Category Archives: Art

Beauty as a Beast

March 27, 2012 – 1:25 pm

Photo and painting of Lady Caroline Blackwood “A mermaid who dines upon the bones of her winded lovers.” Robert Lowell husband/poet

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Billion Euro House

March 26, 2012 – 12:47 pm

In fall of 1997 I rented a converted schoolhouse in Ballyconeelly from Lord Guinness of the Guinness Beer fortune. The monthly rent for the autumn was 600 Irish pounds or almost $1000. I was splitting the cost with my friend Ty Spaulding, but upon arriving at the desolate dwelling in the coastal bogs I discovered [...]

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Per Capita Tattoo Capitol

March 15, 2012 – 12:25 pm

Pattaya must be the per capita capitol of farangs with tattoos. Shirtless westerners parade the streets to exhibit the beauty of their body art, despite the collateral damage to the colored flesh from the tropical sun. Most tattoos are eagles, dragons, and declarations of never-ending love to go-go girls festooned with vows of fidelity to [...]

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Orgasms of Sneezes

March 6, 2012 – 8:02 pm

Der Speyer by FX Messerschmidt. Franz Xavier Messerschmidt stunned the Baroque Age with his sculptureS of contorted facial expressions. The artist lost favor with the Viennese court and he retreated to Swabian Alps to complete the 64 studies while studying necromancy under the influence of the pagan prophet Hermes Trismegistus. My Art 101 professor at [...]

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Banksy On Advertising

March 1, 2012 – 9:58 am

Banksy the radical graffiti artist wrote this short treatise about the ceaseless assault of advertising on our senses. I have ripped off the labels of my toiletries and wash products to prevent the further contamination of my mind. This morning I washed my hair with bath soap. It did the job. There is no truth [...]

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