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Who owns an atrocity?
The brutal murder of 14 year-old Emmett Till in 1955 was both a singular atrocity and a bellwether for change. It didn’t spark the civil rights movement—countless other indignities not to mention the sweep of history did that. But it … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, culture, Dana Schutz, Emmett Till, What is art?, Whitney Museum
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The word, spoken
And then there are those days when you just need to turn on the camera and spew verse…
After Standing Rock
In the aftermath of a route, when we see how our own stratagems were steamrolled and how firmly the opposition holds the field, it’s hard to call the things we’ve undergone anything other than abject defeats. It feels like self-delusion … Continue reading
“My Valentine” is a play for laughs
Theater is an all too rare treat for me (and for this I have no one to blame but myself, knowing as I do that both professional and amateur performances abound in my region). Last night I had the pleasure … Continue reading
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Tagged Mark Smith, My Valentine, R&A Productions, Raymelle Adams, theater
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Game day respite
It’s a good day to decompress, disengage, and be entertained. Ugliness and struggle will still be there tomorrow, never fear. So leave it until tomorrow—today we play ball.
The sonneteer
~ ~ No clear idea why, but it seems I’m sonnetering these days. Works for me if it works for you: ~ ~ ~
January 20th: Art strikes back
#J20 isn’t just a trending hashtag, it’s a watershed. It refers to the date, January 20th, and if ever there was a calendar page with the potential to be a watershed, this is it. This is the day that the … Continue reading
Letting in the elements in
.This is the time of year that most of us are trying to keep the elements out. Safe and warm cocoons are just a single door-seal removed from the bluster and bullshit raging out there, and all around. But I’m … Continue reading
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Tagged aesthetics, Art, elements, http://www.jenniferlworden.com/, Jennifer L. Worden, winter
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RIP Debbie Reynolds (April 1, 1932 – Dec. 28, 2016)
It’s unfathomable. 2016 sucks.
RIP Carrie Fisher (Oct. 21, 1956 – Dec. 27, 2016)
No, dammit. This has to stop.
RIP George Michael (June 25, 1963 – Dec. 25, 2016)
A life led as fully, and as momentously, as the one led by the onetime, recently departed Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, deserves a final appraisal, a last celebration, and a send-off. That’s the least this world-famous pop icon should have expected, had … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Thicke, David Bowie, Gene Wilder, George Michael, John Glenn, Merle Haggard, Muhammed Ali, Prince, RIP, RIP 2016, Zsa Zsa Gabor
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Blue planet
Water is life so they say and they must have a point seven-tenths of earth’s surface is water after all but wait hold on more than 97 percent of that water is poisonous to us can’t drink it really rather … Continue reading
