tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57061548946837125242024-03-19T01:47:35.259-07:00Christopher ShillockPoet, Philosopher, RadicalTCBardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16273465648624108537noreply@blogger.comBlogger87125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706154894683712524.post-21910571479686196882024-01-25T16:51:00.000-08:002024-03-08T18:33:50.787-08:00Another Year in My Life - 2023<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The serious part first.</span></b><br /><br />It stands to reason that the older you get, the more of your friends will have died. Still, this year it feels like I've lost a lot of the people I loved, and most tragically, Tabatha.<br /> <br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Leighton Scott</span></b> - "Scotty", died in December 2022 but I didn't find out until this year. . There were three <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnZiY_oAjnb6m5EkKxD7WcdRE-vFKkO0epwFdF6uEPqD7oQhuhdzjGwU2jZJ3VPe4YUMGrug7RjVTYC82VXPFJJr_OnG7CKpKfHYOthMMlcmBZs_A2YfleDtPtN3RA1mtypOSbDY6UEUPAaYzPhooEXY4x5G9y4HlsVc1CQwmA6nKgF7dTcwbKKVFZL84/s255/Clipboard04.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="236" data-original-width="255" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnZiY_oAjnb6m5EkKxD7WcdRE-vFKkO0epwFdF6uEPqD7oQhuhdzjGwU2jZJ3VPe4YUMGrug7RjVTYC82VXPFJJr_OnG7CKpKfHYOthMMlcmBZs_A2YfleDtPtN3RA1mtypOSbDY6UEUPAaYzPhooEXY4x5G9y4HlsVc1CQwmA6nKgF7dTcwbKKVFZL84/w200-h185/Clipboard04.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>of us roommates Freshman year: Scotty, <a href="https://jlinnallen.com/index.html" target="_blank">Linn Allen </a>and myself. We soon got a reputation as "Bohemians". Beatniks hadn't been invented yet. Other class members would gather in our dorm room and berate us for giving Haverford College a bad reputation and hurting their furture career opportunities. True story - it was the 1950's and young people really thought that way.<br /><br />Linn and I were the literary types; Scotty was down to earth. Linn became a journalist</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> and</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> a playwright.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">In the class yearbook,</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> he described a future Scotty who<br /><blockquote> <i>"...devotes a good part of his time to the moral mission of offending the fragile aesthete. Plagued by timid professors who falter and drop their pencils when fixed with the unwavering indifference of his cold eye, he pacifies them with the gentle obscurity of his literary style. Sadly we watch as he tramps off into the jungle, his .600 nitro-cxpress in one hand and his Sidney's Arcadia " in the other."</i></blockquote>Linn's foresight was 20/20. Scotty got a PhD in History at Cambridge and taught interdisciplinary courses at Appalachian State University. Summers he worked as a bounty hunter and was involved somehow in the conflict in Bosnia. Sometime around my divorce I engaged him in a long drunken phone call late at night. Scotty didn't show much interest in me or in what I was doing </span><span style="font-family: arial;">after that</span><span style="font-family: arial;">. Fair enough. I don't blame him.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Ike Russell</b> </span>was the bass player in our band. A sweet kid, at least 20 years younger than the rest of us in <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjipA2F_2-NBKZ23d9P62KzhxJoyIOom_LUeUoWrqY25qDYIJRE6cI24v5DFONe2aV-VW_f-B7l1Pt5wY5zRiQAzKQi9te7eEvTKOjnx04SSebgqHUm3ZIRUlQRyFdbZZj1MVR79h5WAsCx938ZKHDtpRZLTvUITax05y3zVu7hWTf3jx3uFDb3hTElR3Y/s340/IKE2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="316" data-original-width="340" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjipA2F_2-NBKZ23d9P62KzhxJoyIOom_LUeUoWrqY25qDYIJRE6cI24v5DFONe2aV-VW_f-B7l1Pt5wY5zRiQAzKQi9te7eEvTKOjnx04SSebgqHUm3ZIRUlQRyFdbZZj1MVR79h5WAsCx938ZKHDtpRZLTvUITax05y3zVu7hWTf3jx3uFDb3hTElR3Y/w200-h186/IKE2.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>the band. He was about to get married and I used to joke to the women in the crowd, they'd better grab him now, while he was still available. <br /><br />Last year he started posting incoherent speeches on Facebook. One day in March he left his home and never returned. MISSING posters started appearing around town especially on Minneapolis' West Bank where a lot his music venues were located. Six weeks later his body was found floating in the floodplain of the Mississippi, 50 miles down stream. At that point, someone posted <a href="https://ikerussellhart.bandcamp.com/track/paradise" target="_blank">one of Ike's last songs</a> on Bandcamp. It ended</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><blockquote><a href="https://ikerussellhart.bandcamp.com/track/paradise" target="_blank">When I die put my ashes in Buckman lake gently,<br />let my soul go on up to the old witches tree.<br />I’ll be half way to heaven with Paradise waiting.<br /> Just 5 miles away from wherever I’d be</a></blockquote>Tabatha, Rich and I went to Ike's service. There were over 300 people there, ironically more than ever came to any of his shows.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Tabatha Predovich</b> </span>was my singer. I loved her more than I've ever loved anyone outside my family; and <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQpaEq0VD1gSys_O7eHhVjL8TFTgr5sC_v5mAKSc4CFX4P2m_3E86bnPUvXD-uFO9pGtWmRrsgp0Zp7oG6Puizj77MZY8PLc-FB3BiSzBnqnT6dbrLqGDx_gFtJOY2PDUdwreGRZmAUha1H6mt-DbgZSevEDp0bGnjH2ksdBoaGvZTutdhHzBoWPsMXWc/s391/tab.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="316" data-original-width="391" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQpaEq0VD1gSys_O7eHhVjL8TFTgr5sC_v5mAKSc4CFX4P2m_3E86bnPUvXD-uFO9pGtWmRrsgp0Zp7oG6Puizj77MZY8PLc-FB3BiSzBnqnT6dbrLqGDx_gFtJOY2PDUdwreGRZmAUha1H6mt-DbgZSevEDp0bGnjH2ksdBoaGvZTutdhHzBoWPsMXWc/w200-h162/tab.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>the last thing she said to me, five days before she died, was the word<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxlCog2ZdrJ1i9INYs7KWaYvHkv1adDSMl1dF5YUy2ppDRPaK3c6UTsbsnf7x17qcZfR2oIGIJrv4tHCkeHL_kYt04OAFuN3gf_ht792cSfBXxaHn7oaKmrR04C7hQafHdjhPCOHdg7T8Xs7QabMAgzql6V6uue165I6qzR94xZOiN9ZIX4oEV9AI3Rx0/s230/Last%20Word3.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="123" data-original-width="230" height="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxlCog2ZdrJ1i9INYs7KWaYvHkv1adDSMl1dF5YUy2ppDRPaK3c6UTsbsnf7x17qcZfR2oIGIJrv4tHCkeHL_kYt04OAFuN3gf_ht792cSfBXxaHn7oaKmrR04C7hQafHdjhPCOHdg7T8Xs7QabMAgzql6V6uue165I6qzR94xZOiN9ZIX4oEV9AI3Rx0/w212-h113/Last%20Word3.jpg" width="212" /></a></span><span style="font-family: arial;">"Love."
After I gave our CD to French jazz singer, <a href="https://minaagossi.fr/" target="_blank">Mina Agossi,</a> Mina invited
me to read a poem </span><span style="font-family: arial;">in Paris </span><span style="font-family: arial;">at her next release, a trip which gave me
the opportunity to introduce my granddaughter, Marielle, to Europe. Then
Mina asked me to contribute to a documentary about Covid and the arts so
I had the chance to tell the personal story of Elliot Park and George Floyd to
people in Europe. Tabatha </span><span style="font-family: arial;">made it all happen. She made a rock star out of</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> this scholarly, tone deaf, 65 year old
man. She had once worked as a stripper
and earlier last year I thought to myself "I'm 83 years old and my best
friend is a stripper. Maybe there is a God after all." If so, they're a capricious Deity indeed.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2020/12/1-three-things-i-accomplished-this-year.html?#Tabatha" target="_blank">This is a photo album</a> I made for the 15th anniversary of the day I met Tabatha.<br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2023/10/farewell.html" target="_blank">These are the words </a>I spoke at the Celebration of Tabatha's life.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><b>Syd Ginsberg</b></span>, my former mother-in law and the grandmother of my three children <a href="https://www.chathamnewsrecord.com/stories/sculptor-syd-ginsberg-to-show-work-in-siler-city,2231" target="_blank">was a sculptor.</a> She <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj5dylWZ6pPRMBWSGePlN1brHJtTeAteFMd6SCZt4YUnqRSzsyt_JzQXNXEMZLodY4l3Dy90ulzz9zsQ46Hze3zUhc8dae9C1XimTTc9yNkrgn5yUNqBD8QwQvkY1-JV77MUYfS2XHlI_GgoH1zAQomN7CDwWq3ovFWrji4G9ylsaVM1-dCD2sOI_j1N4/s340/SYDIAN.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="316" data-original-width="340" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj5dylWZ6pPRMBWSGePlN1brHJtTeAteFMd6SCZt4YUnqRSzsyt_JzQXNXEMZLodY4l3Dy90ulzz9zsQ46Hze3zUhc8dae9C1XimTTc9yNkrgn5yUNqBD8QwQvkY1-JV77MUYfS2XHlI_GgoH1zAQomN7CDwWq3ovFWrji4G9ylsaVM1-dCD2sOI_j1N4/w200-h186/SYDIAN.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>died at the age of 95. When her husband died she moved to San Miguel de Allende in Mexico where there's a large colony of American artists. There she designed her own house and set up her own studio and a sculpture garden to display her work..I stayed there when she invited me to San Miguel to do a poetry reading. <br /><br />She was always loving and supportive of me and I enjoyed time with her on her annual visits to see her grandchildren in Minneapolis. Recently she moved to North Carolina to be near her daughter, Jeanne. We all gathered the there in 2018 to celebrate her 90th birthday.<br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4ved4_61rHhatGMcHrBh3f7pMiEJ6xQRQgCcevipNy1ZRPnINraKj2jLwg0mPRXxm4qOSxN0c7vmQTd6tyFUp7XikcUeXdFm9nkrU2HDoSnqJctP6VAVv0ojRRgemfrS4X6Trtwyu-A8ahLQW4IQOJbvUtZvNUwykns9jtB5ATvrpZkKWJPf3l_r-3v0/s960/lennon.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="331" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4ved4_61rHhatGMcHrBh3f7pMiEJ6xQRQgCcevipNy1ZRPnINraKj2jLwg0mPRXxm4qOSxN0c7vmQTd6tyFUp7XikcUeXdFm9nkrU2HDoSnqJctP6VAVv0ojRRgemfrS4X6Trtwyu-A8ahLQW4IQOJbvUtZvNUwykns9jtB5ATvrpZkKWJPf3l_r-3v0/w442-h331/lennon.jpg" width="442" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">L to R Thomas English, Erica Shillock English, Lennon English, Sid Ginsberg, Stephanie Mitchell, Timothy Mitchell, Ian Shillock, Bret Shillock, Justin Shillock, Marielle Mitchell<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Cancer</b></span> has hit the family hard this year, My doctor is worried about </span><span style="font-family: arial;">some spots on my lungs</span><span style="font-family: arial;">. Most distressingly, my son Ian's cancer started growing again and his chemo has been increased to the point where it's followed</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> by 2 days of agony</span><span style="font-family: arial;">. That's every 3 weeks. He and his wife are incredibly brave.<br /><br />When I first heard Ian had Stage 4 cancer, I talked to other people who had lost their children: some at a very young age, some through suicide. My only consolation then was the knowledge that things could be worse. That's a troublesome feeling to have because it depends on the pain of others worse off than you. Now I can feel lucky to have 3 years </span><span style="font-family: arial;">I never counted on</span><span style="font-family: arial;">.</span><span style="font-family: arial;">with my son</span><span style="font-family: arial;">. </span><span style="font-family: arial;"> With Tabatha I feel lucky that I ever knew her. After all, I had worked with 2 singers before her and they both left to concentrate on their own careers. I had to agree that working with an anarchist poet was hardly a sure path to fortune and fame so I couldn't blame them. Tabatha was looking for a side project and just happened to see my ad for a singer and thought it looked interesting.<br /><br />The Second of the <a href="https://college.holycross.edu/projects/himalayan_cultures/2011_plans/jclossic/documents/The_Four_Noble_Truths.pdf " target="_blank">Four Noble Truths in Buddhism</a> states that attachment is the cause of suffering. Certainly my love for Tabatha makes her loss so painful. The problem is, it's these attachments that make my life worthwhile. And recovery from grief isn't much better . I cried for two days when Tabatha died. Now I only tear up occasionally. A fading memory is a bitter consolation.<br /> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Of course change is constant everywhere. I have two hangouts in my neighborhood, Elliot Park: one, the Gamut Gallery has new owners. The other, the Band Box Diner has finally reopened after Covid, but with reduced hours. My home, my neighborhood will never be the same.<br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Now my favorites.</span></b></span><span style="font-family: arial;"> <br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> </b></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Arts - <i><u>Marielle</u><br /></i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">I'm so proud of my granddaughter<span>. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/marielle.mitchell.1" target="_blank">Marielle Mitchell</a>, who got her Associates in Fine Arts Degree at Normandale College this Fall. </span><span><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaqtNsaw-QWT_MVlULT3HhEMDvm940HbiH6S9Tt8SED_fjpDaMwtK79rMxd9FsfPRg7DOkwb15F5UOleXJYmCX0aRX7NF_KwQsabv6rvek4zBY-0IcyxbzzNLfDX7uPflwurdOGGwPT9xTrB6EvzaTb0SKMkoFOYmX58nTJzZCl42qpIwRNTJazbKQwbI/s1694/Clipboard.jpg"><img border="0" data-original-height="617" data-original-width="1694" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaqtNsaw-QWT_MVlULT3HhEMDvm940HbiH6S9Tt8SED_fjpDaMwtK79rMxd9FsfPRg7DOkwb15F5UOleXJYmCX0aRX7NF_KwQsabv6rvek4zBY-0IcyxbzzNLfDX7uPflwurdOGGwPT9xTrB6EvzaTb0SKMkoFOYmX58nTJzZCl42qpIwRNTJazbKQwbI/w669-h244/Clipboard.jpg" width="669" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: small;">I
