Filed under: america, art, los angeles | Tags: art, auction, auctioneer, bob dylan, bonhams & Butterfields, painting
Greg Hildebrandt, Untitled (Portrait of Bob Dylan in Profile) 18 1/4 x 18 1/2in
Sometimes you can’t help but hate your job; sometimes you can’t help but love your job.
The latter seems to be poignantly correct with my current jobs.
The auction house I work for, Bonhams & Butterfields, had an auction just this past Sunday. As per usual they had some amazing pieces, however it was this one that happened to catch my attention. This iconic piece was sold off for $2,700. Bob seems to still have that magic touch.
Filed under: america, literature | Tags: 1920's, algonquin round table, dorothy parker, poet, poetry
If I continue to read Mrs. Parker I’m afraid I’ll fall into what some may consider an abyss.
I’m sure I’d consider it bliss.
Razors pain you
Rivers are damp
Acids stain you
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren’t lawful
Nooses give
Gas smells awful
You might as well live.
-Dorothy Parker
Never trite, ever so snide.
Always combating that which we hide.
Her wit certainly puts yours to shame.
Filed under: america, art | Tags: barrack obama, elections, obey, poster, shepard fairey
shepared fairey that is.
and tell me, what better posse can you have?
Filed under: america, literature, tid bits | Tags: america, books, borat, kurt vonnegut, literature, quote, robert pinsky
Having just watched Borat for the first time I couldn’t help but feel the usual disgust, shock and awe at just how deranged we Americans truly are.
However – and I use this with the utmost emphasis – after starting to read Timequake
by the late, great, Kurt Vonnegut I came across a quote by the poet, Robert Pinsky:
“It was all here for me, just as it has all been for you, the best and worst of Western Civilization, if you cared to pay attention: music, finance, government, architecture, law and sculpture and painting, history and medicine and athletics and every sort of science and books, books, books and teachers and role models.
“People so smart you can’t believe it and people so dumb you can’t believe it. People so nice you can’t believe it and people so mean you can’t believe it.”
Of course he was only referring to Indianapolis during this speech. I on the other hand like to think of it as an ode to the whole US of A.
God bless the unbelievably good parts of America.
