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	7/28/05 Click HERE for the latest totals. There is now reason to believe that this tally is not accurate by about a third. Go HERE. Update Storm coming up over the pond. I'm learning to slow down and not work so hard but I can't just sit still for long and don't seem to do any art up here. Today's reduced work load: paint a couple windows in the garage and stain three garage doors. Been working on my memoirs and finished a long piece called I Am A Drunk. The history of booze in the Dries family and coming to grips with addiction. I couldn't write it until I sobered up. And I didn't sober up until I had to. Also working on my addiction to music memoirs. This is as close as I get to religion. Fascinating.
	7/26/05 Update Those are a few of the Chanterelles I collected the other day. Well that damned t-storm the other night also knocked down a couple of trees up the hill, blocking the 4wd track. It's a wilderness up here. (But no terrorists.) So the project for the day was some "brush clearing" that The Shrub claims to love but I hate. I rejuvenated a chain saw I bought at a tag sale by putting in a new spark-plug. It floods itself half the time but when I get it going it does the job. (Caveat: By the time I get it started and spinning, I'm pretty whipped.) So with quite a few breaks and an ax or two, I did the job in a couple hours. And now I'm totally but full-up, really whipped. No real reason to drive up the hill but it is also a nice cross country ski trail that Ann & Emma & Kate like to do in the winter. Me, I like the downhill portion of cross country skiing but that's it. So far everyone who claimed they would take a road trip and visit The Derry/Dries 20 Acres (no Mule) has crapped out. Son Aaron says his business is busy, so that's good. And I'm going out there in September for a show at Augustana. Brother Daryl down in Austin would rather play with his grandson. That's kewl...I'll drag Kate down there in the Fall to check out U of T. Brother Dennis finds it hard to leave his basement apartment under any circumstances. Carl has been occupied with many other things and I'll also see him in September. Anyway, Emma will be up on Friday for the remainder of the summer. And I have to drive into Boston to hear Kate's performance on the 11th and bring her back on the 13th. (That's Kate singing with Billie when you visit this page.) Oh yeah, last night I spotted a yellow-jacket beehive in my gutter and stupidly tried to knock it down. Mama bee took about 2 seconds to find my forehead. Fucking Ow Man! Wiseing up quickly, I go to the barn and grab the hornet/bee/wasp spray that shoots about 20 feet. I sprayed those suckers unmercifully and killed them all. I feel so powerful. Imagine what The Shrub felt when he accomplished his mission in Iraq. Happy trails...
	7/24/05 Update Shot of the pond. Power went out Friday night for 12 hours during a gullywasher t-storm and I lay awake all night wondering how to save the 1/2 pig in my freezer. Luckily electricity came on in the morning and freezer held solid. Ann and Emma just came for the weekend, after 3 weeks at camp there was tons of laundry to do. But Ann got in her daily swims and she claims to love doing laundry cuz she used to help granny Bruhn do it as a child. On Saturday I met fellow Dylan fanatic Larry Bogdanow for some 'shroom picking. The weather was perfect, no humidity, no bugs, nice breeze in the woods. The woods behind his house is a mycological paradise in July/August. The Chanterelles abound to such a degree that if there were 100 of us each stocked with 10-5lb paper bags we still cound not clear this forest. Plus Larry found some tiny Black Chanterelles which never get much bigger than 1/2 inch across. We found a few decent Boletus nobilis and a few decent Chestnut boletes as well. Lots of Lactarius but I don't know them well enough yet to bother. I brought home 5 lbs and spent two hours cleaning them. Larry has sucessfully transplanted Chanterelles so I've tried a few patches also. We'll see. Last night, Rudd and Nina and Anna Felicia came over and I roasted one of my pal Paul's free-range organic chickens stuffed with lemons and garlic/rosemary and tarragon. Boled some tiny taters and rolled them in butter and dill. Made gravy with the Chanterelles and Boletes. Salad with a few tiny Red Chanterelles. This morning I sauteed most of the Chanterelles in olive oil and made 18 sandwich bag size packets to freeze and get me through the year. I kept a small pile fresh for my omelets and quesadillas for the next week or so. I sometimes chop a Jalapeno and saute them with the chanterelles. Come Thanksgiving, Terry Cozzolino, the guy who sold us this house, said he'll bring me one of the abundant wild turkeys around here in exchange for me teaching him the little I know about funghi. The Chanterelles go well in the gravy and also flavor a good risotto or wild rice. You can also add one of my packets to a nice cream sauce with some chicken breasts or chicken marsala. Hell, you can add it to ice cream. Emma will be back on Friday for all of August; two weeks of horse camp and a few days here or there with her gal pal Ava and whoever else is up this way. Summer is going well. Most projects have been finished and I'm polishing the memoirs before my mind goes completely..
