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- What’s Your Problem with Joe Biden?
- Dirty Rubles: An Introduction to Trump/Russia (My New Book)
- Youth for the President
- A Summary of the Conspiracy Against the United States
- Trump: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Part 3)
- Postcards from the Resistance, Vol. 8: Mother of All
- From Lance Armstrong to Trump: The Rise & Fall of the Deified Narcissist
- Reading Malcolm X in Texas
- Playing the Donald Trump Game
- President Rapist: Women Under Trump
- An Open Letter to My Fellow Liberals
- The Democrats Can’t Win If They Won’t Fight
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Category Archives: The Arts
The Portrait-Sitter: Poverty, Intimacy, Paint, & Naples
In an excerpt from his memoir-in-progress, Cooking the Octopus, writer John Domini tells of a sweltering Naples afternoon spent as a painter’s subject. Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Memoir, The Arts
Tagged art, Italy, John Domini, Naples, painting, The Weeklings
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Eric Buchanan Is A Man With A Heart, Like Anybody. Maybe Even More So.
“I don’t put limits on myself, and I feel like I can—and I will—paint anything I want to, anything I can think of, and try any experiment I want. I don’t feel like I’m owned by pressure from a gallery to make this certain type of thing that sells, and stick with that because anything else will confuse people. I don’t care. I like being an independent because I don’t care if it confuses my audience. This is what I like.” Continue reading
Posted in The Arts
Tagged Abstract Expressionism, abstract painting, art, Asheville, Eric Lee Buchanan, Jackson Square, New Orleans, painting
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Protecting Pop’s Pilloried Plagiarists
It’s the sincerest form of flattery, and it’s not going away, but imitation as a means of creation does not enjoy the acceptance it once did. What once was homage is now plagiarism. Guest Weekling Charlie Clissitt goes to bat for practitioners of the age-old art of looking over the shoulders of giants. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciations, Monday Rock City, Music, The Arts, Uncategorized
Tagged Bob Dylan, jay z, kanye, mia, Otis Redding, Pitbull, Shakespeare, the clash, toots and the maytals
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An Interview with D. Foy–Part 2
Part 2 of Kurt Baumeister’s discussion with author D. Foy wherein the topic turns to matters as diverse as Foy’s literary influences and a dog named Mrs. Roosevelt. And there’s an excerpt from Patricide! Continue reading
An Interview with D. Foy–Part 1
In Part 1 of their two-part conversation, D. Foy and Kurt Baumeister discuss time, fathers, religion, capitalism, the state of literary fiction, and D.’s bold new book, Patricide. Continue reading
Posted in Literature, The Arts, Uncategorized
Tagged D. Foy, Kurt Baumeister, literary fiction, literature, Patricide, Stalking Horse Press, The Weeklings, time
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Fender Jazz
I had only recently discovered the glories of a naked body entwined with mine and, like every sex neophyte since time began, I had figured nothing would ever compare. I was wrong. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciations, Memoir, Monday Rock City, Music, Popped Culture, Popular Culture, Sex, The Arts
Tagged bildungsroman, Fender Jazz, robert burke warren
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The Most Revealing Prince Video
The most revealing Prince video. Watch it while you can. Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Music, Popped Culture, The Arts
Tagged Prince, Purple Rain, robert burke warren, the revolution
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