(2 comments) SHARE        Sunday, December 2, 2012
Does Grandpa Remember "Buzz Bombs"? Beautiful dreamer.... waken to be.... moonlight and starlight are waiting for thee.... sounds of the rude world.... heard by the day.... lulled by the starlight.... have all passed away.

(2 comments) SHARE        Sunday, October 14, 2012
An Appreciation of the "Hit List" by Lawrence Block Late last century I became an avid reader of science fiction and crime fiction, two reading pursuits that abandoned me after the Beginning of the End (ie, the year 2000), as it were. Nonetheless, I intermittently try to resume one, then the other, then the one again, etc; and the book "Hit List" by Lawrence Block is crime fiction which is truly a hoot.

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, September 8, 2012
The U.S. Open Strikes Back! I can never remember which came first for me, golf or tennis. They get all jumbled up in my memories of my 1950's summers in my early teens, spent in Cooperstown NY at the CCC (Cooperstown Country Club), when not at Camp Pinnacle near Lyme NH around the same time.

SHARE        Sunday, September 2, 2012
(1) Artnet Magazine Folds; howsoever, (2) Here Are Six Vik Muniz's from Galleries Peddling Pics There. As of now, Artnet Magazine is a collection of reprints. But in July, Vik Muniz was El Artisto Numero Uno at Artnet Online, and if you take the time to peruse the following sample of his artworks at galleries presenting there, I think you won't be disappointed. Vik is a Brazilian, and he was born in 1961.

SHARE        Monday, August 27, 2012
A Review of Eric Ambler's Doctor Frigo You could almost say Eric Ambler started what John Le Carre finished, and I would agree if it weren't for the fact that I've never encountered a dull paragraph in any of the eight or ten Eric Ambler spy novels I've read - from Cause for Alarm (written in 1938) to Doctor Frigo (written in 1974).

SHARE        Monday, August 13, 2012
Artnet's Newest Unregenerate Sexist. His name is Gavin Bond, and he hangs in West Hollywood (I know, I know, of course he hangs - up his artwork photographs -- in West Hollywood).

(4 comments) SHARE        Saturday, June 23, 2012
A Brief Rumination on Horses. In 1948 I was in the second grade and my best friend was Bill Anstiss, who lived in the town of Boerne, Texas (population, approx. 1300), while I lived on a ranch, about nine miles northeast of Boerne. Bill lived with his single mother in poverty, while I lived with my parents and my sister in Texas Hill Country opulence.

SHARE        Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Keep Your Friends Close: Seven Fairly Old Sam Francis Paintings Sam Francis died in 1994; so "Fairly Old" means prior to 1990.

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, June 10, 2012
Keep Your Enemies Closer: Six Fairly Recent Damien Hirsts. Damien Hirst was born in Bristol, England, in 1965, and received his B.A. in Fine Art from Goldsmith College, London, for work completed from 1986 through 1989. Since 1995, he's lived and worked in Devon and London.

SHARE        Sunday, June 10, 2012
The Final Installment of my Review of "The John Carlos Story" May Be Beyond My Capabilities. This book is so extraordinary I doubt my ability to review it satisfactorily, at least prior to the beginning of the 2012 Olympics in London. However, the recent spate on television of the usual Olympics Advertising prompted my to submit this piece to OpEdNews.

(3 comments) SHARE        Monday, May 21, 2012
Ten Public Artworks by Donald Lipski Donald Lipski is an artist whose public art is stunning. To quote a brief biography of him at his home page at Artnet's Monologues: "he has in recent years created many prominent and compelling public sculptures." After viewing the ten works below, I concluded that "compelling" was a considerable understatement.