime looks like, but by now we are familiar with them, because Putin is committing them daily on an industrial scale. Yesterday, President Biden merely stated the obvious when he called Putin a…
And who by fire, who by water Who in the sunshine, who in the night time Who by high ordeal, who by common trial Who in your merry month of May Who by very slow decay and who shall I say is calling? – Leonard Cohen A meditation on peace & pyrotechnics. We don’t know…
“No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as any manner of thy friends or of thine own were; any…
Millions upon millions of years ago, when the continents were already formed and the principal features of the earth had been decided, there existed, then as now, one aspect of the world that dwarfed all others. It was a mighty ocean, resting uneasily to the east of the largest continent, a restless ever-changing, gigantic body…
During a 1959 Kerouac appearance on Steve Allen’s variety show, the host asked him how he’d define the word: “Beat”. “Sympathetic,” replied Kerouac. Jack Kerouac, considered his “true-life” novels as comprising “one vast book like Proust’s except that my remembrances are written on the run instead of afterwards in a sick bed,” turns 100 years old…
How many women watch tvAnd so are scarred by what they seeThe silent victims of the wars of menThe wives, the mothers, who once again Must wait and weep, then one day mournTheir husbands, for the child they’d bornTo die in some forgotten field.What weapons can these warriors wield? – Irene C S ClarkHogg https://www.internationalwomensday.com/
“There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun” – Pablo Picasso Picasso said, why should I blame anybody but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about? Picasso asks a good question. Offers a…