HE ARTS

“I got my heart on my sleeve with a knife in my back, what’s with that? Aye” — Ghostwriter977 Ideas for my postings typically begin as words, as stream of conscious ramblings, as… Continue reading →

TRONIE ALONIE

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not nonsense but cleverness. She says and does horrid things, and you… Continue reading →

MUSIC TO MY EYES

“Art is how we decorate space; Music is how we decorate time.”― Jean Michel Basquiat DON’T READ THE DRAWING WRONG. I like jazz, the moody, not too loud, not too fast stuff anyway.… Continue reading →

QUARTER MILE QUARTERLY P&L

“They’re seeking ways now to drag us all underbut there’d be no such wars, were there nothing to plunder.” — Epigraph for Pieter Bruegel the elder’s 1567 print “The fight of the money-bags… Continue reading →

EXTRAORDINARY AND PECULIAR

Art itself has become an extraordinary thing – the activity of peculiar people – people who become more and more peculiar as their activity becomes more and more extraordinary.” —Eric Gill, an extraordinary… Continue reading →

FOOL THE I

“Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in its place?”  — Virginia Woolf In a room of one’s own—be careful what… Continue reading →

AN AGORAPHOBIC FLANEUR

THE ORIGINAL IDEA was to be a good-natured well-meant pasquinade of the 1884 Winslow Homer painting “The Life Line.” It’s of a ship-to-shore or ship-to-ship rope and bucket rescue. The rescued is unconscious… Continue reading →

SOCIAL DISTANCING

Nothing much to say here that the drawing doesn’t. It shows three corners of my home base. There are others, but these are the most interesting. The text, in case the image is… Continue reading →

LANDFILL OF THE VANITIES

“Vanity well fed is benevolent. Vanity hungry is spiteful.” — Mason Cooley THE TITLE REFERS to, not the Tom Wolfe novel The Bonfire of the Vanities, but to the 1497 event where when… Continue reading →

TEXT ME WHEN THE TRIAL STARTS

OK, I made a drawing that I thought I’d like to post, I made it the same day I first thought up the idea in my journal. It is a quickie photoshop, but… Continue reading →