was able to help her connect with the arts.Gamut had an art fair in my
back yard where we had our portraits painted. In the summer we spent
a couple days in Chicago and went to the Art Institute. They had a special
exhibit on Seurat/Van Gogh, a connection I hadn't made before
(dots/daubs) </span></span></span><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Show -</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> <i><u>Hamilton</u></i></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMrgt4zX2QZwQc7roNIgKflZvUIsJAwI2gH8EI3nS9Ls6qbPH6RX0mWw2AZVj33r1QUdogOWhJY35er7zj7Kv6LShaNCTvW9fqHtYuV7JwU81dcY322t5FS0vkM2AbXpwl5Ar1-RQNCsf1W9AutzG73tqvzx1lgbLmbvjE21iKfS79Ffr4XhDywJWrcvk/s659/hamilton2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="469" data-original-width="659" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMrgt4zX2QZwQc7roNIgKflZvUIsJAwI2gH8EI3nS9Ls6qbPH6RX0mWw2AZVj33r1QUdogOWhJY35er7zj7Kv6LShaNCTvW9fqHtYuV7JwU81dcY322t5FS0vkM2AbXpwl5Ar1-RQNCsf1W9AutzG73tqvzx1lgbLmbvjE21iKfS79Ffr4XhDywJWrcvk/w365-h260/hamilton2.jpg" width="365" /></a></div>This is the second time I've attended this three hour explosion of sheer energy; but with this crowd, you know I enjoyed it even more than ever! L. to R. Stephanie Mitchell, Marielle Mitchell. me. Anne Shillock.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><br /></div><h4><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></h4><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Movie -</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> <i><u>Barbie</u></i></span></span></b><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLhBWZSqUFd8uOByVqgzbPNzPDd7TK-qcSQZLImnJeqmEIBxtbAdTxz0bgnTw58TO_heRj8C-c2mnTeaLGqP8l5wIvU4clTWeJ6RrAQEF5AFcnmbsit0rH8oGDqdDNKhqOlcJQ3z4dObDjkKTWmz-IsEpUKniJQOsan7T2uHylt6Lz9ZNQIE-9fy-nvAM/s475/barbie.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="447" data-original-width="475" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLhBWZSqUFd8uOByVqgzbPNzPDd7TK-qcSQZLImnJeqmEIBxtbAdTxz0bgnTw58TO_heRj8C-c2mnTeaLGqP8l5wIvU4clTWeJ6RrAQEF5AFcnmbsit0rH8oGDqdDNKhqOlcJQ3z4dObDjkKTWmz-IsEpUKniJQOsan7T2uHylt6Lz9ZNQIE-9fy-nvAM/s320/barbie.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">with Bradley Coleman Johnson<br /></td></tr></tbody></table>I got really cynical when I heard they were making a movie about Barbie. How dumb can you get? It sounded like something that would rival The Flying Nun or even My Mother the Car in cliched stupidity! So I was delighted to read they had taken a very clever approach: acknowledging that Barbie represents an idealized fantasy and sending her on a trip to a place named the Real World. I contacted a buddy to come along, in case I was attacked by gangs of estrogen crazed women. We were both blown away. Hollywood pulled out all the stops. The sets and the dance sequences were over the top; the parody of 2001 was hilarious and the satire was razor sharp. At the end it had </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3BRz1WP4WaRc4rbh1l5DZnhimIFSipRj_RgvsWO32nRv1nGfErxMWWvjV1HwZIP9P1UOXxnqC_a2L4-aPAbZNC7a2DMx2Xabsw-3LI2Emwg3YroxzROzyanIvUwvsd-T86XLW6E0sHAgVq0x12Fg_l726uyY-xe8lW6AANENc20TTJ3y48Z-sV6ZPKUI/s517/b%20&%20r.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="517" data-original-width="514" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3BRz1WP4WaRc4rbh1l5DZnhimIFSipRj_RgvsWO32nRv1nGfErxMWWvjV1HwZIP9P1UOXxnqC_a2L4-aPAbZNC7a2DMx2Xabsw-3LI2Emwg3YroxzROzyanIvUwvsd-T86XLW6E0sHAgVq0x12Fg_l726uyY-xe8lW6AANENc20TTJ3y48Z-sV6ZPKUI/w164-h165/b%20&%20r.jpg" width="164" /></a></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">deeply touching and profound things to say </span><span style="font-family: arial;">about men and women, life and death.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> It was one of the most imaginative movies I've ever seen; a perfect realization of what the Situationists called <a href="https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095713704" target="_blank"><i>detournement</i> </a>which is r</span><span style="font-family: arial;">epurposing
artistic tropes to subvert their original intent. (You've seen these
Batman/Robin memes all over.) Barbie is using Hollywood cliches to attack
the power culture that gave rise to them. By playing totally against expectations so well the whole genre is elevated.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><b> <br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Books</b></span> -<i>Some memoirs and such, of people I've met </i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Lucinda Williams - <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/617783/dont-tell-anybody-the-secrets-i-told-you-by-lucinda-williams/" target="_blank"><i><u>Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You</u></i></a></b></span><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/617783/dont-tell-anybody-the-secrets-i-told-you-by-lucinda-williams/" target="_blank"><br /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAC4uiRHP-9MUoSbVYQoauJ9fH9Gko0gNHIsGz_vO5_avHipy-Gje41C_woT_bmsSaHfKp46BgEd9siAfbB66osdSpmHjMWJI6R6OjfEbyNxspJlygBYlfVp5_I3JzJsq1e5PtACtNl-vER5JvROEOSPsK9LOOlZFretJ7apc-BUfnt1ph9RNFUBx5E1s/s500/Lucinda.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="331" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAC4uiRHP-9MUoSbVYQoauJ9fH9Gko0gNHIsGz_vO5_avHipy-Gje41C_woT_bmsSaHfKp46BgEd9siAfbB66osdSpmHjMWJI6R6OjfEbyNxspJlygBYlfVp5_I3JzJsq1e5PtACtNl-vER5JvROEOSPsK9LOOlZFretJ7apc-BUfnt1ph9RNFUBx5E1s/w112-h168/Lucinda.jpg" width="112" /></a></div>Even though she has a lot of Minneapolis connections - her husband, songs called <a href="https://youtu.be/Tjln7kT_wlM?si=y9pKG4tlqhikkjuR" target="_blank"><i>Hum's Liquor</i> </a>and <a href="https://youtu.be/3RtePjuxL7w?si=BAMyUvKacYnJUIOu" target="_blank"><i>Minneapolis</i></a>, - I've only spoken to her once. It was the first night I heard her, I happened to walk into the 7th Street Entry and got</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqs5IDiORWCmUSPDzavQjcrqhlAZat_3BN8vEQrYzipVbvREJVUNSMIRMslv1qYNsyPNcQbeDhN1Qc7IbWPLNDTa3DqBfnPwz5EV3x6omppFWr5O_noiu8opQCh82VyRmQMJLSsg5zapaUHFa655m5jjBJDxNW11foxlv3fir4b-HHgsyWjTHDuQIxoxY/s360/lisa%20jon.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="360" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqs5IDiORWCmUSPDzavQjcrqhlAZat_3BN8vEQrYzipVbvREJVUNSMIRMslv1qYNsyPNcQbeDhN1Qc7IbWPLNDTa3DqBfnPwz5EV3x6omppFWr5O_noiu8opQCh82VyRmQMJLSsg5zapaUHFa655m5jjBJDxNW11foxlv3fir4b-HHgsyWjTHDuQIxoxY/w233-h233/lisa%20jon.jpg" width="233" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">with Lisa Kennedy & Jon Bradley<br /></td></tr></tbody></table></span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">hooked right away. At the end of her set she announced she'd be hanging out at the Times Bar down the street. I headed over there later and the place was so full they weren't letting anyone else in the front door. I walked around to the back and came in through the kitchen; Lucinda had a crowd around her but I managed to get her to sign some comps I'd picked up for her next show. This year I took this book for her to sign when Lisa Kennedy and I saw her at the Dakota. However Lucinda is still recovering from a stroke. Her songs sounded great but her husband had to help her onstage and </span><span style="font-family: arial;"> the staff said she wasn't hanging out afterwards.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> <br /> <br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I enjoyed this book more than Patti Smith's National Book Award winner, <a href="https://www.librarything.com/work/2146750/book/122084766" target="_blank">Just Kids</a>. Lucinda had to struggle harder and she tells a grittier, more dramatic story. She's the daughter of poet <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/miller-williams" target="_blank">Miller Williams</a> and freely incorporates poetic devices into country-western. My favorite song is <a href="https://www.streetdirectory.com/lyricadvisor/song/pjoole/change_the_locks/" target="_blank"><i>Changed the Locks on my Door</i></a> where she completely dismantles the verse-chorus structure of traditional song then puts it back together so that it delivers a punch.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Lynette Reini-Grandell - <i><a href="https://shop.mnhs.org/products/wild-things" target="_blank">Wild Things: A Trans-Glam-Punk-Rock Love Story </a></i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Ns7srip7IXCVfPSQCotuOz6gIgTG9scRdPoUis3DAlt-KhIR6Ce0qJUGLTnCdM6DAam-_9cOd0uuE1NrbvQDsOZ7MYBbD2O5ucCQhwQQhTTvMeMNB2v1rZ8z-c5Tf3y2qOqc_t_za8OYH5sJQH7bq3d8cAtjxBDmN-M_k469I59II64UuBfrTa0R3NQ/s500/168134243X.01._SX360_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="333" height="172" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Ns7srip7IXCVfPSQCotuOz6gIgTG9scRdPoUis3DAlt-KhIR6Ce0qJUGLTnCdM6DAam-_9cOd0uuE1NrbvQDsOZ7MYBbD2O5ucCQhwQQhTTvMeMNB2v1rZ8z-c5Tf3y2qOqc_t_za8OYH5sJQH7bq3d8cAtjxBDmN-M_k469I59II64UuBfrTa0R3NQ/w114-h172/168134243X.01._SX360_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="114" /></a></div>Lynette has been one of the biggest supporters of my work. She had me on her radio show: she's a poet and she and her spouse, Venus, have read at my shows; she's played the violin at my readings; she recorded on my CD and at the release, she read, played the violin, danced with me, and Venus lent me her fog machine! </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Wild Things is the story of the rock and roll spouse, unrolling conflicts between attention to the significant other and loyalty to the band that were complicated by Venus' gender transition during that period. She writes about the need for personal validation, a concept which got me to thinking about how we need it and where we get it. For me, a lot of it came from books, then Tabatha and now, my family..</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Heidi Arneson - <i><u>Work in progress</u></i></b></span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnNaCQwpbVnLClS9_4e9KNsWc3zIgMc2PTdowWE4Z3D3TiwZvfvtG5qLh2HdI9QWMi02vrdZNsbXYl1sHlXsTONHqIZEFvhZNcDC7rT-J-agiwzc0Ba5RQQQI79obGJbIP6U2q-dcbhWd0AyDqzJlbv_7D8CKbC0cN5fIe_IdiadhuEO8Hz_7AO1VXAqM/s193/heidi.