stephenericberry.bsky.social
Husband of Diane Aronoff, listener, reader, artist. Trump-free zone.
Link to "The Children's Holiday," my latest film: https://vimeo.com/807495629
Banner image detail by Detroit-area artist John Elkerr. Please visit: https://www.johnelkerr.com/
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Thanks, exquisitely sinister, twisted facial hair, suggestive of absinthe to drink and wear -- could be a scene from Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita."
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Beautiful.
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Gorgeous, lyrical work. I sense that I'm near artifacts of solitude.
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I've always found it interesting that de Chirico's work has had such afterlife in books and articles in the field of psychiatry, particularly schizophrenia and the so-called "Alice in Wonderland Syndrome."
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Of course, he was obsessed with the derriere. But that's just the start of it. So much of this piece would have been totally at home in Dali's "Dream of Venus" fun house in the 1939 World's Fair.
www.openculture.com/2021/06/when...
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Somewhere, Dali is smiling.
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I like three things about this piece:
1) the super-saturated blue;
2) the paradox of why the force of the spatter did not move the papers; and
3) how the paint holds its elasticity off the edges of the paper as if to lock the delicate waterfalls in place.
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Pretty and disturbed have a prickly way of enjoying each other's company. You might get to sleep with her, if she doesn't kill you first.
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Absolutely. Also be sure to describe shapes and colors with a sprinkling of imagination. Losing your sight does not mean losing your vision.
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"That boy ain't right."
No question about it.
Red spots on hands?
Clear as day.
Late-stage syphilis?
Maybe.
A brew of psychopathies?
Warm.
Accelerated age-related dementia?
Warmer.
Born an asshole?
Bingo.
youtu.be/uD2WYgtNgng?...
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So where's Patel's "Deep State Museum?" Maybe he'll open it right out on the Strip, spruced up from its current dumpy brown. Could become a hotspot for street walkers on those kitschy palm nights when the obese Director feels like chasing a wild hair.
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Superb graphic of racial demography in the U.S. prior to The Great Migration, beautifully rendered in a proto-Dada style.
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Looks like a channeling of Diebenkorn -- with generous suffusion of a horizonless black infinity.
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I hear/see in this image the resolution of "Baltimore" by Randy Newman.
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My God, Randy Newman and Cat Steven's should have recorded an album together.
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...wine for the woman who made the rain come...
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Exactly. If the present is any guide, the warlords of the future will be overseen by a confederacy of corporate stooges, like Musk. Believers in the festering delusion that democracy was a disease they saved us all from. They'll want us to be grateful. They're already laughing at us.
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I like that: bloated tick. Is that original? The difference is that ticks know when to stop eating -- that's when they fall off. Musk has no ability to regulate his bloating or to fall off his prey. Unlike a tick, I believe he will eventually explode.
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"Tea for the Tillerman," I'd say.
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So sorry to hear that. They've lost a treasure.
MAGA is like a Matrix-level cerebral pathogen.
(I'd link the YouTube clip of Keanu Reeves getting bugged, but it might trigger the snowflakes among us. Can't have that.)
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I'd say there's still one good thing about The Washington
Post -- the crossword puzzle.
Ben Bradley, if you're out there in the eternal void, don't despair: the average time it takes for a democracy to return is 21 years. Blink of an eye.
lynmillerlachmann.com/lost-your-de...
#thewashingtonpost
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All true, my job at the University of Michigan is on the chopping block. We provide the national data set on teen risk behavior, school safety, bullying etc...looks like it's all going away. (By the way, it's triumvirate, plus using "vir" makes a nice play on words for anything virological.)
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This is the obvious read. We see it every day. Tell us something we don't already know.
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Okay, so what's your act of resistance, other than this post?
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Thanks, I'll have to read this.
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If you want me to go on with how unread I am, I'll oblige.
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In November, I fell under the spell of this haunting book by Fritzche. This book is a wormhole of slow thunder, jackboots on cobblestones, candle-lit brews of marching faces...a haunting and eerily familiar blueprint to the most popular dictatorship of the 20th century.
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In Dec. I finished Plotkin's unforgettable portraits of the lives of Berliners (circa 1933) amid the cudgel of Hitlerfaschismus. Plotkin suggests a vocabulary for the future: Casernas (detention barracks outside the control of the army or the police) and Beseitzung (occupations of bldgs) we see now.
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Just lately I've devoured this book by Ryback, exploring the gritty backroom politics that swept Hitler into power, how Little Hitlers preceded the Real One, and how the 84-year old Hindenburg was squeezed into a nightmarish corner by a man garnering only 37 percent of the vote.
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Thanks, I'm a voracious reader of history, particularly concerning the Third Reich. I didn't intend to "dismiss" your writing, only to note the repetition of this trope about 20-somethings, to question what that really means. I haven't read any reliable reports about the gender of Musk's busy elves.
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I am a researcher at the University of Michigan who works on the preeminent study of teenage substance use for the U.S. Every penny of my paycheck depends on grant funding from the NIH. As we celebrate the 50th year of our project tomorrow, the Trump slash-and-burn cuts threaten all of our jobs.
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Not a problem. My adjectives sometimes lead me into hyperbole. I hope there is a silver lining in this latest news.
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I'm currently reading your book. Every American should be reading it now.
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Not a chance. Your analysis of the Trump administration as a techno-corporate monarchy is brilliant.
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C'mon, it's ludicrious when commentators underline the ages of Musk's 20-something workers. Like that's a thing. Theft is theft. What's age have to do with it? If Musk's "kids" were all 40-something would that somehow relieve us all?
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We used to subscribe to The Washington Post. If I see a WP post on my news feed, I skip it.
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All ready for my usual avalanche of three people to kitsch a red heart.
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I love Laura Nyro! Incendiary, smart, so beyond sexy. I have given away more copies of "Christmas and Beads of Sweat" than any album I've ever owned. Song Exhibit A: "Blackpatch."
youtu.be/fLGTC0NIrUU?...
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Yes. Thanks.
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That tiny figure on the beach is nearly microscopic. I understand Dali, at times, painted with a single hair and a large magnifying lens.
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So sorry to hear about your pain. I hope you can get it resolved soon. Pain meds have been a godsend for me.