	7/21/05 Releasing The Doves Carl & Dorothy at Solveig's memorial. Hope they do this for me when I go.
	7/20/05 Talk The Talk, Walk The Walk In Photoshop we can dream.
	7/19/05 Update Kate and her teacher Connie Crothers cut a few sides before she left for summer school which is what is playing in the background. Here's and old one from the 70s. Well, I was right, I'm getting a lot of re-writing done when I don't fritter my time on politics and newspapers and blogging. Plus I've been hunting mushrooms daily. And taking the first of 2-3 showers a day when I return. Found a tiny patch of Chanterelles and another one of Red Chanterelles. Our friends Larry & Deborah have patches after patches so I'll go over there on Saturday and scrounge a bushel to saute and freeze and dry a few for the year. Found a single Parasol mushroom and lots of Chestnut Boletes a little past their prime. Also found a dozen other inedible and thus mostly uninteresting shrooms. I did find one bright scarlet red one that was very beautuful but doubtful, so I put it into the compost. Found one pale yellow form of Morel but not securely edible so I will pass on that. I'm told the Morchella esculentas here came up with the first rains in May but I wasn't here at that time so I missed them. Whacked about 20 feet of cattails to expose a nice big boulder in the pond. So that's kewl. Emma will be coming for an overnight on Saturday and that is very kewl. Then she comes for the whole month of August to do horse camp with a woman who has 80 cats (she rescues endangered animals). Sounds like Grey Gardens to me. Think I found a decent tenant. 60ish, self-employed Perennial Gardener for 30 years, going through a divorce after 40 (count'em) years. Doesn't drink, just likes to watch TV in the winter. Finally saw a movie I've been wanting to see for 10-15 years. The Gods Must Be Crazy. Rent it if you haven't seen it. Typical Berkshire summer weather: Unbearably hit and humid until even god can't stand anymore then a gullywasher thunderstorm which is over in 20 minutes and the sun comes ouy again. This goes on for days, sometimes two or three times a day. I think it is a natural ecological device to keep you from mowing your lawn; it's always too wet. OK by me. I'm writing all this while uploading Kate & Billie. Here's an invention for someone: A non-toxic shower soap that has no odor that you put on in the morning to keep those pesky flying creatures from biting you, me. They are the only thing I hate about the country.
	7/13/05 Vacation Taking a hiatus from the blog until further notice. I'll skip a day or four here and there. If this leaves you bereft you can always go into the achives for interesting links you might have missed. Ellen Jantzen Interview Jewelry Artist, Digital Artist, Sculptor talks about her work. Go HERE. Trash Or Treasures One of the more interesting places in Red Rock, NY. Red Rock, like many towns around here, has a real estate agent, a bed & breakfast and an historical society. And then there is this place. Fave Artist Of The Day Nam June Paik is one of the two Video Artists (Wegman being the other) worth looking at. His work often includes video but never in a self-indulgent manner. Plus, like Wegman, he has a great sense of humor; like a Zen monk whacking you on the head with a giggle.
	7/12/05 Eager To Leave The Nest Flutterby Busted!!!!! Karl, Step Up To The Dock! Did I predict it days ago? Yes! Was it obvious from the start? Yes! Karl Rove, according to The Shrub's own words, "has to be fired". And go to jail? Yes, and let Judith Miller go home immediately. Go Gonzo Johnny! ASPEN, Colo. Jul 11, 2005 Friends and family of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson are preparing to pepper the sky with the late writer's ashes. His cremated remains will be shot into the air Aug. 20 from a cannon installed on a 150-foot-high tower behind his home in Woody Creek. The 67-year-old Thompson, who had been in failing health, shot himself at his home on Feb. 20 after a long and flamboyant career. Johnny Depp, a close friend of Thompson's, has hired a Beverly Hills events planner to oversee the event, which will be closed to the public. "Hunter meant a lot to me. He was another hero and someone that I got to know very well because I played him in `Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.' We got very, very close," Depp said in a recent interview with AP Television News. "He was a great pal, one of my best friends. We had talked a couple of times about his last wishes to be shot out of a cannon of his own design. All I'm doing is trying to make sure his last wish comes true. I just want to send my pal out the way he wants to go out". Anita Thompson, (the writer's widow who took the last call and heard the blast of the gun as he blew himself away), said a public commemoration of Thompson will be held later. MacDries says, "Or, perhaps, just blow him off by not showing. Sorry, I used to like his writing, because it closely coincided with my own political beliefs, but, in his end, the man was an ego-centric, drug-alcohol addled, selfish fuck." Piss Off Hunter. New Poem* by Emma's dad. Man Never Knows* One of my dear friends comes grazing down the slope across the ravine. Intelligently, she does not eat all the leaves from each similar plant. She takes a few from each pruning as she goes endearingly along the way. Comes she now closer. Is she the one who's been sleeping in my woodshed? Or perhaps the one whose two delightful fawns are prancing new. Fave Artist Of The Day They're called the Fayum Mummy paintings but who knows who painted these encaustics on the caskets of various mummies. All we know is that encaustic is one of the most flexible (i.e. durable) mediums for an artist to use (cf. Jasper Johns). That is, short of painting in a cave somewhere. and being discovered in a few millenniums. And they were pretty nice looking people. Sort of Mediterranean, no? Maybe Arabs, even.