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="193" data-original-width="150" height="138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnNaCQwpbVnLClS9_4e9KNsWc3zIgMc2PTdowWE4Z3D3TiwZvfvtG5qLh2HdI9QWMi02vrdZNsbXYl1sHlXsTONHqIZEFvhZNcDC7rT-J-agiwzc0Ba5RQQQI79obGJbIP6U2q-dcbhWd0AyDqzJlbv_7D8CKbC0cN5fIe_IdiadhuEO8Hz_7AO1VXAqM/w107-h138/heidi.jpg" width="107" /></a></div>Heidi is brimming with genius in so many different fields - a sort of Babe Ruth or Shohei Ohtani of the arts. I first knew her from quirky performance pieces that left you laughing or crying - while her deadpan delivery made you scratch your head to wonder why. She also paints and creates claymation videos. Check <a href="https://youtu.be/55PQsdU-T6E?si=u-XAoiqycRBC4nod" target="_blank">this one out </a>and for all things Heidi, <a href="https://heidiarneson.com/" target="_blank">see here</a>. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3AHeidi+Arneson&s=relevancerank&text=Heidi+Arneson&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1" target="_blank">Her two books</a> certainly aren't memoirs or autobiographical; in fact they bring in elements of magical realism to tell the coming-of-age story of Cat McCloud who lives in a small town and comes from a large family with a creepy uncle<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">Her next book is about Shelly who runs a B&B in her house which borders a University and a large hospital. I have had the honor and pleasure of listening to Heidi read it to me over the last several months as part of her editing process. So far it's both more macabre and more whimsical than her previous work, also bawdier. Imagine Gabriel Garcia Marquez, <a href="https://alicehoffman.com/" target="_blank">Alice Hoffman</a> and <a href="https://www.librarything.com/work/57933/book/98704513" target="_blank">Natsuo Kirino</a> boarding with the Addams Family. Genteel mayhem ensues.<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Politics</span></span></b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">I used to believe in human progress and now another war has broken out on the ancient geopolitical fault line between Europe and Asia.The most intelligent thing I've read is by someone I know who works as a psychiatrist in an inner city county hospital.<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">" I continue to be crushingly disappointed in the ability of most people to consider nuance and question our socie</span>ty’s tendency toward binaries. It is possible to stand with Palestinian liberation and condemn the absolutely horrendous disregard for human life demonstrated by Hamas, acknowledging that the heinous actions of the past several days have not only robbed innocent people of their lives but will now lead to more civilian bloodshed on both sides. It is possible to condemn the IDF’s disregard for human life when considering the massive Palestinian civilian death toll over the past few decades (which will increase tremendously with the upcoming siege of Gaza) and condemn the staggering whataboutism regarding the value of Jewish lives, no doubt perpetuated by antisemitism that lives on a cellular level in many. It is possible to wonder about the origins of Hamas — an organization initially funded by Israel as a counterpoint to Fatah — and acknowledge the existential struggle of the Jewish people that exists far outside the metaphorical borders of the Israeli-Palestine conflict. I can go on and on.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><i>In considering all of the above and much more, I’m left with a yet more crushing disappointment that this is a catch-22 for all involved, and there is no immediately obvious scenario without a massive loss of life. Dark times.</i>" <a href="http://www.danielvolovets.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Volovets</a><br /><br />Oddly enough I've come to the same conclusion as Daniel - except thru hatred rather reasoned nuance. As an old anarchist I despise all nations; Palestine as much as Israel. Daniel is a better man than I am.<br /><br /><br /></span></div>TCBardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16273465648624108537noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706154894683712524.post-63318912247831905612023-10-04T14:02:00.411-07:002023-12-20T15:48:41.194-08:00Farewell<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9vOsiQzcvJ9En_qbdSsm3BCAhtixguIjcksYfUc3aHqS7z1JYlXLafzenFzSq0237V7llkd6Y72r2DcY52g6I91-2eyA27uo6hZYPQgdiLZU37QS2QvmflgCeHeSzH_UY93hsqC-KRwau2c7SgPEmmDM4BK9DaGE-BFgQ08hkG3UQx6yuDupJKIEbBDg/s916/Cheops1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="916" data-original-width="722" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9vOsiQzcvJ9En_qbdSsm3BCAhtixguIjcksYfUc3aHqS7z1JYlXLafzenFzSq0237V7llkd6Y72r2DcY52g6I91-2eyA27uo6hZYPQgdiLZU37QS2QvmflgCeHeSzH_UY93hsqC-KRwau2c7SgPEmmDM4BK9DaGE-BFgQ08hkG3UQx6yuDupJKIEbBDg/s320/Cheops1.jpg" width="252" /></a></div><br /></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>On 11/12/23 Tabatha's husband,Rich, held a celebration of her life.This is what I had to say, although I, like many of us that day, couldn't get thru our speech without breaking into tears.<br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I met Tabatha on the day I qualified for Social Security. She came to the Spy House coffee shop in answer to an ad for a singer that I had placed in the City Pages (That's how people communicated back in the Stone Age.) Five people responded. I wrote back about who I was and what I was looking for and only Tabatha followed up<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">It was the luckiest day of my life. The punk tradition was that 3 or 4 friends with no musical background would go into a garage and take the stage in a couple of weeks with their own unique sound. I wasn't going to audition a singer - because anyone could be in a band. It was sheer luck then, that I ended up with a classically trained vocalist like Tabatha who could articulate my lyrics so perfectly. And Rich played guitar and was a genius at music production.<br /> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Patti Smith w</span><span style="font-family: arial;">riting about Lou Reed </span><span style="font-family: arial;">said "I think my favorite moment with Lou was the last time I saw him. It was just about 10 days before he died and he was with his wife Laurie, and I could see that he was really not well. We spoke and as he was leaving he said 'I love you Patti' and I said 'I love you Lou.' I realized that might have been the first time we expressed that level of our feelings and friendship to each other." <br /><br />Fortunately I didn't make Tabatha wait until the last minute to let her know how I felt. One morning about 6 years ago I was having breakfast with her and her mother at Tao on Hennepin Ave . It was a period when I was recovering from chemo for lung cancer and Tabatha was dealing with mouth cancer. And when we were leaving I turned and said - t</span><span style="font-family: arial;">otally out of the blue -</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> "I love you, Tabatha." I surprised myself. I've said that before to others but only after thinking long and hard and being never quite sure. At that moment it just seemed like those were the only words to say. And Tabatha, surely channeling her inner Patti Smith. answered quiet calmly, "And I love you, Chris."</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVKrVffxL42Wcqb2UMJq0X8-pnrDIHwiQHpW4DS816ZL9fyE-JP1ZwjvoLyNutONe9Z6fbWOEcTftCUtFqOKWE_CLfXY-waIAycu_34BZBtJIIfQAQaiQnlTYLz2hMCeHaIg9jFx7i64iYow6403B2aPiv-rUKdzuQbBeIfeZYGfrZVV5DNpX-VytGzMw/s329/Last%20Word2.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="176" data-original-width="329" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVKrVffxL42Wcqb2UMJq0X8-pnrDIHwiQHpW4DS816ZL9fyE-JP1ZwjvoLyNutONe9Z6fbWOEcTftCUtFqOKWE_CLfXY-waIAycu_34BZBtJIIfQAQaiQnlTYLz2hMCeHaIg9jFx7i64iYow6403B2aPiv-rUKdzuQbBeIfeZYGfrZVV5DNpX-VytGzMw/s320/Last%20Word2.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">And really she loved all living creatures, animal and humans - even the difficult ones. When I lost my home, she helped me move and then came back to my new lodgings to sanitize them. (They were a real dump!) She visited in the hospital while I was getting chemo. She was a help to anyone who needed it, people with medical problems. people with emotional problems, stray dogs and even one bookish, tone deaf, 65 year old man on Social Security with illusions of becoming a rock star. I loved Tabatha more than I've ever loved anyone outside my immediate family. And "Love" was the last word she ever said to me, five days before she died,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Looking thru her pages online, I realize she took pictures with all her friends. She lent her beauty and warmth and magic to all of us and always made us all look good. She treated us all like rock stars.<span style="font-size: xx-small;">(1)</span> Someone who only knew me from Facebook referred to her as my girlfriend. I said that no, she was more; she was my voice and my inspiration. That voice is silent now, (although we do have a couple tapes in the can) but I think her inspiration will stay with me always. <br /><br />I'll end with a quote from Jack Kerouac: “I hope it is true that a person can die and yet not only live in others but give them life.” ― Tabatha was a militant vegetarian <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(2)</span> and for years now I've tried to go meatless one day a week in her honor. Now I'll try harder.<br /><br /><b>Tabatha Predovich. Live like her! </b></span><b><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(1)</span> Her business was called <a href="https://www.rockstardogwalking.com/" target="_blank">Rock Star Dog Walkers</a> and their motto was "We treat your pet like a rock star." So I ad libbed "Then if she treated you like a dog you felt pretty good because she treated her dogs like rock stars".</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(2)</span> Once we were out for dinner at Milton's VVB. Someone asked about a pork dish on the menu and the waiter started up in his 'menu speak". "... braised and lightly coated with fine Italian herbs, </span><span style="font-family: arial;">etc etc</span><span style="font-family: arial;">... garnished with parsley plucked under a full moon </span><span style="font-family: arial;">by virgins </span><span style="font-family: arial;">of the Himalayas </span><span style="font-family: arial;"> blah, blah blah</span><span style="font-family: arial;">" when Tabatha interrupted "<i>And who murdered the pig</i>!" The poor waiter was completely crestfallen, getting dissed by such a beautiful woman. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">I understand p</span><span style="font-family: arial;">igs are actually very intelligent animals</span><span style="font-family: arial;">.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p>TCBardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16273465648624108537noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706154894683712524.post-79490022189412206032023-07-24T10:40:00.010-07:002023-07-24T21:20:41.812-07:0010 Minute Painting by daughtersandsuns<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQSBiZVb5JLxUb3xhapV3gr0PA_ZGzOlPOZYP0BgpqdzXN3cA080u4MTUk8G5pchBhb49yZ1-Cw64sWySdUonV0JHXpVCrhs3F05WlJHRrTnBzpZ4j40IIbWXVp5iCWVo6RICDWtDz9NPYLL8FHpSDp9IY6xveAiKJxmPYmBpeqLGLZ_URXR9fTOJvEo0/s462/mc3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="462" data-original-width="367" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQSBiZVb5JLxUb3xhapV3gr0PA_ZGzOlPOZYP0BgpqdzXN3cA080u4MTUk8G5pchBhb49yZ1-Cw64sWySdUonV0JHXpVCrhs3F05WlJHRrTnBzpZ4j40IIbWXVp5iCWVo6RICDWtDz9NPYLL8FHpSDp9IY6xveAiKJxmPYmBpeqLGLZ_URXR9fTOJvEo0/s320/mc3.jpg" width="254" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.gamutgallerympls.com/" target="_blank">Gamut. Gallery</a> has always been right out my backdoor. At the Handicraft Building we shared <a href="https://www.facebook.com/GamutGallery/photos/a.1070190169698081/1070190296364735/" target="_blank">a back alley</a>. Now it's a courtyard. I always came in the back door and never paid admission. </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto">A couple years ago I wanted to help them out so I went up to the front and asked to buy a ticket. </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/jadepatrick.mpls" target="_blank">Jade</a>, one of the owners. came running up and had them hand me back my money. She pulled out a bunch of blank membership cards from the desk, wrote in my name and under Expiration Date, wrote "Life."