Sunday, December 29, 2019

Bobby D.




A portrait of the artist as a young man.

Monday, December 23, 2019

Thursday, December 19, 2019

Sunday, November 10, 2019

Thursday, October 24, 2019

Saturday, October 19, 2019

Saturday, September 28, 2019

Thursday, August 15, 2019

Tuesday, August 6, 2019

The Beatles - Let It Be (Music Video in 1970)




N.B. the verse towards the end that references "Brother Malcolm."



Thursday, August 1, 2019

Sunday, May 12, 2019

"Reality" TV




O Fame, Fame, how many lives of worthless men you have exalted!

~ Euripides, Andromache, 319f.


Saturday, April 27, 2019

The Imperial Highway




The United States is heading down the Imperial Highway: brutal in its hubris and heedlessness, with an inveterate narcissist at its helm, emblematic of an entire culture.

And so it goes.

Saturday, April 6, 2019

It's Not Right...




It is not right, my fellow countrymen, you who know very well all the crimes committed in our name, it's not at all right that you do not breathe a word about them to anyone, not even to your own soul, for fear of having to stand in judgment of yourself. I am willing to believe that at the beginning you did not realize what was happening; later, you doubted whether such things could be true; but now you know, and still you hold your tongues.

~ From Jean-Paul Sartre's "Preface" to Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth.


Thursday, March 28, 2019

Saturday, March 23, 2019

Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Monday, March 4, 2019

1965-1975


While it is true that neo-fascism has become fashionable in the USA, I doubt that the fascists and their ilk will have the final say because, at the end of the day, they’re bad for business, and Mammon is the American god.

But they will do as much damage as they can until they are thrown out and then it will be back to rampant consumer capitalism and the military-industrial-complex’s imperial designs on the rest of the world—a status quo ante that the so-called “liberals” will think is a vast improvement by comparison.

The American people are caught in a political binary driven by the “two-party system” that is on automatic pilot—and no one questions it. No one questions the system itself anymore. The system is sacred.

The period from 1965-1975 was the exception that proves the rule. Here are a few mementos from that charmed decade:






Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Saturday, February 9, 2019

Sunday, January 20, 2019

The New England Patriots



"Big Jim" Nance, originally from Indiana, Pennsylvania.

Team history.


Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Monday, January 14, 2019

Friday, January 4, 2019