The Day The Music Died |
Although this has attained a tad of media attention, it seems to have been overlooked as a culturally significant day. Maybe it will be picked up as a bigger story tomorrow.Fifty years ago on this da...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:11:00 GMT |
Happy Birthday, Jackson Pollock |
It would be easy to say, "If Pollock didn't die in that drunken auto crash in 1956, he'd be 97 years old today."Of course, being the art cowboy he was, Pollock's liver and brain would have been marina...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:52:00 GMT |
The Eleventh Hour |
At the beginning of September, I took a close look at the electoral map, considered quite a few polls and figured that Obama could expect to win about 52% of the popular vote and garner around 300 ele...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:54:00 GMT |
A Sorry Month For The Political Right |
Uncle Ted Stevens, corrupt influence huckster he is, finally got caught with his hand in the cookie jar. The stalwart GOP posterboy for the need for term limits allegedly received $250,000 in re...
Posted by on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:59:00 GMT |
A Journey To Newark |
As much as I've tried to get away from the city of my birth for nearly two decades, that persistent corner of the universe keeps calling me back, continually stalking me on the other side of the Hudso...
Posted by on Fri, 30 May 2008 10:50:00 GMT |
Robert Rauschenberg 1925-2008 R.I.P. |
I realize he was 82 years old, had lived a long and productive life, and his time had come, but I was saddened to read of Robert Rauschenberg's death on Monday.
Another titan of high modernism enters ...
Posted by on Fri, 16 May 2008 13:53:00 GMT |
A Story With No Shelf Life |
It's been less than two months since New York Governor Eliot Spitzer resigned in disgrace, yet that tawdry little caught-with-your-pants-down scandal seems like it happened years ago, owing to th...
Posted by on Tue, 13 May 2008 11:20:00 GMT |
Someone Light A Match |
Today, I read with great amusement The New York Times obituary for conservative nimrod and ideological hack, William F. Buckley, Jr., who graciously dropped dead yesterday. Finally...
Confr...
Posted by on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:52:00 GMT |
