Wednesday, February 7, 2018

I must go get naked

Excuse me.
I must go get naked
Of pretense, masks and artifice.
Now I’m standing,
Only skin and bones before 
The mirror
Who’s laughing?
Am I more human
now?
What if I like this naked me?
Stripped bare against cold, wet voices?
Then I must trust myself
Never to get dressed again
Ever.

Tuesday, February 6, 2018

My credo of art

My credo of art

--Art is something I must do.

--I make art that requires more than an 8 second look..

--I make art that grows in substance as I grow in substance.

--I make art as a conversation with the viewer about the human condition.

--I make art to have meaning for me and meaning for the viewer, though not always the same meaning.

--The meaning of the work is more important than work itself.

--I consider art to be a gift that unfortunately must often be a commodity.

--I must tend to my own humanity if I want my art to have its own humanity.



Monday, February 5, 2018

Q and A

Q: What is your greatest fear?
A: My greatest fear is that the NRA will have enough money to buy all of the US Congress, who will pass a law that anyone with a gun can shoot anyone they think is committing a crime.
Q: What is your greatest fear”
A: My greatest fear is that we will have a nuclear holocaust, and that Donald and Melania will emerge from a concrete bunker as the only living couple who can propagate the human race.
Q: What is your greatest fear?
A; My greatest fear is that transgender people will join the Army, deplete the budget with sex change operations and then take control of the Army.
Q: What is your greatest fear?
A: My greatest fear is that races and ethnicities will intermarry so much that there will be no more opportunities for racists to enjoy their racism.
Q: What is your greatest fear?
A: My greatest fear is that America will end up being just one big empty spectacle

Sunday, February 4, 2018

Welcome to your human family Part 3

A man converts his vintage Oldsmobile into a chicken
A soldier lays wounded and dying in Afghanistan
A teenager lays wounded and dying in Chicago
A refugee child drowns near a Greek island
The DeVos family builds a fleet of personal jets and helicopters
Bill Gates buys Leonardo’s journals
A mother can’t afford bread for her child
A gay couple marries then later divorces
A man standing on a cliff jumps to his death
A Zika baby cries
A husband regrets his affair but doesn’t end it
A woman spends $150 at a Pure Romance party
A woman makes a couch potato cheese ball for the Super Bowl
A teenage boy is raped by other prisoners
A first date goes horribly wrong
A mother sits holding her baby hours on end
A man quotes Dostoyevsky
A team of men and women invent an AI sex doll
A marketing team plans a campaign to sell junk food
A girl dreams of being a Victoria Secrets model
A teacher hugs every student as they leave her classroom
A boy constructs a suicide vest for his sister to use
A man spits on a photo of Donald Trump
A woman wraps herself in a Confederate flag
A rapper laments street life then goes to his palatial home
An emergency room nurse saves a life

Saturday, February 3, 2018

Some political notes

Some political notes:

1. The Republicans say it is their Constitutional duty to do oversight of the FBI. What about their Constitutional duty to keep the government functioning effectively, to act with integrity and listen to their constituents?

2.  The President thinks that what is happening in government is a “disgrace.” But he doesn’t acknowledge that he is the reason for it.

3. Politicians don’t realize that when they claim underhanded actions of the other party are “just politics,” they are actually demeaning their own profession.


4. The only good thing about the Nunez memo is that it distracts us from Superbowl mania.

#NEVERME

I believe that there are many men like me who have never been guilty of sexual harassment or sexual misconduct. Hence my hashtag: #NEVERME.

So who wants to join me?

Thursday, February 1, 2018

My brand

You can ignore me. That’s okay. But you must pay attention to my brand. My brand is the sparkling, squeaky clean, always-there-for-you me. My brand never farts like I do, or drops ketchup on its tie like I do. My brand glosses over all the ways I’m messy and mess up. All the ways I’m human.