</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">So now <a href="https://www.facebook.com/marielle.mitchell.1" target="_blank">Marielle Mitchell </a>gets "grandfathered" into events. Here she is at Gamut's <a href="http://www.gamutgallerympls.com/2023/05/19/cheers-to-11-years/" target="_blank">11th Anniversary Celebration</a>. Gamut had Lisa from <a href="https://www.instagram.com/daughtersandsuns/" target="_blank">daughtersandsuns</a> doing 10 Minute paintings for the party and we got this one done. Marielle told me what kind of frame I should get.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh54PbF0dRA7MhIek8_Yj938IhNT0UpAsM5wuAyNrmumkxDdiitKP-gOtXp9e8z1KOp15fwBV3-8PDECCvWH8yY0lpYyUTPiR_IRqC95l0vmoVucAdwruglEnqieTO5Qg5pWekwwZuWQZ2TTUxRAOQQjaWFBxhyhbygEAxzkns3ps9eE425quqwnlnQunY/s807/Show2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="807" data-original-width="640" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh54PbF0dRA7MhIek8_Yj938IhNT0UpAsM5wuAyNrmumkxDdiitKP-gOtXp9e8z1KOp15fwBV3-8PDECCvWH8yY0lpYyUTPiR_IRqC95l0vmoVucAdwruglEnqieTO5Qg5pWekwwZuWQZ2TTUxRAOQQjaWFBxhyhbygEAxzkns3ps9eE425quqwnlnQunY/s320/Show2.jpg" width="254" /></a></div><p></p>TCBardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16273465648624108537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706154894683712524.post-49400619315774137252023-04-22T14:16:00.016-07:002023-07-01T13:23:22.858-07:00Candle by Nicholas Harper<div style="text-align: left;"><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkUqNCMMKyXIf87gDF96URerQXCOb7xLWB5FLM4s5tsPZAf9EHNCkZWEx-apH6HZ_FgYgrUkl1dWo8CYPpP3JMgObuqLTyu6Tv7RDsr03PNEouYLjDc5rnoVHD76HsdS9jq-1ZNfZJY5qXFUAflULpw-WlEWZEW5SwhGw_XWFfhOHpi5h-a4c15z0i/s420/nh2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="382" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkUqNCMMKyXIf87gDF96URerQXCOb7xLWB5FLM4s5tsPZAf9EHNCkZWEx-apH6HZ_FgYgrUkl1dWo8CYPpP3JMgObuqLTyu6Tv7RDsr03PNEouYLjDc5rnoVHD76HsdS9jq-1ZNfZJY5qXFUAflULpw-WlEWZEW5SwhGw_XWFfhOHpi5h-a4c15z0i/w364-h400/nh2.jpg" width="364" /></a><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.roguebuddha.com/Nicholas-Harper" target="_blank">Nicholas Harper </a>is the owner of the <a href="https://www.roguebuddha.com/" target="_blank">Rogue Buddha Gallery</a> in Northeast Minneapolis. We met when <a href="https://www.facebook.com/jenniferatetter" target="_blank">Jennifer Tetter </a>was hosting a series of poetry readings there. Nicholas is a dedicated and talented artist in his own right, specializing in spooky landscapes and weird women with long necks. He explains himself in the video.</p></div><div style="margin-left: 160px; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="310" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iRUbxlDRkGQ" width="373" youtube-src-id="iRUbxlDRkGQ"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p>Lately Nicholas has been teaching a monthly <a href="https://www.roguebuddha.com/paint" target="_blank">Rogue Open Paint Night</a> in oils. My granddaughter, Marielle, is going for a Fine Arts degree at Normandale so she and I and her friend, Brandon, made a night of it with dinner at <a href="https://mayslacksbar.com/" target="_blank">Mayslack</a>'s We all had fun although the first artist here ended up with something like a 5 year-old with finger paints would do. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy599KsXDwLvu6ruSx5oDRV6xbIymPXAr8SeOxUgilcvsjhzYpC6YFKEnDdkxxZ16f_0v51NxYUgwh56olTIx9QuWE8Y89GYTHDdAZzBKdwnodDe1RusAvVD9BIVzUFy0-vgJRggnpsVLxHZzsC-HYkczk80uaLLW0bJU00x-fUrhVttlKScnEO8GG/s687/3%20paint.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="565" data-original-width="687" height="526" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy599KsXDwLvu6ruSx5oDRV6xbIymPXAr8SeOxUgilcvsjhzYpC6YFKEnDdkxxZ16f_0v51NxYUgwh56olTIx9QuWE8Y89GYTHDdAZzBKdwnodDe1RusAvVD9BIVzUFy0-vgJRggnpsVLxHZzsC-HYkczk80uaLLW0bJU00x-fUrhVttlKScnEO8GG/w640-h526/3%20paint.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div>TCBardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16273465648624108537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706154894683712524.post-2031673876826163452023-03-18T13:21:00.009-07:002023-04-06T18:39:20.463-07:00My Father Was Right<div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I didn't believe him when he told me that, in Panama, t</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">he poor </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> were being manipulated by the national bourgeoisie. What did he know, a diplomat who'd lived over half his life in South America? I was a radical student at a private college in the United States. "</span></i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>National bourgeoisie" was my term, not his. He called them the "Five Families".<br /><br />He said his biggest worry was that the Marine Guards would open fire when they saw the flag getting destroyed.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i> Excerpt from <a href="https://americandiplomacy.web.unc.edu/1999/06/435/" target="_blank">americandiplomacy.web.unc.edu/1999/06/435/ </a>by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_S._Bridges" target="_blank">Peter Bridges</a><br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcIFyLKzpNSZZ9oMXyi1QzxyxDBUEQwKi6mPPRcLrjYpLBEU4hrh5G3_sLQ_HSuq6IVJQOPaFq19vZCJ7OqT6qE1mw34K3pq8Eu-sCDJSsFX_PxjoXV6h5Xe2u-7EvNvkArgBVGuzh-AC4hapZWAlhjzGqA6PD9Ba3VOGf6NWPMB-tfP6xh_Zu0w68/s779/Clipboard.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="651" data-original-width="779" height="534" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcIFyLKzpNSZZ9oMXyi1QzxyxDBUEQwKi6mPPRcLrjYpLBEU4hrh5G3_sLQ_HSuq6IVJQOPaFq19vZCJ7OqT6qE1mw34K3pq8Eu-sCDJSsFX_PxjoXV6h5Xe2u-7EvNvkArgBVGuzh-AC4hapZWAlhjzGqA6PD9Ba3VOGf6NWPMB-tfP6xh_Zu0w68/w640-h534/Clipboard.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div></span></div><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></p><p></p><p></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Castillero was a small
hunchbacked professor who was a fierce nationalist. Boyd, who owed his
surname to an Irish grandfather, had already been Foreign Minister
though still in his thirties. Our Ambassador, a career officer named
Julian Harrington, had looked on Boyd as a sort of protegé when the
latter was minister. Now, though, with the flag-raising business,
Harrington had ended the relationship. (Aquilino Boyd served in later
years as Panama’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, where a
number of American officials, including me, enjoyed decent relations
with him. Harrington had begun his career 37 years earlier as a clerk at
Malaga and was now gouty and aging.)</span><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The November Fourth
celebrations were to include a morning parade in the old quarter of
Panama City, which the President of the Republic, together with foreign
ambassadors, would review from the balcony of his palace. Neither Arias
nor Newell, nor the combined powers of our intelligence agencies, could
forecast just what Boyd and Castillero would do on the fourth, or
whether serious trouble would result. The day before, I told my boss I
would walk down to see the parade. He was planning a day in the Zone,
and did not demur. As I walked toward the palace I had the impression
that I was the only gringo in the crowd of darker skinned people. I
found a place on the sidewalk near the cathedral and was watching
Guardia Nacional units with a good band march by, when a well-dressed
woman came up to me and said in Spanish that I seemed to be a North
American. She told me quickly, quietly, that this was no place for me; I
should leave before there was trouble. I decided to take her advice,
and began walking back tow</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">ard the Tivoli Guest House. (Some time later I met the lady again, and we became friends; she was Panama’s first woman judge.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As I neared Fourth of
July Avenue, with the modern building of Panama’s National Assembly on
my right, I saw in front of me several groups of mainly dark-skinned,
barefoot boys from the nearby slums, a type known pejoratively as cocos
pelados or ‘peeled coconuts’ to well-to-do Panamanians. The cocos
pelados were throwing rocks at a line of Canal Zone police in gas masks
who were facing them along the avenue. Behind the boys, closer to me, a
group of six or eight lighter skinned, better dressed men was egging
them on: ‘Hurrah, boys, give it to the Yankee imperialists!’ My first
look at elemental Panama politics. The trouble was, I was on the wrong
side of the line. Eventually there came a lull and I made my way across
the street. A few minutes later I found a taxi to take me to the
Embassy. It was closed for the holiday, and the only people inside were a
Marine guard and our Deputy Chief of Mission, John Shillock. The DCM
had decided trouble was likely, and so had come down to the Embassy
rather than accompany Ambassador Harrington to the President’s palace.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I had just finished
telling Mr. Shillock what I had seen in town when, looking out the
window, we saw Aquilino Boyd walking along the sidewalk below. As usual
there was a Guardia Nacional car with two agents parked nearby—and now
we saw the car drive off. John Shillock, a veteran of 30 years in Latin
America, said ‘I think I know what’s going to happen now’, and he phoned
down to the Marine that we could expect some visitors outside and that
he should in any event keep the door locked and barred and stay at his
post.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Several minutes later a
group of 50 or 60 cocos pelados came walking up Avenida Balboa. They
walked across the Embassy lawn to our flagpole, pulled down our flag,
and tore it up, with appropriate shouts about Yankee imperialism. I had
expected to see Aquilino Boyd egg them on, but he kept a distance,
perhaps discomfited by seeing the deputy to his onetime friend the
Ambassador staring down at him. Eventually the barefoot patriots
departed, and so did Boyd. As I was helping John Shillock write a
reporting cable to the department, Paul Runnestrand in the Canal Zone
phoned with more news. A couple of hours earlier, Boyd and Castillero
had led an automobile caravan into the Zone, stopping every so often to
plant small Panamanian flags by the roadside and running into trouble at
every stop with the Zone police, who pulled up the flags. I was not
attracted by either side of this affair. Planting little flags in the
Canal Zone seemed childish; pulling down and tearing up our flag I
thought atrocious. But neither did I see much virtue in the Canal
Company’s insistence that only the American flag could fly in the
Zone—an insistence based on a provision in the Treaty of 1903 that the
United States should enjoy all the rights in the Canal Zone that we
would possess if we were sovereign there. The Panamanians of course said
that this meant we were not sovereign there.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This argument had gone
for over four decades, but now it grew sharper. There was no more stone
throwing after 4 November, but it appeared that every Panamanian without
exception backed Boyd’s and Castillero’s doings and agreed that
Panama’s flag must fly—along with ours, most agreed—in the Zone. Only a
dreamer could imagine that a time would come when only Panama’s flag
would fly there—when indeed there would be no more Canal Zone.</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The
next several months were a time of stiff relations between the two
republics, but my wife and I, who had rented a hillside apartment with a
view over the sea, found it easy to make friends in Panama. I wanted to
get to know a broad range of Panamanians, but the friendliest were
those from the upper classes, whose nationalism was coupled with a
strong desire that we would see them as our country’s best Panamanian
friends and allies. These people, known by the lower classes as
