Can't be stopped, only contained...

Garden Wall - George Tooker c. 1990

The painter George Tooker has passed away. A student of Marsh and an heir to Benton, Wood and Hopper. Ash Can meets Regionalism. A wonderful artist.

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Here are a few of my recent internet tussles for your perusal:

Daisy Deadhead. Bloodthirsty Liberal. Or this. See, the liberals hate me and the conservatives hate me.

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This lady has had so many plastic surgeries that she can no longer shut her eyes.

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Some of you, including my wife and Brett, thought that the picture of fog on Gavilan was boring. Kerry thought that it lacked some dynamic element. He used to call shots like this pussey as in pus. Shots that you like and they only have meaning for you and which the rest of the world hates.

I think that it speaks more to the rest of your general lack of breeding and perception, the photograph resembling an old chinese scroll painting.

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The hawk is still sitting on the eggs but I think that the day is fast approaching. Got hot today for the first time all year and is expected to be in the nineties this weekend.

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Several of you have recently asked, one of you incessantly, why I am not making money at this blogging thing? The short answer is, I don't know how. And it is not that important to me at present. It's not like the soda fountain at Schrafts, "You want to write for the New Yorker, kid?" Too many competent writers out there and I don't live in New York. It's fun for its own sake. And don't tell me ads, marginal money, I tried it once. I will sell out, but please lord, give me a decent bid.

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Reading an interesting book on Peter Paul Rubens and his secret 16th Century life as a diplomatic courier as well as court painter. Dovetails with last month's book on the lost Carravagio.

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Check out the three dimensional drawing program Anaglyph by Neave. Very entertaining.