Archive For June 18, 2020
“You don’t run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.” 1972. When Frank Shorter won his gold medal in the marathon, I was out running. Be a doer, not a watcher. Months earlier, I had become addicted to the sport by accident. Felt like an explorer. Normal adult…
I’m just here to present ideas. And this is far too important not to ask. Just asking the question, somebody’s got to. If it looks like a sick duck and it walks like a sick duck, well, you got to ask. Is Donald sick? One of my very best buddies unfriended me on FaceBook, because…
If a neighbor is killed in a car accident, do you sell your car and stop driving? – Mario Andretti Who can I talk to about this? Guy across the street is a human nut sack. Is it okay to say that? How about istheguyacrossthestreetahumannutsack?? How ’bout that? Make it a question, so I’m just…
“Cuchi, cuchi.” – Charo These great questions and answers are from the days when Hollywood Squares’ game show responses were – allegedly – spontaneous, not scripted, as they are now! Q. True or False, a pea can last as long as 5,000 years. A. George Gobel: Boy, it sure seems that way sometimes. Q. Paul, what is a good…
I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone’s hand. – Benjamin Alire Saenz Exploring the Cutting-Edge History and Evolution of Collage Art By Kelly Richman-Abdou for My Modern Met. July 14, 2017. Throughout the 20th century, creatives across many movements, mediums, and styles began to explore the practice of collage art. The…
“I know it’s annoying to people and that it creates a vacuum when you ‘untitle’ things, but if I have no interesting information to add with a title, then why do it?“ Elspeth Walker wrote, In Gober’s insistence on painstakingly replicating by hand quotidian manufactured objects, he literally reproduces talismans of trauma. A meticulous, empty Seagrams bottle…
1942 – Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday. In 1963 civil rights leader Medgar Evers, 37, was shot and killed outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi, by a member of the Ku Klux Klan. In 1964, South African black freedom fighter Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison for ‘committing sabotage’ against the racist white regime….
“To be good is not enough when you dream of being great.” Here’s what Wikipedia has to say. Greg Meyer (born September 18, 1955) is an American long-distance runner. Meyer’s winning time for the 1983 Boston Marathon race was 2:09.00. He was the last American to win the Boston Marathon until 2014, and the last person born in America to…
Education is the vaccine for violence. – Edward James Olmos Like the American President, I take no responsibility. I am just here to present ideas, as he said. Nothing about the virus has changed. It’s novel, means we don’t know much about it. Highly contagious and deadly. It kills. No vaccine. Targets the old. Turns…
Right now, in Trump’s America, white people need to be better—particularly when it comes to helping the most vulnerable. Damon Young, a self-described professional black person, has some advice on how to do just that. [This article first appeared two and a half years ago and nothing has gotten better. Black Lives Matter.] White People Need…