December 2011
1 post
The David Zachary Turchin Fund for Hedonistic...
Please give generously.
August 2011
1 post
June 2011
4 posts
“My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in...”
– Odilon Redon
April 2011
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February 2011
1 post
“…jazz as a future music of unfolding investigation rather than as merely a...”
– AllMusic.com review of Tomasz Stanko’s “Suspended Night”. Wynton Marsalis and other conservative fundamentalists are only doing their audience and their art a disservice.
January 2011
2 posts
October 2010
2 posts
“(6) Give strong drink to him who is perishing,
and wine to those in bitter...”
– God, Proverbs 31:6-7.
Thanks to Leah for a great article on alcohol consumption among ancient Israelites.
September 2010
5 posts
“…I think, I think the joke is on, I don’t know who the joke’s...”
– Simon Munnery, Banksy spokesman - Exit Through the Gift Shop
August 2010
7 posts
richers
“Perhaps no word in our language has been debated so hotly for so long. The Americans have been in a complete tizzy over it for years. It appears on the obscene-word list of most American newspapers, only written as “n****r”. David Howard, a Washington DC city official, resigned in 1999 after using the word “niggardly” (in its fiscal sense) in front of African-Americans who were offended –...
WatchBest TV coverage of the “Ground Zero Mosque” debate
Watch“If you still think that the goal of 20th century art is to create something beautiful you might as well leave now. It’s one of the greatest misconceptions of people who are not educated in art. To appreciate 20th century art you must abandon the idea of beauty. Pioneering art is a new way of looking at the world, and those works of art can be very interesting, they can sometimes be...
Watch
America in Color →
Here’s a nice review
July 2010
2 posts
“Pleasure is an important form of knowledge.”
– Roberta Smith, New York Times Senior Art Critic
June 2010
2 posts
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch”
– James Bovard
really!? →
May 2010
2 posts
“Is One & Other bad art, then? Well, there’s another way of seeing it....”
– Jonathan Jones, Guardian Art Critic, on Antony Gormley’s Fourth Plinth installation “One & Other”
April 2010
4 posts
“Images are icebergs. Words are the sea.”
– Jonathan Jones, The Guardian Art Critic and member of the Turner Prize jury.
things that annoy me
when people casually confuse any hint of cynicism regarding religious institutions as “atheism”. counterproductive.
anagrams
crunch hazard avidity
March 2010
2 posts
WatchI’ve always been interested in efficiency and traffic flow and happen to drive a great deal for my job. I spend a lot of time thinking about the dynamics of driving and drivers. At nobodies fault but my own I frequently find myself extremely frustrated with what I see as an extreme lack of consideration on the road. The idea presented in this video echoes a lot of what I’ve thought...
February 2010
5 posts
“My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing...”
– Lee Atwater (February 27, 1951 – March 29, 1991), Political Consultant/Strategist
How Marijuana Ruined My Life
Sometimes I wonder what I might have amounted to if I hadn’t become a pothead thirty years ago, when I was in graduate school, and pretty much remained one ever since. If not for marijuana, by now I’d probably be securely tenured in some English department and my mother would be able to brag to her friends about her son the doctor of philosophy. I’d be fluent in Academese, a...
January 2010
1 post
November 2009
1 post
“Do the next right thing.”
– Chad Larson
October 2009
1 post
September 2009
8 posts
“Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the...”
– Abraham Joshua Heschel
“The liberal says, “People are stupid and greedy. We need to set up...”