rabiblancos or white-tails, sent their children to study in colleges in
Texas and Louisiana; their wives went shopping in Miami; the men had
their annual checkups at the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans. Nor were
they averse to marrying off a child to an American. If chaos ever came
to the Isthmus, one could hope to get the family to the north through
this ‘Yanqui’ connection. I met a lot of such people, but I rejected
from the start the idea that these well-to-do Arosemenas and Arias were
the only Panamanians we should deal with—the only Panamanians whose
interests mattered. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></p>TCBardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16273465648624108537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706154894683712524.post-54796619350763832502023-02-28T04:57:00.007-08:002023-02-28T15:49:58.150-08:00Tree of Hearts. Embroidery by Michelle Cohen<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKQW4nVBP23DrKu_5iDV2JG8e2Lim2y4KmeIAhY3_LhGX2oX0s9cgmBaUNTzkD-Y-5QUSOPelPuOuKvxsKt7SbwPzaxyF4CGRIpcVXpjQ8BSSV9JPLboS-mQSTx8_k22aGYLdx4o09uzCLQX6iVKfWhLH4QVCbAMQnUcsptkiqwhmtxEMRYLt3scW2/s950/processed-1363963d-6d79-4569-aec4-d0307f8d0b05_vV9aTI0Z2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="950" data-original-width="950" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKQW4nVBP23DrKu_5iDV2JG8e2Lim2y4KmeIAhY3_LhGX2oX0s9cgmBaUNTzkD-Y-5QUSOPelPuOuKvxsKt7SbwPzaxyF4CGRIpcVXpjQ8BSSV9JPLboS-mQSTx8_k22aGYLdx4o09uzCLQX6iVKfWhLH4QVCbAMQnUcsptkiqwhmtxEMRYLt3scW2/w400-h400/processed-1363963d-6d79-4569-aec4-d0307f8d0b05_vV9aTI0Z2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>For my 83rd birthday <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ModernSteph" target="_blank">Stephanie Mitchell, </a>my daughter-in-law, gifted me this work by her friend, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MsFledermaus" target="_blank">Michelle Cohen</a>, aka Ms Fledermaus. Michelle's pieces display a fairy-like sensitivity - with a twist. She works in several media: ink, painting, jewelry, embroidery and yarn - the latter of which Stephanie herself is well practiced in. </p><p></p><p style="text-align: right;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://msfledermaus.com/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="478" data-original-width="364" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQMk5Eeu9CgxHqxJW6UMA6CTCWuC2L_MqsXV17DTy5CtieNfGZUcbo2rG9Ur0r9J1ly1JeBGwEYlUrpp756ZXbS1bnttBbysDhApmCziHX2r7f3w92S6Wm93cNhtEFXk_lNZHnfv-cx_LCHpXEeYjtWaeypgRqagqgRBSEwbiPlmcLPx64CQ0Lls4d/w153-h200/bat%203.jpg" width="153" /> <span style="color: #fce5cd;"> </span> </a> <br /></div><br /><p></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://msfledermaus.com/" target="_blank"><b>Check out Ms Fledermaus's art</b></a> </span></span> <br /><br /></p>TCBardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16273465648624108537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706154894683712524.post-23442673329739078962023-01-02T15:58:00.222-08:002023-04-18T17:18:02.216-07:00Another Year in My Life - 2022<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This year everything was </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">different. <a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/10/time-for-left-to-get-their-act-together.html" target="_blank">I urged Americans to vote</a> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">as the United States stepped back from the brink of Fascism -</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> while Russia plunged right in. I have trouble concentrating and I've only read a couple dozen books this year. Serials on Netflix or Amazon don't grab me any more; mostly they wander off into episodes that just serve to prolong
the season. (I must confess to the guilty pleasure of <a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/81037371" target="_blank">Emily</a>; I pretty much ignore the plot and just bask in the shots of familiar places around Paris.) The Twins and the Mets seriously disappointed after promising starts. The Vikings, after dubious starts, exceeded expectations.<br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">On the positive side, things are opening up and, carpooling with my friend <a href="https://www.facebook.com/alexandra.salamandra.3" target="_blank">Alexandra</a>, I've seen lots of shows. There's so much talent and arts everywhere you look in the Twin Cities. How many times have you driven through deserted streets in the dead of winter to some basement or dive bar where a handful of people were watching a performance you'd pay $50 or more to see in New York City? Over the years I've attended an avant-garde play in someone's garage (afterwards, hot dogs on the grill</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> in the back yard</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">), seen a rock band in a hair salon, <a href="https://vannixonmusic.com/" target="_blank">Van Nixon</a> in the parlor, a play in a swimming pool, ballet in the parking lot of a brewery, a dramatization of Donald Barthelme (!!!) at a vintner, puppetry at the <a href="https://www.houseofballs.com/" target="_blank">House of Balls</a> and countless events at loading docks and a <a href="https://www.bryantlakebowl.com/theater" target="_blank">Bowling Alley</a>. </span></span>
</p><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span>My Favorite Discovery</span></span></span></span></span></b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span><b> </b> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Originalist" target="_blank"><i><span>The Originalist</span></i></a></span></b> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://openwindowtheatre.org/" target="_blank">OPEN WINDOW THEATRE </a></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://youtu.be/Ghk5uDesXKc" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVHxEDzT_Tg0SFzpL5x6LJXv1hK_83D46HG5AO2hBM3F18HP6ruOVcVhLLHpFR_qmNcMPNQSvOdnKmk2rXBjbpCeKWJtvmBpuW7_iIgeqF5kLucwZbL1XpyCjZIs1Oz5BOe1dgc3_OhNh1IAy4g870wyQ6VtR2rHlAg8NVQeSmlQdJ2buHApOwoNG7/w339-h219/Clipboard01.jpg" width="340" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto">One night
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/edward.p.jirak" target="_blank">Ed Jirak</a> and I drove out to </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto">Inver Grove Heights </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> to a theater nestled between a <a href="https://nowherehauntedhouse.com/" target="_blank">Haunted House </a>and a dance school in a tiny strip mall, to attend a
production by a group dedicated to "telling redemptive stories of faith,
hope, and reconciliation." We saw a moving drama about fairly dry legal
subjects. It starred James Ramlett who grabs the audience's attention from the minute he steps on stage.</span><span><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto">Thanks to </span></span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Hmail/posts/pfbid02tb5tnGPE6tQWUrHyHz1N8SMFKvSMnNRBoUdv1YvUX6F5hWXXvBpkKu2d9AnpMv2jl" target="_blank">Hamil Griffin-Cassidy</a> for turning us on.<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span>My Favorite New Soloist </span></span></span></span></span></b><span><span><span><b> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/dvolovets/" target="_blank"> </a></b></span></span></span><b><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/dvolovets/" target="_blank">Daniel Volovets </a> </span></span></span></i></span></b><b><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></i></span></b><a href="https://www.lakewoodcemetery.org/event/music-in-the-chapel-daniel-volovets/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>LAKEWOOD CEMETERY</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></span></div> <b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.tpt.org/hippocrates-cafe-reflections-on-the-pandemic/video/volovets-a-meadow-by-the-sea-and-nahums-portraits-38004/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="80" data-original-width="67" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIGBQIK2-sAQowpxOX56dAPYaNppNV0-Cs2UYWRnRHlZqDXVTphVnhFiJJbnc-8pqraQeKKnzMpLvfPpMlsW3keU4VIf_al6eUcn3VGqO_77gz7CzHcdvVqwVYCHMieUFLU9oZNKVMpq5D-3EqHtTu8EWmhOBaYvr3UtR-fIvTq5Efmg11JaXOa-T8/s592/Clipboard01.jpg" width="340" /></a></span></span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I first caught Daniel</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> one afternoon</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> at the Gamut Gallery</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">: masterful renditions of flamenco, Brazilian jazz, classical and his own compositions. I </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">was </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">amazed to learn he's also doing a residency in psychiatric medicine at Hennepin County Hospital - as if that wouldn't be enough work these days</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
( I've had 4 confrontations with crazy people </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">downtown</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> lately.) He
also played in the Minnesota Opera production of Carmen and I just
found out he's publishing his guitar tabs and writing a novel! </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span><span><span> <br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span><span><span>My Favorite New Singer</span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span> </span> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span><b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/torismusic" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-size: small;">Tori Evans</span></i></a> </b> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">TWIN CITIES PRIDE FESTIVAL<br /></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QO1MsU_k_M" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsxOSpSNSDRZmIguSrwet1yBePCKLtkBYv0JmwsOkQ6ElrfMsGQ18f5KKBsDfjJSQmAWCZyjzHX1EVauII2qHizh77BrIpp6jzHrwCrqvW1EoIWVfC9gjwoDCuBViuoDfJy05AF1vUGj5c-2PeeyfEbPmZHcPvYtlCLcUJYL7Fa0L4cX8m3i8POF0f/s1600/Tori.jpg" width="340" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Tori Evans is currently a Junior at <a href="https://college.berklee.edu/" target="_blank">Berklee College of Music</a>. In a couple years, with those looks, that voice, the band and a solid gold education</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">, she's going to go far.<br /></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span>My Favorite New Band </span></span></span></span></span></b><span><span><span><b> </b></span></span></span><b><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/theaprilfoolsmn/" target="_blank">The April Fools</a> </span></span></span></i></span></b><b><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></i></span></b><a href="https://www.icehousempls.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>ICEHOUSE</span></span></span></span></a><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YdsKpq1boQ" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="80" data-original-width="67" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKYG1Iu3MM6RMaT6vWEvoy4D0RpVqe0X6bf_r0trqsbXJZ7R9i9JwviY8B0LWv3BX5Kl0LtWEeKMbJyvdwV3Pey5WZOauBrKGIhiLFo4xNmwau2ZR3e2SjU5anHg5efFDKajoQ2g1uiQT8Dio56-WoAW-4jxYv-BQB5Bcz_n2qH45yOmVwkqnQSik-/s320/APRIL.jpg" width="340" /></a></span></span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">There's some great new bands in town - or at least new to me. I love <a href="https://www.facebook.com/LittleManMusic/" target="_blank">Little Man</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/LolosGhost/" target="_blank">Lolo's Ghost</a>, <a href="https://themuatas.com/" target="_blank">The Muatas</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CindyLawsonSongs/" target="_blank">Cindy Lawson,</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/tragichandsmpls/" target="_blank">Tragic Hands</a> and especially <a href="https://www.annieandthebangbang.com/" target="_blank">Annie and the Bang Bang</a>.