	7/11/05 Sheriff's Department The tenant from hell has never made good on his bum check and his time is up. I'm told he will now be arrested and brought to court where he will be fined and/or jailed. I guess he's even more stupid than I thought he was. Fave Artist Of The Day Chris Burden was literally a hot shot while still in art school (he had himself shot) and he has continued to be a challenging artist. I never miss an opportunity to see what he's up too and he never repeats himself. This is Medusa's Head which I saw hanging in the entrance of The Brooklyn Museum and it is huge. Never sure what his work is about but don't really care either.
	7/10/05 Joke's On Me Turns out the piece of "Roseville" I thought I'd stolen is probably a fake. There were some details that looked suspicious and a couple flaws in the surface so I went online and... it's still pretty nice but... the bloom is off the Blackberry. Also turns out that much of what passes for Roseville are probably fakes. Buyer beware. Sun's Out Again So I got busy. Built the anchors for the dock. Then stained it and tomorrow I'll set the sucker and be done. Pulled a couple dozen cattails, then washed off a few layers of sweat and hung the front screen door. Then I added some extensions to the deck dining table and oiled it. Went back out and stained the underside of the dock and the front entrance and the spool table on the deck. And now I'm whipped. In the meantime, Kate called with settling in news and how her first audition and theory exam went. Her roomie is from France and is nice enough. Showertime! I'm wondering if all these little projects will ever end so I can be "creative" again. All My Girls, & Us Guys Gretchen was shooting a film in Dallas, last I heard, then back to L.A. to continue shooting that TV show about a medium with Patricia Arquette. Kate is at Berklee College Of Music for 5 weeks. Emma is at Camp Oneka in the Pocoonos doing her thing. And Ann is in NYC working. My son Aaron is planning a road trip in his Porsche to visit the Old Man sometime this summer. I'm a bit lonely. Roseville Pottery Here's what it looks like in case you run across some. Our friends Alison & Richard Crowell had a pretty extensive collection, much of which was destroyed, along with their house in one of those Pacific Palasades earthquakes. An old friend from grad school, Wm.Schwedler R.I.P. (one of the 1st New Yorkers to die of AIDS) was also an avid collector and used a similar palette in his Chicago Surrealist School paintings. That's where I first saw the stuff. Fave Artist Of The Day Alfred Leslie was a precocious 2nd or 3rd generation Ab-Exer who turned 180 degrees and started painting straight on, harshly lit, hyper-realistic B&W larger than life portraits of himself and others. A case of too much talent gone totally awry. But he's always fun to look at. Coulda been Abby Hoffman's body double. How does it go... Carl? "Yadda yadda... Pull My Daisy"
	7/9/05 Tag Sales Going Tag Sailing. A country tradition on summer weekends. Maybe buy some stuff I don't need, cheap. Got a nice glassed frame for .50 and 4 wooden salad bowls .10 ea. Managed to avoid buying anything I'd regret later in the day. Still rainy and cool. Went Tag Sailing again and scored a Roseville vase for $12, chisled down from $15. Now that's a steal. I love it when someone doesn't know what they have. They had tons of crap way over-priced and this one thing worth a couple hundred bucks. That's the game. Fave Artist Of The Day The feminists' favorite painter, gorgeous Georgia O'Keefe, looks like she's just gotten up. And Steiglitz got to sleep with her too. He used photography like a painter, which can be a good thing if not taken to extremes.
