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A small painting
I've started painting again! This one is small only 23 X 31 cm.
It's based on the freedom tunnel, but I changed the graffiti a bit.
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who held on when everyone else was letting go.
Artists need cities because artists need audiences. Even if they don't live in cities artists depend on urban networks to spread and popularize their ideas. In the 1970s American cites were in decline, even New York, the cultural capitial of the nation, was hemorrhaging people, landlords burned their buildings, and the city seemed to be going to ( Read more... ) -
17. Ephemeral but legendary histories
←- more to come ...History is, of course, far more than books describe. Histories are carried by people in many ways, and they change over time. Our understanding of the past is continuously revised by our experience of the present. Hence, history is under constant revision and rarely in agreement with itself. When I say history, I do not mean " ( Read more... ) -
appendix removal update
The pain meds make it impossible for me to do any math so I've stopped taking them in the morning so I can get a little done. Once I take them all I can do is write, surf the web and cook, but even the coking is a bit dangerous. I'm hoping that I'll wake up tomorrow and not feel any pain and just be done with it. I want to go running. I almost feel ( Read more... ) -
Civilization
A lot of you agreed with some of the ideas in my last post. I don't think that will be the case with this one.Civilization describes the way that humans live, when they have a surplus of food, and therefore labor. Civilization requires the development of cities, arts, cultural institutions, recreational and academic institutions under conditions of ( Read more... ) -
No shame
I was looking at a magazine and I saw this advertisement for a washing machine. Here is the first half of it:
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I'M'ALIIIIIIIVE!
I had to have my appendix removed. (But,I still have my bibliography! Ha! ha! Get it? ... oh, never mind...) At any rate, I'm just returning from a 2-day stay in the hospital. I'm doing well, and I should be back to normal in a week or so. But, if I'm slow to respond, or if I missed something in the past few days, blame it on my illness or the pain ( Read more... )