My favorites though are a multi-talented, all-star, cowpunk group called
The April Fools. Their latest album, Wonderland got a great <a href="http://turnstyledjunkpiled.com/2022/04/01/the-april-fools-wonderland/" target="_blank">review in T.J. Music</a> and you can <a href="https://blackberrywayrecords.com/album/2079923/wonderland" target="_blank">listen to it here</a>. </span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span><a id="Dumpster">My Favorite Old Band that's Still Got it</a></span></span></span></span></span></b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span><b> </b> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/DumpsterJuicempls" target="_blank"><i><b><span style="font-size: small;">Dumpster Juice</span></b></i></a><i><b><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></b></i><span style="font-size: small;">PALMERS</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Rich.Mathias13/videos/1230916834155732" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTFF97yCtaI3PmGMbevGnNcjo7_XzrcXoIvdskGJiq1fiwxta3eJjJ12T2M-f7PcQetjIyy0eMTDlizj3MuxXCq7PXyOTVT6HqAxvPdIou8-s5cKFhv1bbB5lSNFqUhfSYM7ivlbuNlBPQfVavxt5H4dX2FOwTZIurVhrMqjC4XzdSnN9K2ZUY8u6T/w368-h237/Clipboard01.jpg" width="368" /></a></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">These new bands play great music but I wouldn't describe any as being loud, drunk or obnoxious. Honestly, they hardly sweat, let alone visit the audience with obscene gestures or </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">gross </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">fluids. When Dumpster Juice played at <a href="https://www.palmersbar.net/calendar/2022/9/23/impaler-dumpster-juice-and-the-silent-treatment" target="_blank">Palmer's</a>, some kids got up and started slam dancing!</span></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">So sweet! Could have cried! Thanks Todd - drums, Rowland - vocals, </span></span><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;">Steve - Bass, Kevin - Guitar!</span></span><br /><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" dir="auto"></span><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" dir="auto"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span> <b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span>My Favorite International Band </span></span></span></span></span></b><span><span><span><b> <span style="font-family: arial;"> (A tie)</span></b></span></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjK03o3TS5fmJ9RtaWlDpkT8d9ygkhEp_l2V6ImlO06DhEjDg9emBbzPKTHyP1P96LlhsuSdcFTR68KUC7nG4iFGxQ7i4LOpt_vV7wnimbuFd3-lm8n8rzVIP1gHZ-5r9rJoTLEUY41AeIhuT7J3zofKDus3_povd5WJlslOmOyBSsTX4weWq4pJiz/s941/Kraft2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="387" data-original-width="941" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjK03o3TS5fmJ9RtaWlDpkT8d9ygkhEp_l2V6ImlO06DhEjDg9emBbzPKTHyP1P96LlhsuSdcFTR68KUC7nG4iFGxQ7i4LOpt_vV7wnimbuFd3-lm8n8rzVIP1gHZ-5r9rJoTLEUY41AeIhuT7J3zofKDus3_povd5WJlslOmOyBSsTX4weWq4pJiz/w640-h264/Kraft2.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: arial;">L to R: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ModernSteph" target="_blank">Stephanie Mitchell</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/marielle.mitchell.1" target="_blank">Marielle Mitchell</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/eyebeam668" target="_blank">Ian Shillock</a>, Chris Shillock, Sarah Erickson. </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>The 3D Tour </b></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Photo by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/tatiana.allen.378" target="_blank">Tatiana Allen</a><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span><span><span><b> </b></span></span></span><b><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><a href="https://kraftwerk.com/" target="_blank">Kraftwerk</a> </span></span></span></i></span></b><b><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></i></span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>ST</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://youtu.be/L4hGaV5BA2M" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="80" data-original-width="67" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSUK2l37zTcAiqeQ1gMwH-Rs88BbDyoXSMG8Qc6VXer8VhBLUIIgRFOBLDxfyrIwUuDwwYloeQLc-ofrpJ7F_LyIzLOv6M1FILRccRbRPwG6FhhY1l6NlGuATRcMQxF10BxEnd0EZjCklhywzZthn7XMGSCmo7eZ41owLCRUw-LXPvXV7M-dCx3mFi/s320/Kraft.jpg" width="340" /></a></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">ATE THEATRE</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> Electro-Kraut Rock <b>The 3D Tour</b><br /></span></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p></p><p><span><span><span><b> </b></span></span></span><b><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><a href="https://www.dakhabrakha.com.ua/" target="_blank">Dakha Brakha</a> </span></span></span></i></span></b><b><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></i></span></b><a href="https://www.dakotacooks.com/"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">THE DAKOTA</span></span></a><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a5ktK5xTkY" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="80" data-original-width="67" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAjbFFqvbn4fZx-m9m07aouebhNqb3xK8c2y0VJ4eCOvjL-USPKRYydrkvd1ivwHmIZ4sX-DSK2_Uk38vjEE4fuMA5m7Mk_Dq5eBrB18zeXAZ7I0CXxB93skQVHZth8pkZ8KSXUHaFqHD0J16-o3D0VumlWJY1XLrkCtQXIdrRTMBTBHB8Xphdsz5C/s320/DKHA.jpg" width="340" /></a></span></span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Ukranian Folk Punk. Special Thanks to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lowell.pickett.3" target="_blank">Lowell Pickett</a> for bringing this group to the Dakota</span></span><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span><a id="Vibe"> My Favorite</a> Vibe</span></span></span></span></span></b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span><b> </b> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span> <a href="https://www.orvillepeck.com/" target="_blank"><i><b><span style="font-size: small;">Orville Peck </span></b></i></a> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;">1ST AVE</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://youtu.be/1VoHzlALxp0" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHt1MSKr9LDWYeMJ0wvpgHlDf1z9Ne3t4tQR20eYLpdXjXnVeGooxyxuLNa4RMJEultiTPbPlMZWRMSZ1Uxu4WlZL7qZRya2XJf9Ts0Sr2vTxeeLaAw6tCt4Yj9K6O6mx0x-Q15iWTu6MTYIwYnfpQGHUNyykcCUkB_hEhyc0634miMmIx9gcw92ZC/w337-h218/peck.jpg" width="337" /></a></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJyuA0GAqjDPQPBQicH31_kR_O-lziV9_o2ZxthMDRWB792QvK051zwQpP5pqV_vEjhzRvBIlY5FeFBecdrpWmRkVFPJazA0ixkKo147NH1spTlA0NrXrO5wtWv0wpFU7OYYUiVgRE9vbvCR7bjQN-YcdSk9BQGnBUxWxR7vDNZtrDDKHlvyB3CP7q/s636/orvill.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJyuA0GAqjDPQPBQicH31_kR_O-lziV9_o2ZxthMDRWB792QvK051zwQpP5pqV_vEjhzRvBIlY5FeFBecdrpWmRkVFPJazA0ixkKo147NH1spTlA0NrXrO5wtWv0wpFU7OYYUiVgRE9vbvCR7bjQN-YcdSk9BQGnBUxWxR7vDNZtrDDKHlvyB3CP7q/w235-h199/orvill.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p> Two
weeks after the Supreme Court struck down the right to abortion, this
gay cowboy sold out 2 nights in the Main Room. It felt like a
proclamation that, yes!!! there is still a real world here, a world of
people loving whom they will. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100011756974566">Pete, the bartender at 1st Avenue</a>, remembered us and greeted us with free drinks for old times sake. He took this picture of me with Sarah and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/cassandra.nelson.6">Cassandra</a> who originally turned me on to Orville Peck.</p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span>My Favorite Party <br /></span></span></span></b>Every year <a href="https://www.facebook.com/REBEL.NURSE" target="_blank">Anne </a>and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/walt.mayer.14" target="_blank">Walt</a> celebrate </span><span style="font-family: arial;">the Spring Equinox with a </span><span style="font-family: arial;">burning of </span><span style="font-family: arial;">the Xmas trees</span><span style="font-family: arial;">. After Christmas the neighbors give them their trees so by March the branches are dry as kindling. The trees catch fire with a big <i>Whoosh</i>! (Photos courtesy of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/alexandra.salamandra.3" target="_blank">Alexandra</a>) <br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzJexP8Uz6Bt65vPOuOaJ1kOokKjlLOD-W0qw8A4Iay5CD8_QVP7vh2-PsXeLR09i4bu4K2K2pCqkAbvndjiDsYiSAIHySJB-AY20kNoBOKE8Ssta2tljFvZiRJG69MmBEwxiJkeRLdpX98AV01A-zaPxfOj3qaDYlkqYAeGwM30aYi6szZypxMPvj/s1280/walt2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzJexP8Uz6Bt65vPOuOaJ1kOokKjlLOD-W0qw8A4Iay5CD8_QVP7vh2-PsXeLR09i4bu4K2K2pCqkAbvndjiDsYiSAIHySJB-AY20kNoBOKE8Ssta2tljFvZiRJG69MmBEwxiJkeRLdpX98AV01A-zaPxfOj3qaDYlkqYAeGwM30aYi6szZypxMPvj/s320/walt2.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYdf-6C1hSGm9u_vh7EZQmm5UJCZCNA_ZDGCtpvDROvNK1bdSQZFP8XYsR1Badsv06WPhMQam5d-gMWp80tVwiYVzATThimzAE2aWO6NxzJsbwEOLK-twI2aclHpWFPunw-JJfVkd4P_utrj5sEjDIFtVCR6cx4UTHmUvhMruQ5033MnKCX-0PjxIQ/s720/Walt%201.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="720" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYdf-6C1hSGm9u_vh7EZQmm5UJCZCNA_ZDGCtpvDROvNK1bdSQZFP8XYsR1Badsv06WPhMQam5d-gMWp80tVwiYVzATThimzAE2aWO6NxzJsbwEOLK-twI2aclHpWFPunw-JJfVkd4P_utrj5sEjDIFtVCR6cx4UTHmUvhMruQ5033MnKCX-0PjxIQ/w315-h235/Walt%201.jpg" width="315" /></a><p></p><p><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span> </span></span></span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span> <br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QO1MsU_k_M" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='301' height='250' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwFBA-ScKZN6CqwHJjfM-0hc3X5jpMBwKRmCzpE_ufSF5s_mG7wmVuxAt2JXZ6HPL99-XN0I9W_91a2KFY-Sw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This year <a href="https://www.facebook.com/dale.t.nelson" target="_blank">Dale T. Nelson </a>was there with a set of musicians. Dale is an icon of Minneapolis rock, both as a performer and a fan. He's a living breathing embodiment of</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> rock and roll</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> history</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">. (Dale's videos courtesy of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/rick.lawrence23" target="_blank">Rick Lawrence von Bitter</a>) </span></span><br /></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span> </span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span> </span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span> </span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span> </span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span> </span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span>My Favorite Art Show <span style="font-size: small;"><i>Art is for Everyone </i></span></span></span></span></b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://gamutgallerympls.com/" target="_blank">GAMUT GALLERY</a><br /></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span></span></span></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgToDkJevOh9Un14w1m65N6I3kVqzev5SnKNynPbOstFbol963cB9xF7m-i335WwuxX66F4mIYtwSQRZoncUw9uZy4C4TVpqBZwi_sEaTWc0hnEj0osYACX7OOQkzn8IZ3AR9QJ_Jt61oqF1SPwTqvWPbHl6SPXUlGjrEmG46fJ_DFyi-MTWDOC540r/s960/Gamut-10-Year-Banner-960x546.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="546" data-original-width="960" height="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgToDkJevOh9Un14w1m65N6I3kVqzev5SnKNynPbOstFbol963cB9xF7m-i335WwuxX66F4mIYtwSQRZoncUw9uZy4C4TVpqBZwi_sEaTWc0hnEj0osYACX7OOQkzn8IZ3AR9QJ_Jt61oqF1SPwTqvWPbHl6SPXUlGjrEmG46fJ_DFyi-MTWDOC540r/s320/Gamut-10-Year-Banner-960x546.png" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></b></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Imagine how thrilling it would be to have your art displayed in a gallery. Then imagine how much more thrilling it is to actually <u>be</u> on display! I was so thrilled I made up <a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/06/my-artworks-my-friends-and-family-list.html" target="_blank">a catalog of all the art I own</a>. <br /><br />For Gamut's 10th anniversary they featured 10 art collectors along with a work they had bought at Gamut. I didn't have to hang on the wall or even stand on a pedestal. Here's how it worked.