	7/8/05 I'm Wondering... Here's romDog's opinion: "it's simple... you are still yelling at the assholes rather than accepting that there are sharks in the water. You and I are both too old to waste any more time on them. They have always existed, and you began yelling at them, full time, sometime in the '70s or '80s. I don't really remember exactly when you changed from droll to angry, but you did. As for when, it started full time after your marriage. I always wondered if it had something to do with protecting your 3 girls. And yes there is a difference between intimidating and just plain grumpy. I am intimidating as hell when I want to be, but I seldom do it with grumpy, I think you have always seen this as a bit smarmy on my part." MacDries says, "Thanks Fred, interesting, but you never really knew the nice guy." Farmer's Hat I bought a farmers hat like this in the 70s. In the 80s I had a party and Hannah Wilke, infamous for wearing stylish hats came. I greeted her by plopping the hat on her lovely head as she came in the door, saying, "This will look good on you." Indeed it did and she later left with it. I've always missed that hat. Well, it seems they still make them and I bought one at the local Agway. Back to square. R.I.P Hannah. Kewl artist too. I'm Wondering... ...when or what it was that changed me. As a boy and as a young man I was always "the nice kid, the nice guy". My friends mothers always wanted them to be more like me. But somewhere along the line I became "The Curmudgeon". I became someone who intimidates people. If you know, let me know. It bothers me. I know, my kids still love me but they all agree, I am a curmudgeon and getting more so every year. Save The Day If you're in the neighborhood, stop by. I'm sure there will be good food, good people and good cheer in abundance. I'll be there in spirit. Everyone gets one mom. I feel fortunate to have had a second one. My Emma must have gotten the game gene from Solveig. Both of them mad for games of any kind. And good at them too. Love to Carl & Dorothy from Danny, Ann, Kate, Emma & Aaron & Gretchen. Fave Artist Of The Day Bunch of (French) savages did their thing way back in the day and no one has done it any better since. Lascaux, in case you didn't know.
	7/7/05 The Dock Lay awake last night off and on wondering if I'd be able to move the dock up to the pond by myself so I took a short nap after breakfast, trying to see if I could just lay around for a day. Nope. So I measured it and it fit a half way into the back of the jeep and seemed to balance OK. But I didn't count on the steep hill up to the pond, which is to say physics. And rumble rumble the damn thing slid out and down the hill about 10 yards. Now I'm in trouble. Dragged it back and up into the jeep. Huffing and puffing. A couple of bungy cords and some string will not do the trick. So I huff and puff down one hill and huff and puff up the long drive (horse flies pestering me) to the house for a couple of Mylanta tabs and some bug spray before I search for some sturdy rope. Got that and it's back down the drive and back up the hill to the car. Took some figuring about where to tie it off but settled on the door post. Then ever so gently in 4W-drive I made it up the rest of the way to the pond. Had a couple of concrete blocks to anchor the two ceramic chimney flues I bought as the base for the dock. Gravity will basically hold it in place but the drop off was a bit precipitious for the length of the dock so I took a break to drive to the stone yard for a few paving slabs to elevate it 3-4 inches. And that's where it sits until tomorrow. Called Kate and she was a bit freaked about the London thing since she was one of the kids who was actually in the 9-11 thing. Here we go again. Just when the bunkers were easing off a bit in the city, up they go again. Glad I'm out of there. Hope they don't blast the news to Emma and her gal pals at camp. She was even younger and saw the planes hit. Ms. Congeniality2 Should have stopped at 1. Not horrible. Bullock is always nice to look at. Fave Artist Of The Day Here's Hans Haacke. The best and most subtle political artist of our time. I'm thinking perhaps Hans died recently but if not happy times. (Please inform.) I just haven't heard anythng from him lately. Hans was infamous for biting the hand that was supposedly feeding him. And that kind of artist is always in short supply if not extinct.
