364 Days

"Once again they gave the worst job to a black man..."

One year tomorrow since the election, and the critiques are rolling in from all corners of the media. While Obama has managed some passing grades with expectations like his, there should have never have been a recession, right? Seeing as he has not actually been in office for one year, waiting until January for another round of report cards seems fair. And remember six years ago this time, the US had not 'occupied' Iraq for one year yet, and the only war Obama has started is on Fox News.

A Sculpture Says a Thousand Words

"I have often said that I have nothing to say as an artist. Having something to say implies that one is struggling with meaning. The role of the artist is in fact that we don't know what to say, and it is that not knowing that leads to the work." -Anish Kapoor

Slug

Svayambh

Tall Tree and the Eye

Ever since I saw Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate reflecting all of down town Chicago, I have wanted to see an exhibition of his work and the Royal Academy of Arts finally provided me with the opportunity. Kapoor's sculptures play on instillation and are like magnets interacting with their viewers; from small children to my date, it was easy to find visitors to the gallery guiltily looking around before quickly reaching out to touch the art. His pieces are a wonderful balance of organic forms and synthetic materials, which like a new species of plant feel oddly natural and totally foreign. Kapoor is one conemporaty artist whose work I will believe will be survive into future generations.

Shooting into the Corner

Every 20 minutes a canon would be loaded with red wax and shot into another room of the gallery. I pity the intern who has to clean the thirty tons of wax, which will be splattered all over the walls of the Royal Academy for the duration of the exhibition.

Everyone's a Winner

"The nobel prize for lack of chemistry went to John McCain and Sarah Palin"
- David Letterman

Americana: Must Read

"So the birthers, the anti-tax tea-partiers, the town hall hecklers -- these are "either" the genuine grass roots or evil conspirators staging scenes for YouTube? The quiver on the lips of the man pushing the wheelchair, the crazed risk of carrying a pistol around a president -- too heartfelt to be an act. The lockstep strangeness of the mad lies on the protesters' signs -- too uniform to be spontaneous. They are both. If you don't understand that any moment of genuine political change always produces both, you can't understand America, where the crazy tree blooms in every moment of liberal ascendancy, and where elites exploit the crazy for their own narrow interests." -Rick Perlstein, taken from:

In America, Crazy Is a Preexisting Condition

Birthers, Town Hall Hecklers and the

Return of Right-Wing Rage

Americana: Confusing Truth

"Over the past week, congressmen have been holding town hall meetings across the country. They’ve been disrupted by angry protesters who are against Obama’s new healthcare plan. And things could have gotten violent, but nobody could afford to get hurt. So, it was very peaceful protesting." -Jimmy Fallon

Hell Hath No Fury

So Long Sarah

I am sorry, but aren't you quitting?

"Life is too short to compromise time and resources... It may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, pod along and appease those who demand: 'Sit down and shut up,' but that's the worthless, easy path; that's a quitter's way out. "

-Sarah Palin

Full text from resignation speech HERE.

Here's to Reaching Across the Bar

"We need a bottoms up party"- Speaker at an RNC meeting

SOURCE: http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/01/a_new_day.php

My Father's Wisdom

"The trouble with being tall is that you have to deal with short people."

A Vegan's Wisdom

"Bacon is not meat, its candy."

An Alcoholic's Wisdom

'Fake it till you make it.'

'[Chin up] One day at a time.'

'Let go and let God.'

Beat Wisdom

"My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them." -Jack Kerouac

Cuillin Hills, Isle of Skye

Kundera Wisdom

"And yet no one dares to interpret the last two centuries as the history of the invasion of man's cities by the blackbird. All of us are prisoners of a rigid conception of what is important and what is not, and so we fasten our anxious gaze on the important, while from a hiding place behind our backs the unimportant wages its guerrilla war,which will end in surreptitiously changing the world and pouncing on us by surprise."-The Book of Laughter and Forgetting