Archive For February 28, 2021
I saw into the future a few times in my life and it was always scary. My scalp is beginning to display itself. Like leaves in a steady breeze in early autumn one by one, my hair drops off flutters slowly till the branch is bare. My belly grows between my feet and my face,…
“No. I don’t believe in hope. I believe in action. “If I’m an apostle of anything: There are always going to be complications, “but to a large degree, everything is in your hands.” So, I was watching an HBO documentary “Black Art: In The Absence Of Light.” (https://blackartonhbo.com/) And this one particular artist – quietly…
You can’t just ask strangers to drive you up and down the country. This is the twenty first century. Strangers are more dangerous than ever; we’ve never been more dangerous. – Ali Smith I saw her from a distance and she cast a narrow shadow. Pulled over right in front of her and rolled down the…
Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man – there’s your diamond in the rough. – Larry David So, a buddy sees a photo of my pandemic hairdo and sends me a poem, a song really. Back in the day we both had hair and I still do….
Americans in general have a lot of compassion, we just don’t always have the same view of how that compassion is implemented. – Adam Kinzinger I don’t agree with the Congressman about much of anything. Except we both know a treasonous insurrection when we see one. Slow-moving or not. Around the corner from where the…
The fact is, artists have always been propagandists. I have no use for artists who try to divorce themselves from the struggle. I obviously already celebrated Charles White in Art Class #14. I am forgetful and disorganized and Mr. White is certainly deserving of multiple celebrations. Party on. – JDW Charles White’s commitment to creating…
To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. – Allen Ginsberg First thought, my second favorite holiday. The highs are so high and the lows can be so low. Some years in February you stick your neck out and see six more days/weeks/months/years alone, some years you don’t. Next, for a guy born…
I’ve always assumed the old men were just there, fixed, like lamps, but in love with their moths. – Tom Cardamone As indicated by the caption, that’s an old photo. That’s a look that got me profiled in New Hampshire, walking in a ritzy neighborhood. ‘A fitness buff and a real estate voyeur, he looked like…
“If you don’t think you are good enough to win, why bother showing up?” Back in the day, living in the Pacific Northwest, racing in the same events, watching from the stands, you get a certain sense of an athlete. Later, if you are lucky, you get to meet some. One or six will leave…
and I am waitingfor the lost music to sound againin the Lost Continentin a new rebirth of wonder – Lawrence Ferlinghetti Cut it open right down the middle, skull to ass turns out QAnon is powered by three overlapping elements: sex trafficking panic, apocalyptic far-right militarism, tech monopoly. Three. None of these exclusively twenty-first–century phenomena….