I mentioned in a recent tagline that I’ve been getting into the works of the Flemish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder. It’s a fitting coincidence I’m lately drawn to the comical and grotesque “The Fight Between Carnival and Lent,” which balances a wild pageant of characters from the lands of the sacred and the […]
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A Longer Short Month
January becomes February this week and it’s a leap year, so we get an extra day out of the month. It seems almost too much that 2020 is going to be just a little bit longer than most years, doesn’t it? Well, here we are. We are compelled by the calendar to go through the […]
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Some Things Last A Long Time
Last week two very different musical geniuses passed away. Ric Ocasek was a hook-writer like no other before or since, and was the mind behind The Cars, as well as a talented producer behind the boards. Daniel Johnston was a lo-fi music collage artist who suffered openly and tremendously from various mental health issues for […]
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Lend A Hand If You Can
It’s been an active week for a news junkie like myself. Johnathan Franzen took a backheel approach to climate change in the pages of the New Yorker and, in doing so, cemented for all time the terminal uselessness of the establishment liberal position on nearly any topic. A brave banjo-wielding man busted the crap out […]
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Oysters and Outlaws
It’s too damn hot by half and I have stubbornly avoided the river this week, instead choosing to sweat it out at home. The reason has mostly to do with a leaky brake line on my old truck, which I hope to have fixed with a friend by press time, because I don’t know how […]