Archive | July 2007
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We are ugly but we have the music
Of course, a tip of the old homburg to Leonard Cohen for one of my favourite lines from one of my favourite songs (And clenching your fist for the ones like us who are oppressed by the figures of beauty, you fixed yourself, you said, “Well never mind, we are ugly but we have the [...]
Lying to be true
I just watched a bit of a dvd called The true meaning of pictures: Shelby Lee Adams’ Appalachia. He photographs people in extreme poverty and though he is an outsider to that experience he is of Appalachian blood himself. As he put it: he constructed the photographs but these were real people with real stories, [...]
Madrid: Day Three: Part One
Saw Picasso’s Guernica. Actually saw quite a bit of Picasso including some from his blue period as well as his go at doing pottery. Now, there is little doubt that if one artist had to be picked as the dominant artist of the 20th century, dear Pablo would be the one. I used to feel [...]
Iberian Porkland or Spain: Land o’ Ham
The time has come,’ the Walrus said, To talk of many things: Of shoes — and ships — and sealing wax – Of cabbages — and kings – And why the sea is boiling hot — And whether pigs have wings. If they did, they’d steer clear of ham loving Spain. This is the place [...]
Picard is back
The last time I posted this I had to remove it, as it was removed from all sources. Its back. Though I would recommend watching the Indian Traffic I replaced it with on my Picard Song post.
Collage
Flying a little low on the inspiration meter so here’s a bit of a grab bag post. This is a cool Lori Earley painting from a cool blog I just ran across. This is a public sculpture in Prague which I did not actually see. Things to write about: old guys still playing music (Neil [...]
Madrid: Day Two (The Prado), Part Three
That day at the Prado we had taken a break and had our first shot at the churros we had heard so much about. Churros and hot chocolate. The hot chocolate there is much closer to pudding than a drink. It was decent but not remarkable and the churros were almost inedible. What stood out [...]
You Write Like a Girl
I was reading Ward 6 (see under my Writing blogroll) and I found a post with the same title as above. It struck me because I had used the same title before when I (and a friend) wrote up a piece intended to provoke a discussion for a ezine attached to the online promotion for [...]
