MacDries says, "I once tried to collaborate with Ann. She had a 10 page scetch for a screenplay that she was never going to write. I asked her if I could write it, she said OK and I did. She read it, said she liked it except for a few things. She re-wrote it and I hated what she had done to it."
"That was the first time we almost got divorced."
"Over art?"
"I gave it back to her and she will never re-write it."
"So it goes."
Some Art

1 of 100 - 11"x8.5"
Dilbert
Scott Adams has a good blog today. Go HERE.
Virtual Ron
He wasn't wrong, neither was Gravel.

War, Inc.
A movie I might actually go to see in a theatre. From John Cusack.

Stephen Hawking's Website
Go HERE.

America I've given you all and now I'm nothing.
America two dollars and twenty-seven cents January 17, 1956.
I can't stand my own mind.
America when will we end the human war?
Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb
I don't feel good don't bother me.
I won't write my poem till I'm in my right mind.
America when will you be angelic?
When will you take off your clothes?
When will you look at yourself through the grave?
When will you be worthy of your million Trotskyites?
America why are your libraries full of tears?
America when will you send your eggs to India?
I'm sick of your insane demands.
When can I go into the supermarket and buy what I need with my good looks?
America after all it is you and I who are perfect not the next world.
Your machinery is too much for me.
You made me want to be a saint.
There must be some other way to settle this argument.
Burroughs is in Tangiers I don't think he'll come back it's sinister.
Are you being sinister or is this some form of practical joke?
I'm trying to come to the point.
I refuse to give up my obsession.
America stop pushing I know what I'm doing.
America the plum blossoms are falling.
I haven't read the newspapers for months, everyday somebody goes on trial for
murder.
America I feel sentimental about the Wobblies.
America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I'm not sorry.
I smoke marijuana every chance I get.
I sit in my house for days on end and stare at the roses in the closet.
When I go to Chinatown I get drunk and never get laid.
My mind is made up there's going to be trouble.
You should have seen me reading Marx.
My psychoanalyst thinks I'm perfectly right.
I won't say the Lord's Prayer.
I have mystical visions and cosmic vibrations.
America I still haven't told you what you did to Uncle Max after he came over
from Russia.

I'm addressing you.
Are you going to let our emotional life be run by Time Magazine?
I'm obsessed by Time Magazine.
I read it every week.
Its cover stares at me every time I slink past the corner candystore.
I read it in the basement of the Berkeley Public Library.
It's always telling me about responsibility. Businessmen are serious. Movie
producers are serious. Everybody's serious but me.
It occurs to me that I am America.
I am talking to myself again.

Asia is rising against me.
I haven't got a chinaman's chance.
I'd better consider my national resources.
My national resources consist of two joints of marijuana millions of genitals
an unpublishable private literature that goes 1400 miles and hour and
twentyfivethousand mental institutions.
I say nothing about my prisons nor the millions of underpriviliged who live in
my flowerpots under the light of five hundred suns.
I have abolished the whorehouses of France, Tangiers is the next to go.
My ambition is to be President despite the fact that I'm a Catholic.

America how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?
I will continue like Henry Ford my strophes are as individual as his
automobiles more so they're all different sexes
America I will sell you strophes $2500 apiece $500 down on your old strophe
America free Tom Mooney
America save the Spanish Loyalists
America Sacco & Vanzetti must not die
America I am the Scottsboro boys.
America when I was seven momma took me to Communist Cell meetings they
sold us garbanzos a handful per ticket a ticket costs a nickel and the
speeches were free everybody was angelic and sentimental about the
workers it was all so sincere you have no idea what a good thing the party
was in 1935 Scott Nearing was a grand old man a real mensch Mother
Bloor made me cry I once saw Israel Amter plain. Everybody must have
been a spy.
America you don're really want to go to war.
America it's them bad Russians.
Them Russians them Russians and them Chinamen. And them Russians.
The Russia wants to eat us alive. The Russia's power mad. She wants to take
our cars from out our garages.
Her wants to grab Chicago. Her needs a Red Reader's Digest. her wants our
auto plants in Siberia. Him big bureaucracy running our fillingstations.
That no good. Ugh. Him makes Indians learn read. Him need big black niggers.
Hah. Her make us all work sixteen hours a day. Help.
America this is quite serious.
America this is the impression I get from looking in the television set.
America is this correct?
I'd better get right down to the job.
It's true I don't want to join the Army or turn lathes in precision parts
factories, I'm nearsighted and psychopathic anyway.
America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.
-- Allen Ginsburg
Women Drivers
When I was a boy it was common to hear criticism of "women drivers" much like New Yorkers like to yell at those from New Jersey when they get caught doing something stupid on our streets. Well... Go HERE.
St. John On Stephanopolouse
Neither of the boys were wearing a flag pin. Go HERE.
Hallowed Ground
Papa Bennie visits "Ground Zero" and now saying Mass @ Yankee Stadium. What a mind set.
Meanwhile I'm listening to Al Green singing Glory To His Name on this Sunday afternoon.
For Kate

Emmylou & Ryan

Some Art

1 of 200 - 11"x9" Synapse Shots.
The Boss
Many videos of concert footage. Go HERE.