<b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><br /></span></span></span></b></span><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/cassie.garner.mpls" target="_blank">Cassie</a> came over to take pictures in my apartment She chose this one</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgyu_X_STFhBpVwjiJVB3sXc8s6TwYMqocRudPTepFsIOwvsSqA0L-0mnTG5yIbxD5U-5ysEKrEzAw5e3Pw4y-3xLaLWa2lwif2wD7SyjSLZoMYSQcQjWL1jas6FPJirbdVYuWXW7q4hHltLpffJbQJSkwPUpSUcEbMzSQFQ-3V3_A8JuB5_FK6YEW/s288/Apartment.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="288" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgyu_X_STFhBpVwjiJVB3sXc8s6TwYMqocRudPTepFsIOwvsSqA0L-0mnTG5yIbxD5U-5ysEKrEzAw5e3Pw4y-3xLaLWa2lwif2wD7SyjSLZoMYSQcQjWL1jas6FPJirbdVYuWXW7q4hHltLpffJbQJSkwPUpSUcEbMzSQFQ-3V3_A8JuB5_FK6YEW/w289-h289/Apartment.jpg" width="289" /></a></span></span></span></b></span></div><p><a href="#" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmKqyYiVgCJCK4NhnGfRHz8hH8NfWeGQssOPlE5we-KPMBtqnlbf7QQHYFbvSUszafaC7rVL1P2PzTdDFftDj7LmRYMBJxd1nISFbHYwRHtoBm6kKFUat4kOaVXZhodnIGEDDCs7as76SFgVgwi3HjzGL9PBNaHNZRmAVSgFnfjk3ADhlaADXhYa_t/s1600/cassie.jpg" /></a></p></div></div></span></span></div></div><p><br /> </p><p><br /> </p><p><br /> </p><p><br /> </p><p><br /> </p><p><br /> </p><p><br /> </p><p><br /> </p><p><br /> </p><p><br /> </p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">They hung it on the wall beside my artwork My granddaughter Marielle came to the opening<br /> and my Favorite Soloist, Daniel Volovets, played</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgyu_X_STFhBpVwjiJVB3sXc8s6TwYMqocRudPTepFsIOwvsSqA0L-0mnTG5yIbxD5U-5ysEKrEzAw5e3Pw4y-3xLaLWa2lwif2wD7SyjSLZoMYSQcQjWL1jas6FPJirbdVYuWXW7q4hHltLpffJbQJSkwPUpSUcEbMzSQFQ-3V3_A8JuB5_FK6YEW/s288/Apartment.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="288" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKZmw-64aSHkUMdWhdBN6JVj5R8pj9C2m5TbZFvyIO72QFekSEZO_lXKceYA7lfBusQvfiyQP1F9l9vEiqzNoIOmVRdumUpV8LvFEJoKfm0KostwR37CYtP_ylZSIzMRGc_TPNvZadN-rMsA6tPxo8lW9ICEEbd7el4tQMHVc3hhl1tYkUvNgilrWp/w278-h229/289513123_5438139566236431_2900863567144018218_n.jpg" width="278" /></a></span></span></span></b></span></span></span><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="#" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX3jg9O4MXLDDTe4a4bIbuVnqGckrS63fo4r74JICJqtGE5McBp0xZ_TZhkbqNE8jgaue_gZ_edF2RC6frVJFlYAV-XagnqO3pMTgd8IyjcvQ5xehRHzgaSaUKOtUm_UEKy5pthWGzueulyukmdkCHm8NB1C_o6gCRBf5pmb8A_uMZ3dXOkQ9SrsVB/w299-h199/dan.jpg" width="299" /></a></span></span></p></div></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span>My Favorite Book - Fiction <span style="font-size: small;"><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Colony-Unrequited-Dreams-Novel/dp/0385495439/" target="_blank">The Newfoundland Trilogy</a> </i></span></span></span></span></span></span></b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Johnston_(writer)" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span><span style="font-size: small;">WAYNE JOHNSTON</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><i><br /></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMqeB-kxg5Y2f4c0DzR4aOI7IpzKWzsweALKpPw3wNjcmdShmBKyKNfUtYFrwN6mL8BU9R3awpYHpnXq9PzYHGcxsQffv_biG8bDSs0P1KmPymzCkuSFEQuAKAxRiJ6OEFNUjvYfLj8-6kzW8AL-3PJN9kgggCT9Sv9VpdTo3nEmOOWap0Jo4H6SKv/s544/Trilogy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="238" data-original-width="544" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMqeB-kxg5Y2f4c0DzR4aOI7IpzKWzsweALKpPw3wNjcmdShmBKyKNfUtYFrwN6mL8BU9R3awpYHpnXq9PzYHGcxsQffv_biG8bDSs0P1KmPymzCkuSFEQuAKAxRiJ6OEFNUjvYfLj8-6kzW8AL-3PJN9kgggCT9Sv9VpdTo3nEmOOWap0Jo4H6SKv/w400-h175/Trilogy.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></span></span></i></span></b></div><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In the summer of 2010 <a href="http://tcbard.blogspot.com/2011/07/may-27-2011-what-i-did-this-summer-2010.html">I spent 2 weeks in St John's, Newfoundland</a>, with a brief side trip to the French islands of St. Pierre & Miquelon. So when I read in the Times how to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/20/books/books-newfoundland-canada.html">Read Your Way Through Newfoundland</a>,
I started down the rabbit hole. The action in the trilogy is swift
the personalities are engaging and it gives you an idea what St. John's is
like. What is it like? Imagine Duluth as the capital of Texas, with lots of arts funding.</span></span><br /><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span>My Favorite Book - NonFiction </span></span></span></span></span></b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span> <span style="font-size: small;"> <a href="https://archive.org/details/historyofnewfoun00prowuoft/page/n5/mode/2up" target="_blank"><i><b>A History of Newfoundland</b></i></a></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://archive.org/details/historyofnewfoun00prowuoft/page/n5/mode/2up" target="_blank"> </a> </span> </b> <a href="http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/prowse_daniel_woodley_14E.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">DANIEL W PROWSE</span></a></span></span></span></span></span><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL9ZElG4hK0OlOiq_XzQh5q2TRPCtcofSvPB1XHS0VuceOTzwZdf-Mh8oYVDYDW73BOAYdPb8S9EOL465dLkkzHma6HrtrLya2y501HJFgKJgTvB37KrTp3mDL5XJDfIqBvmUBbZaYolIHx0_DhbHDNQ9zowrT2sUK2fN5FKOt9zWICbKZJcRmv6gV/s864/newf.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="864" data-original-width="750" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL9ZElG4hK0OlOiq_XzQh5q2TRPCtcofSvPB1XHS0VuceOTzwZdf-Mh8oYVDYDW73BOAYdPb8S9EOL465dLkkzHma6HrtrLya2y501HJFgKJgTvB37KrTp3mDL5XJDfIqBvmUBbZaYolIHx0_DhbHDNQ9zowrT2sUK2fN5FKOt9zWICbKZJcRmv6gV/s320/newf.JPG" width="278" /></a></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The
full title is A History of Newfoundland; from the English, Colonial,
and Foreign Records. You've heard big volumes described as doorstops.
Well, at 800+ pages, almost 5 pounds. A History of Newfoundland would
stop a charging rhino. In fact the book is something of an encyclopedia!
Each chapter is followed by the full text of the official documents
referred to: Acts of Parliament, treaties, deeds. etc. Historical events
are illustrated by personal anecdotes and footnotes crawl across several
pages. They don't publish them like that any more.</span></span></p></div><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Daniel
Prowse, the author, is a character in the first book of the Trilogy. Even the book plays a role. The father of the main character
reads it incessantly; he becomes so obsessed that he finally heaves it off his
back porch. The hero discovers it a year later and painstakingly dries
out the pages. </span></span><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><br /></span></span></span></p><p></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span>My Favorite Game <span style="font-size: small;"><i>Colts/Vikings</i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i></span></span></span></span></b>12/17/2022</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span> </span></span></span><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span><span><a href="https://twitter.com/KFAN1003/status/1604496179735117825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1604496179735117825%7Ctwgr%5Ee7cf7128b256b7fa2d44cabf455409c599083ade%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.si.com%2Ffannation%2Fbringmethesports%2Fvikings%2Fvikings-announcer-paul-allen-wows-again-in-epic-comeback-against-colts" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="356" data-original-width="634" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE39JMkBrcdWn23Pb1HLe5o5Wk0OTktuVnVvCeIfNjlaWBdKXc0b1EM_xgJvG2yUFp_rZW90XZlwLUIJ54GQlK3TjEGRgU2oAkR4dEz6_FTR8eFTFWlmXfLeOq0nP6p0kvy1CTPiQ3kqYcKQ4xicvNPUrq-CJ2-WMorJYe84sNZLv0cYnN8he9NCnW/s320/ColtsVikingsScore16x9-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></b><span style="font-size: small;">Historically the Vikings have gone into the playoffs with strong teams and All Stars like Fran Tarkenton, Randy Moss, and the Purple People Eaters. Their record is 0 for 4 in the Super Bowl. This year they ended up with an impressive 13 & 4 record including this miraculous 0 - 33 point comeback. Hume points out that miracles would be violations of the laws of Nature so an apparent miracle must have some naturalistic explanation. In this case the Vikings pulled off miracles against much weaker teams and got schlonged in their games against contenders.<br /></span></span></p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"> </p></span></span></span></span></span></b><p> <b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span>And the serious stuff </span></span></span></span></span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">When my mother was the age I am now, she got depressed seeing her friends die off. I knew I'd never have that problem because my friends were all much younger than me. Actually it didn't work out that way. Some of my friends were heavy drinkers or drug users who started to drop off years ago.<br /><br />Recently two other good friends have died: a man I went to college with and <a href="https://www.startribune.com/man-who-died-in-minneapolis-apartment-fire-was-noted-native-american-storyteller-stage-performer/600241322/" target="_blank">Kohl Miner</a> <span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto">at the age of 61</span><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto">, one of the most interesting and entertaining people I've ever hung out with.</span> Many others here whom I love, people younger that me, are dealing with serious medical issues. Most heartbreaking of all, my own children are fighting cancer and other life threatening diseases. The day after Christmas in 2020, I got a call from Ian's wife telling me he had been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. He's been fighting bravely ever since - chemo every 3 weeks. In the meanwhile my emphysema keeps getting worse and now I carry around an oxygen machine.<br /><br />This year we celebrated another Christmas with Ian, a Christmas we weren't sure we would ever see. The family all went to Christmas Carol at the Guthrie, another item checked off our Minnesota-Thing bucket list. Ever since covid, we have become used to living with unbearable loss, a habit that's both consoling and troubling - a consolation because now you know </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> you <i>can</i> live with it; </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">you <i>can</i> take it, troubling because no one ever wants to accept that as normal. You may not have the edge on death but sometimes you can keep it at bay - and live your life in the mean time.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">And life does go on, and even at it's most normal, it can be a marvel and a miracle. This is my great grandson, Lennon English, holding his sister, my great granddaughter, Kennedy Jane English . She was born prematurely in December 2022 and just came home from the hospital today.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz3y_OR8oWhhMao975bgDUjMF5XXejLzFat_KeUsZV6joQ1_MXb3SIq1VGHnBkNFLcaVvfl4SgSU-EchyTJQZ7eIAYauxW5lmtUqaRL5zI9H5voSHYoUt3c9G07uJgpj7XZl7ypPJ37OxfRgykAEJ344J0FyL2t51dZwDVAH3R8inBtfnizIL7YmKp/s2048/Lennom.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz3y_OR8oWhhMao975bgDUjMF5XXejLzFat_KeUsZV6joQ1_MXb3SIq1VGHnBkNFLcaVvfl4SgSU-EchyTJQZ7eIAYauxW5lmtUqaRL5zI9H5voSHYoUt3c9G07uJgpj7XZl7ypPJ37OxfRgykAEJ344J0FyL2t51dZwDVAH3R8inBtfnizIL7YmKp/w300-h400/Lennom.jpg" width="300" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /> <br /></span></span><p></p>TCBardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16273465648624108537noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706154894683712524.post-24862068176009235162022-11-24T17:04:00.016-08:002023-01-15T13:27:17.249-08:00DAZED: Black Daze / Monty Montgomery<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpOYiuZDwAiaHWweIyOdHGLXsuo6puls-POlId792ic04BEnmO8sQdJOAd5p8P5aorb3tAAX0PciB8xUxpPODDqNS1G7cVMVfpvBaFXxUAHdPVzcdAVgpzFtdsxMVnRDkZVxxJ6hceB8vAamHnVSy3mjL9U8JuKd5tDcv6OzLIL1BOR1EkQQQ9mUVs/s1188/BlackDaze.MontyMontgomery_1024x1024@2x.