Monthly Archives: December 2011

Oh Yoko

Mona Lisa into La Belle

Teenage boys in the early 70s were not supposed to like Joni Mitchell, but once I loved to France in 1982, I loved the line from FREE MAN IN PARIS. “I was a free man in Paris.” My freedom remained unfettered throughout the next two decades and while living in Thailand, I changed the lyrics […]

The Touch Of Art

Famed ad exec and art collector Charles Saatchi lambasted the present hideousness of the art market on the UK Guardian’s commentary pages on the art market. “Art critics mainly see the shows they are assigned to cover by their editors, and have limited interest in looking at much else. Art dealers very rarely see the […]

ARCHIMID’S PAD – Truth

I am an old hippie.

The Glitter Of Gold

In the summer of 1993 Tall Meg and I drove from LA to New York in her 1966 Studebaker Lark. Tall Meg was in love with a man in New York and I was returning to no one. She was in a hurry, but had never made the cross-country trip, so we detoured from the […]