	7/6/05 Little Heroes "If journalists cannot be trusted to guarantee confidentiality, then journalists cannot function and there cannot be a free press." -Judith Miller - New York Times Correspondent MacDries says, "Unlike her weenie peer from Time Magazine who folded, claiming his source released him. Everybody knows Karl Rove was the leak. Bust him." Sandra Bullock OK, Ms Congenitality2 is the DVD of the evening. You got a problem with that? Redwing Blackbirds Emma will love these little birds. They're nesting in our cattails which Ann won't let me chop them back until the little birdie fly away. My Feet Are Killing Me! Sore heel and achilles tendon. Walking around like an old man, which, of course, I am. Gotta find a decent pair of shoes. There is very little level ground so my feet are getting a constant workout. Is that boring or what? Sorry, it's the best I can do. Built a 3' x 9' dock for the pond so the girls needn't step in the muck when they skinny dip. I emailed Emma that mom was skinny dipping and Kate emailed her again writing, "No Emma, she wasn't". Don't know why Kate was offended, she wasn't even there and technically mom did have on a swim cap and goggles. So there. Having my first Virgin Bloody Putanesca of the day and now to go check up on the Koi and frogs. Recipe: Tall glass, Clamato juice, wedge of lemon. (Shot [or 2] of vodka if you're allowed.) Sprinkle of tabasco or jalapeno sauce. Oh yeah, my cardio guy, Dr. Spiegel, called with the results of my stress test. Some scarring from previous heart attacks before the by-pass but overall better than the last test so whatever I'm doing keep doing it. Kvetching? That's mostly what I've been doing so I guess I have his imprimater to continue. Jimi!!!!!!! If you've never Experienced Jimi Hendriks (or even if you have) you should check out the RockUmentary DVD recently out on the man with the upside down guitar. He does our national anthem proudly. Plus much more. Fave Artist Of The Day Again, we could use a few polical artists, like Daumier. And what ever happened to Hans Haake?
	7/5/05 This Is Personal Every time I see a picture of The Shrub and his adoring masses, a wave of nausea overcomes me and I realize that the U.S. of Assholes elected him twice and nothing will ever take it back. Media Feeding Frenzy!!!!! Can't ya just feel it, even with the TV off. The MEDIA have their story for the summer. Supremes, Filibuster, C v. L, who is really a C? Or who is a closet L who will come back to bite Bush in the ass. Whoops, excuse me, how do you find the ass of a total ass? Fave Artist Of The Day Paul Granlund was an awesome dewd, artistically and as a man. He followed a sculptural tradition exemplified by the last two featured artists Donatello & Michaelangelo and carried on through Rodin and Degas. Even though some of his fellow Ab-Ex faculty thought he was a bit "academic", as long as he didn't try to be "hip" and get too abstract, his work was always excellent and interesting. He was an intellectual Lutheran and I assume stayed so for his whole life. Even though I was not, it was OK because he never forced his opinions on anyone. His spiritual life was his. Yours was yours. I may have mentioned before, when he passed on last year, that I worked for him one summer after art school. We'd work on his waxes and chasing his bronzes and making his molds and lo, at noontime, Edna, his devoted wife, would appear with one delicious lunch after another and we'd chat outside in the sun. Then back to work all afternoon. When quitting time came, we'd often have a gin'n tonic and look over the day's work. And at the end of the summer, we had more than one G&T and looked over the whole summmer's work spead out on the carpet in front of his fireplace: an edition of 6 copies of 4 different smallish bronzes commissioned by Sears for the Vincent Price Collection. Plus a couple larger commissions It took a few weeks of scrubbing to get rid of the green bronze stains on my hands but I cared not a whit. Best job I ever had for wages. I miss him but it is a comfort that such people manage to exist in a world of such little integrity. What I miss is the fact that I seldom saw him in later life. Maybe once or twice, while I've wasted days and weeks and months with an un-countable number of total jerks. ©Carl Grupp
	7/4/05 Happy 51st Ann Derry Not your usual 51 year old. We got Ann an IPod Shuffle and an Ellen Jantzen necklace for her Birthday. Kate and Emma got her the 1st season of Gilmore Girls on DVD. A bit of enlightened self-interest on the girls part but they have to watch it. Not me. We also had an incredible Maine lobster dinner last night, courtesy on Nina and Rudd. Fave Artist Of The Day Continuing on with Italian sculpture. I was in Rome when that whacko whacked the nose of Mike's Pieta. We had a tour of the basement and directly below the original was a plaster cast from which they re-created the nose with authentic marble dust and some sort of epoxy. You, nor I, cannot tell the difference. Now it is barricaded and you can't get close. Much like seeing the Mona Lisa under glass in the Louvre or Seurat's La Grande Jatte at the chicago Art Museum. http://www.etavonni.com/index.asp
