Amar always writes these like two word reviews of artworks he's seen so that he can remember them. I went to the Smithsonian American Art Museum and had that in mind.

James Hampton "The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly"

A foil throne. A giant, crazy altar.

Thomas Wilmer Dewing

Sergeant knock-off from when Boston must have been teeming with them. Wash of color, apparitions.

Robert Henri "At Far Rockaway"

Love the brushstroke flags.

George Inness "Niagara Falls"

One smokestack. Scratchy turquoise.

William H. Johnson "Cafe"

Passerby said people are finally discovering him (Johnson). Bald black dude, nice checked suit and hat, drinks wine with purple hatted woman. Very square. Oil on paperboard.

Franz Kline "Merce C"

Everything I like about Kline. The methodical sloppiness and uneasy disorder.

Norman Lewis "Evening Rendezvous"

Klan meeting in red, white, and blue, but could be cover of a science textbook.

Robert Rauschenberg "Reservoir"

Working clocks, broken wheel.

Nam June Paik "Zen For TV"

After this, the deluge of art made out of TVs.

Nam June Paik "Electronic Superhighway"

Case in point.

Neon states and TVs. Penn gets Warhol. NY gets "Empire." D.C. is you. Weird dancing in Washington state.

Robert Longo "Untitled (Hercules)" (08)

Charcoal atomic explosion looks like frilly dress.

Kehinde Wiley's LL Cool J

Winslow Homer's Maine rocks

The last two didn't have any notes for some reason.

Look, everybody, I voted for Capuano and then I voted for Coakley.

Fucking fuck fuck.

Even if including a recording backward guitar or a backward horn track doesn't automatically make your song sound awesome, it has never made it sound worse than it would have sounded otherwise. Am I right?

So, I walked into Twisted Village, a record store in Harvard Square, and the clerk had this really cute baby who was staring at me. Electronic tones beeped on the store's P.A.

"Is this Soothing Sounds for Baby?" I asked.

"Yup," the clerk replied.

"She certainly seems soothed."

"One of the reasons for having a baby was to find out if this album worked," she said.

Google rarely fucks up so badly, but they've got to have somebody rethinking their completely fucktarded idea of including live Twitter updates in their search results. Twitter is dying y'all. And there's basically nothing more useless than seeing that 1000s of people are saying the same stupid shit about news item X.

So, a couple of weeks ago, I went to the Boston Comic Con and bought a crapload of Jack Kirby comics, including nearly the entire run of OMAC, from this one dude who only sells comics twice a year, at the Boston Comic Con.

Check out this splash page from Strange Tales #142 (March 1966), in which Stan Lee and Jack Kirby invent ED-209! I especially like the snide Stan Lee aside "To give you an example of our generosity, this robot isn't even important to our yarn!" Click to embiggen.

Just saw this John Cage video on Alex Ross's awesome blog. I love that it's basically a musical slapstick sequence, and, since Cage is performing it live in front of a game show audience of regular folks, people are laughing and enjoying it instead of sitting still in awed silence. Still unclear to me which reaction Cage would like better, but, as a good Buddhist, not to mention Duchampian, he probably didn't give a shit.

Dudes and Dudines. Conservapedia is like Dickipedia for crazy people. The entry on Obama, for example, has a lengthy section on "Obamunism," including a subsection on Larry Summers(!) a man whose "evil views qualify him to be the economic advisor to Hugo Chavez of Venezuela or Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, but do not qualify him to be an economic advisor to the President of the United States."

Or, you know, any other completely unrelated dictator.

Also, according to this entry, socialized medicine "has the effect of generally less efficient health care, as well as providing a disincentive to work."

It might be interesting to compare grammatical proficiency of "trustworthy" encyclopedias like Conservapedia and those with a liberal bias.

( This entire post is a long, rambling, and probably boring BSG spoiler )

Hey, Karin, me too.