2. I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her?

3. I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her period of menstrual uncleanliness Lev.15: 19-24. The problem is how do I tell? I have tried asking, but most women take offense.

4. When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odor for the Lord - Lev.1:9. The problem is, my neighbors. They claim the odor is not pleasing to them. Should I smite them?

5. I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself, or should I ask the police to do it?

6. A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination - Lev. 11:10, it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don't agree. Can you settle this? Are there 'degrees' of abomination?

7. Lev. 21:20 states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear reading glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle-room here?

8. Most of my male friends get their hair trimmed, including the hair around their temples, even though this is expressly forbidden by Lev. 19:27. How should they die?

9. I know from Lev. 11:6-8 that touching the skin of a dead pig makes me unclean, but may I still play football if I wear gloves?

10. My uncle has a farm. He violates Lev. 19:19 by planting two different crops in the same field, as does his wife by wearing garments made of two different kinds of thread (cotton/polyester blend). He also tends to curse and blaspheme a lot. Is it really necessary that we go to all the trouble of getting the whole town together to stone them? - Lev. 24:10-16. Couldn't we just burn them to death at a private family affair, as we do with people who sleep with their in-laws? (Lev. 20:14)

I know you have studied these things extensively and thus enjoy considerable expertise in such matters, so I am confident you can help. Thank you again for reminding us that God's word is eternal and unchanging.

A Concerned Christian American
Russert In Bed With Bush/Cheney
Go HERE.
Worth Repeating
Almost all paint.
The Apple i
Hillarious spoof of Steve. Emma will like this.

Ram Rahman will place contemporary Indian photography into the context of the 'lost' histories of photography in the post-independence era. He will talk about photographers who have been crucial figures in the last decade of the struggle for independence struggle and the first decades after independence. Much of this material has not been in the public eye for decades and is a visual archive which has barely been studied. Sunil Janah, Margaret Bourke-White, Cecil Beaton, Kishor Parekh, William Gedney are some of the photographers he will focus on. Ram will show rare photos of Mahatma Gandhi, particularly those taken by Sunil Janah. His own pictures of Gandhi in the popular street idiom will also be featured.
Justice
Former AG Gonzo can't get a job. He's lucky he's not dis-barred. Go HERE.

Grandpa died last week
And now he's buried in the rocks,
But everybody still talks about
How badly they were shocked.
But me, I expected it to happen,
I knew he'd lost control
When he built a fire on main street
And shot it full of holes.
Oh, mama, can this really be the end,
To be stuck inside of mobile
With the memphis blues again.

Go HERE for complete lyric.
Quote Of The Day
"I'll cut the deficit like Reagan."
-- John McCain
Problem is: Reagan increased the deficit. Go HERE.
And Go HERE.
Caroline Rose Hanover
Used to be Rudy's daughter. Go HERE.

MacDries says, "OK, I'm there. My old gal pal Terry and her husband go there and have encouraged me. It's the week of my b-day so why not."
Go HERE.
Gore As Savior
I was for Gore way before I was against him. All this recent talk of a brokered convention and Gore coming out as the nominee is mere pish tosh. Wanna piss off a whole bunch of Obama/Clinton supporters to sit it out or even vote for St. John? Ain't gonna wash except in a Dem Death Wish scenario.
Rembrandt v. Koons
Interesting take on the current Art world. Go HERE.
Quote Of The Day
"It was a beautiful thing to see -- because the moment a presidential candidate is forced to vow that he or she isn't quitting, you know they are toast." Go HERE.
Leopard 10.5.2
Sparkler is thrilled with the new Mac OSX but I'm finding it a bit buggy. It's taken me all day to re-install my main apps and set-up prefs but I always like to do a clean install. Almost done except for music. I can network my 20 gig library from the other Powerbook so I have 40 gigs on this one for more music.
Fools' Day
Our 5th year begins (last month but I didn't notice).

Back at'cha Shrub. You little twerp!
Go HERE to see the whole tape.

For The Latest Dries Art GO HERE
For The Latest CyberToonz GO HERE
I've never actually watched an episode of The Simpsons (I'm more of a Pixar kind of guy) butt...
*Dislaimer

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