	7/3/05 Gaylord Nelson R.I.P. @ 89 Liberal Wisconsin Senator, founder of Earth Day. He was one of three United States senators who voted against the $700 million appropriation that began the nation's expanded involvement in the Vietnam War. From a long line of intelligent liberal mid-west politicians. Robert "Fighting Bob" LaFollette, Humphrey, Mondale, Wellstone, Proxmire, Simon; where are you guys now that we need you? Federer & Venus That's the Wimbledon wrap. Federer is looking more like Borg and maybe even Sampras. He's seems even more effortless at times. Time will tell if he holds up and wins the hard ones, like Pete against Agassi or Bjorn against McEnroe. How Handsome? Dee Grupp wants to know. Brancusi by Steichen (edited). Batman Sucks From The Beginning My wife and daughter talked me into going, against my better judgement. 10 minutes in and i was thinking of how to escape. But I'd driven them into town so I was stuck. They both thought it was thoroughly enjoyable. I thought it was incredibly boring. Not Vouching For The Accuracy Of This The next time you open a can of Carnation evaporated milk for your recipes, just smile and think of this. A little old lady from North Carolina had worked in and around her family dairy farms since she was old enough to walk, with hours of hard work and little compensation. When canned Carnation Milk became available in grocery stores, she read an advertisement offering $5,000 for the best slogan/rhyme beginning with "Carnation Milk is best of all." She sent in her entry, and about a week later, a black limo drove up in front of her house. A man got out and said "Carnation 'LOVED' your entry so much, that even though we will not be able to use it, we are here to award you a consolation prize of $1000, that we've made available just for the originality of your entry. Here is her original entry: 'Carnation milk is best of all, no tits to pull, no hay to haul no buckets to wash, no shit to pitch, just poke a hole in the son-of-a-bitch.' Fave Artist Of The Day David by Donatello. Doncha just love the hat?
	7/2/05 Rain In the city, rain is mostly a nuisance, cheap umbralla turned inside out, when you have to be somewhere. In the country rain is very pleasant. Except for the fact that the guy who mows the difficult parts of your estate can't schedule you for a week or two because the grass is wet or the slope is slippery. Who cares. So the grass gets extra long. I don't care. Plus, I just sat on my deck and let the early summer shower cool me off and soak me through and through while I sipped my Clamato juice with lemon on ice listening to iTunes party Shuffle. Only thing better would have been the same with a double-shot of vodka (I invented and named this drink a Bloody Putanesca) or a Beck's on ice or a double Beefeaters Gin'n tonic. In the mid-west the old Germans liked their beer with tomato juice in the summer. Who cares? I do. Catch the emerging theme of the summer? Carefree!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm old. I deserve to sit on my ass. And I intend to do just that. Perhaps make a bit of art or finish the memoirs. I always associate Tiger Lilies with July 4th because my favorite photo of Mama Buddah and Me was taken shelling peas when I was about 3 during The Great War. And sure enough we have a few out by the pond. Plus it's Ann's 51st coming up. Koi Put this little sucker into the pond a month ago or so. It was 5 inches at the time and is already up to 8 inches. I dropped 5 various goldfish and I've since seen 3 at one time. I Can't Stand It Now Bush gets to nominate two (2) Supremes. We all know Rehnquist will fold soon; he's just in denial. So the woman slot goes to...?????????? Tom Cruise!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But seriously folks, don't ya kinda think we're in deep shit here? Unless you consider the fact that it is 2 Conservatives who are being replaced by two Conservatives. And maybe The Shrub will make a mistake like Daddy Bush did with Souter. Stevens better hang in there like grim death until... Whoops! I forgot it's MacCain's turn next. So add 8 years... how old is Stevens? Nope won't compute. Fave Artist Of The Day Since this spot is somewhat painter heavy, let's give another day to Constantin Brancusi. Just cuz he was so damn handsome.
	7/1/05 Tom Cruise Please shut up, please. And you "media-persons" too. Please shut up about Tom Cruise, please. We don't care if he's stupid/smart, straight/gay, informed/glib. We don't care. He has a new movie. We don't care. He's a Scientologist. We don't care. What is Scientology? We don't care. Drunken Congresspersons Yesterdays item was found to be a hoax. Sorry. Go HERE. Forgot To Tell You Kate and I saw Richard Thompson in WFCenter downtown on Tuesday night. Solo acoustic but RT sounds better than most bands. He can play rhythm & lead guitar at the same time while singing. Kate was positively giddy afterwards. He sang a new (Egyptian) song called My Daddy Is A Mummy. Hilarious. Also a new one about bright dames called I Got The Hots For The Smarts. As I said, if you don't listen to him and also his ex Linda and their son Teddy, well you're missing alot. Another Month Shot To Hell Some sort of duck landed in the pond yesterday but it flew away before I could identify it. Fave Artist Of The Day I love these shots of Brancusi's studio. The sculpture seems to meld from one to another like his endless columns.
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