Newt Gingrich's evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president

Anyone who knows me knows I love a good rant (just ask me sometime about the normalizaton of millitary uniforms in fashion-- do you think Hitler would have been half as popular with the kids if Hugo Boss hadn't designed the uniforms? ). And I have to say Garrison Kellior has a great one in the middle of his excellent essay for the August 26th In These Times
"We're not in Lake Woebegone Anymore"

Here's the best passage, if your'e in a hurry:

"The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brownshirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons, hacks, fakirs, aggressive dorks, Lamborghini libertarians, people who believe Neil Armstrong’s moonwalk was filmed in Roswell, New Mexico, little honkers out to diminish the rest of us, Newt’s evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president, a dull and rigid man suspicious of the free flow of information and of secular institutions, whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body parts trying to walk. Republicans: The No.1 reason the rest of the world thinks we’re deaf, dumb and dangerous."

excellent.

new paintings

Howdy my ever faithful reader, I have a few new paintings at New Work
Here's a sample:

This one is tentatively called ok1. I don't know why.

The Squirrel scott found.

So, we are the proud parents of a squirrel. Right now the plan is to raise him until he's old enough to take care of himself. But then agan, Maybe Not.

This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow: August 08, 2004 - August 14, 2004 Archives

This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow: August 08, 2004 - August 14, 2004 Archives: "As long as we're re-examining the 1960s, looking for signs of character, trying to decide if a man who volunteered for combat and was decorated five times was more or less courageous than a guy who didn't even show up for his own medical exam... here's George W. Bush during his college days, hitting a fellow sportsman in the face."

I am becoming incapable of tolerating let alone understanding anyone who can look me in the eye and say " I'm voting for George Bush". I immediately intensely loathe that person, knowing they admire this horrid lying bully. I am reminded of the cretinous creatures masquerading as human beings I encountered in Iowa Park Texas, when I lived there. Calling them cretins insults cretins. They are proof of evil in this world, and I hope all those Christians out there are right, just so they all can fry in hell for eternity.

Henri Cartier-Bresson Dies at 96

Henri Cartier-Bresson was the father of photojournalism. I always say photography is cheating, but this guy was pretty good.

Top Ten

Ok, so today on Carolyn's blog Dangerous Chunky she links to ArtJournal asking the impossible question: "Who is your Top Ten, and with one word, Why?" So in no particular order:

• Kerry james marshal -- honesty


• Diebenkorn -- space


• Cranach the Elder -- contranst


• Phillip Corbet -- Shameless self-promotion


• Louise Bourgeois -- Strength


• chuck close -- paint


• Odd Nerdrum -- odd


• Balthus -- f'ed up


• Fioretino Rosso (and all the other mannerists) -- fabulous wierdness


• Leonardo da Vinci -- duh