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1188" data-original-width="1176" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpOYiuZDwAiaHWweIyOdHGLXsuo6puls-POlId792ic04BEnmO8sQdJOAd5p8P5aorb3tAAX0PciB8xUxpPODDqNS1G7cVMVfpvBaFXxUAHdPVzcdAVgpzFtdsxMVnRDkZVxxJ6hceB8vAamHnVSy3mjL9U8JuKd5tDcv6OzLIL1BOR1EkQQQ9mUVs/w634-h640/BlackDaze.MontyMontgomery_1024x1024@2x.jpg" width="634" /></a></p><p><span style="font-size: 7;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><font size="5"><a href="https://blackdazeart.com/">Black Daze</a><span style="font-size: small;">'</span></font></span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">s iconic cat faces have been on display at <a href="http://www.gamutgallerympls.com/about/">Gamut Gallery</a> for years now. It's a face he exhibits in many media, all the way from outdoor murals to wall stickers. I've picked up a few of them at Gamut. In this painting, the cat face overlays Monty Montgomery's colorful geometric forms.</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 7;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyoNNxIcP7KP08AtphpXLkt9mfmGT30C9K4lw-o6pCDwrQAsWzjsYbdTfUrXFfonxZSVFd5RuE8AsglCd1IV4xFa1DVyKSevgyBuSBUSAYKRUhoOcy2ODQYozCZqWk5eisU7sQT8qAmyJwrisys5WXoZ0v0A0uVkdkO8mqUYiVUlaOc3_eWK_bWb16/s674/Clipboard01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="402" data-original-width="674" height="382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyoNNxIcP7KP08AtphpXLkt9mfmGT30C9K4lw-o6pCDwrQAsWzjsYbdTfUrXFfonxZSVFd5RuE8AsglCd1IV4xFa1DVyKSevgyBuSBUSAYKRUhoOcy2ODQYozCZqWk5eisU7sQT8qAmyJwrisys5WXoZ0v0A0uVkdkO8mqUYiVUlaOc3_eWK_bWb16/w640-h382/Clipboard01.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 7;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 7;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSd1PZ4mREXgQajLsGtCzcEWoqigLsZz-pdkgOdlesL2BFkp31mvmge954EQlvmByz9jMNYZcHHvl71WZZVsywwy5jcP_0EpOXM0nI4uHbK2ooT2VMSGIxS1HOa4TgwIpPqHeQaobV1PPaUAKS9GfpecqplV_iw6oz-XFFmjZen-GhSKzxYYCs0_Zo/s1009/Mural.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="671" data-original-width="1009" height="427" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSd1PZ4mREXgQajLsGtCzcEWoqigLsZz-pdkgOdlesL2BFkp31mvmge954EQlvmByz9jMNYZcHHvl71WZZVsywwy5jcP_0EpOXM0nI4uHbK2ooT2VMSGIxS1HOa4TgwIpPqHeQaobV1PPaUAKS9GfpecqplV_iw6oz-XFFmjZen-GhSKzxYYCs0_Zo/w640-h427/Mural.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 7;"><i><a href="https://www.instagram.com/blackdazeart/?hl=en"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><font>https://www.instagram.com/blackdazeart/?hl=en</font></span></span></a></i><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><font size="5"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></font></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 7;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><font size="5"> +OOO+OO+OO+OOO+<br /></font></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 7;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><font size="5"> </font></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 7;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><font size="5"></font></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 7;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><font size="5"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl9Amt7xogTUk_nkrayMR6i7Cu3PLDmfW4nDk0rBwdBjV_tDqNLW9LMe1M8uAdxXpF1xemQX-Xu6nPXcfJEtoLqbHD2KoFgfAu7oB3Evvyi79PVKwZITLrxnLWNUJmf3s0V752gIfbBlL1CUtx1-QCMqElEOWWW6PHHC2Xq_KQIAIvzFa6UZ_hV04J/s768/MontyInFrontGeo115-768x513.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="513" data-original-width="768" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl9Amt7xogTUk_nkrayMR6i7Cu3PLDmfW4nDk0rBwdBjV_tDqNLW9LMe1M8uAdxXpF1xemQX-Xu6nPXcfJEtoLqbHD2KoFgfAu7oB3Evvyi79PVKwZITLrxnLWNUJmf3s0V752gIfbBlL1CUtx1-QCMqElEOWWW6PHHC2Xq_KQIAIvzFa6UZ_hV04J/w640-h430/MontyInFrontGeo115-768x513.jpg" width="640" /></a></font></span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: 7;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><font size="5"></font></span></b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 7;"><a href="http://montymontgomeryart.com/"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><font size="5">MONTY MONTGOMERY</font></span></b></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Born and raised in Virginia, Montgomery loved straight lines and bright colors at a very young age. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Since his teen years, he’s expressed his perception
of the external world by blending conflicting elements into seamless
harmony through color theory, mathematics and abstraction, to create
a unique geometric style. He was included in Gamut's 2019 show, <a href="http://www.gamutgallerympls.com/2019/03/21/tint/">TINT: A Perspective of Color</a>. Currently Montgomery lives in the city of San Diego, California. </span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/montymontgomeryart/"><span style="font-size: small;">https://www.facebook.com/montymontgomeryart/ </span></a></i><br /></span></span></div>TCBardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16273465648624108537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706154894683712524.post-84059789380287269472022-10-23T12:24:00.022-07:002023-05-29T11:51:26.361-07:00Time for the Left to Get Our Act Together<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">During World War II, we formed a Common Front with the imperialist powers in order to defeat a much worse enemy. We even armed Chiang Kai-Shek, though he turned those weapons against his own people. Now the Left - Liberals, Neo-liberals, Democratic Socialists, Communists and even this personal Anarchist - need to get together to halt the wave of Fascism that's sweeping the world: in the U. S. by means of the Republican Party, with the Nationalist alliances in Europe, the oligarchs in Russia, the ayatollahs in Iran and the gangs in El Salvador. What they all have in common is an authoritarian hatred of the freedoms and benefits of modernity.<br /> <br />Certainly I'd rather hold back Fascism while it's still possible through electoral means. This doesn't mean we're capitulating to the Democratic Party. There are many negotiations still to be made. Again, in World War II Britain promised India their independence in return for their support against the Axis powers. The U.S. made similar arrangements in the Philippines.<br /><br />People remind me that only revolution can bring real change. That may be true, however since the fall of the Berlin Wall it's become evident that violent revolution alone is no guarantee of change. The Twentieth Century saw many Communist revolutions but how many countries of those countries can genuinely say they're practicing Socialism today?<br /><br />I would also point out that Republican love guns. Many of them have arsenals stashed away in their homes. And they're much more vicious than we are. They love guns so much, they're ok with children being gunned down in school. Also many Republicans have military training. This may not be a good time for us to start a civil war.<br /><br />Closer to home, in Minneapolis we burned <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1CuSzkIEZ8TqV3B5cvTI0cBoC4WQEqK94i70WbbMHYHdZQZ3FGdSYW2lShyZslkTWkGwq7sOnojTtuvx5w3UtKofjOS8CiCz8kUS8oZT9pCYFizrbZmhvtqyJLKMyIygLiDGh5wq2deQcJmpckyUub2a3tu1lsEPn49BCdk0CpH-_bfw-o9dSiRcC/s906/news2.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="795" data-original-width="906" height="351" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1CuSzkIEZ8TqV3B5cvTI0cBoC4WQEqK94i70WbbMHYHdZQZ3FGdSYW2lShyZslkTWkGwq7sOnojTtuvx5w3UtKofjOS8CiCz8kUS8oZT9pCYFizrbZmhvtqyJLKMyIygLiDGh5wq2deQcJmpckyUub2a3tu1lsEPn49BCdk0CpH-_bfw-o9dSiRcC/w400-h351/news2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">down </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">t</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">he police stations! Is that revolutionary or not? And yet a </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">year later a movement to restructure the police has gone nowhere. It was defeated largely because we went into it behind a dumb slogan "Defund the Police" which sounded like we were going to abolish the police department with no nothing to put in their place. We need not only to control the streets but also the political process.<br /> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> <br />Really,
we on the left love slogans too much. When our opponents raised
legitimate concerns like personal safety, we gave them only vague assurances. I would suggest that there are issues which the left can
make good on. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">issues on which a majority of Americans agree with us; issues which affect people on a personal level; </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">issues like abortion, marijuana, gun control and even gay marriage. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In
Minnesota these issues have only a slim majority of popular support.
You may feel your one vote won't make any difference. It's true the
chances of a single vote deciding an election are negligible but
Minnesota does have a history of narrow margins. Recently Al Franklin
was elected Senator by less than 300 votes, In 1962 a
governor was elected by 91 votes. So </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">yours could easily be one of 91 votes that saved women's right </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">to abortion in this state.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Wouldn't you sleep better </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">knowing that</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">? <br /></span></span></p>TCBardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16273465648624108537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706154894683712524.post-48264998264845571132022-07-31T10:53:00.002-07:002022-09-18T11:31:49.834-07:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY9bhenqKbiXUnTW7MFvvaDF3aMwF3e4DDdlpIWuYDDMi8qIaDvPBkgtVZu3bv7Ct8ihkQHy8HiDFsIibY8Ep2WDAlrv9fejTJc-yYw7QDLVlWbDGNpF0MQATJpvdTfYtR9JeTp8sRg3lRrMeGJdmHYMGmygoSdom0EXrO7TcqFnEX5ikD0zOzPcqh/s816/Clipboard1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="816" data-original-width="806" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY9bhenqKbiXUnTW7MFvvaDF3aMwF3e4DDdlpIWuYDDMi8qIaDvPBkgtVZu3bv7Ct8ihkQHy8HiDFsIibY8Ep2WDAlrv9fejTJc-yYw7QDLVlWbDGNpF0MQATJpvdTfYtR9JeTp8sRg3lRrMeGJdmHYMGmygoSdom0EXrO7TcqFnEX5ikD0zOzPcqh/w632-h640/Clipboard1.jpg" width="632" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>TCBardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16273465648624108537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706154894683712524.post-38552557872085350022022-06-12T17:52:00.030-07:002023-07-24T16:00:48.832-07:00My Artworks, My Friends and Family - a List<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" dir="rtl" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg59MWgAX6uifLv5RB8bHMmh84oaU7CbU68o4MnNXdeOUPal4NNZs_8JXjO-bBKeERE2IvE6ane4wjT3UcGAKB7x2tDx8NW8b-pzo18ahObi7ie_JkpRDiZEURoA-iPJMBrQkaP6mY1jz-Yo_zCUiR6WTM-KEFhQw1IgXzyIDiDNs3Y20tPFCyXsmc5/s808/Clipboard02.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="808" data-original-width="679" height="787" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg59MWgAX6uifLv5RB8bHMmh84oaU7CbU68o4MnNXdeOUPal4NNZs_8JXjO-bBKeERE2IvE6ane4wjT3UcGAKB7x2tDx8NW8b-pzo18ahObi7ie_JkpRDiZEURoA-iPJMBrQkaP6mY1jz-Yo_zCUiR6WTM-KEFhQw1IgXzyIDiDNs3Y20tPFCyXsmc5/w661-h787/Clipboard02.jpg" width="661" /></a></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> As part of the exhibit, featured collectors were given a series of questions. I was asked:</span></span><br /><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span> <b> </b></span><b>Q</b>. What does supporting the Twin Cities art community mean to you?<br /><span> </span><b>A</b>.There's an internet meme that goes "When you buy the work of an artist. you're not just buying a thing. you're getting a piece of someone's heart, a part of their soul." When I'm alone at home, it's like I'm surrounded by friends.</i><br />That inspired me to post this list. Compiling it brought back memories of good times, great friends and fine art. My granddaughter, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/marielle.mitchell.1" target="_blank">Marielle Mitchell</a>, took most of the pictures. I hope you enjoy it.</span></span><br /></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> <a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/marx-by-anonymous.html" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="96" data-original-width="65" height="96" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7xXsYWH4XEbuhxn4aZKYhRQVeTMFAR1Wm0yNIttO6OaRv-UPqC6pVaHJvRbYbf60yY4hw_mvsKKAdLdFI0XAv0MUL1u530xKrzf06O11SfftsE-lcQM1uh1zAPNXGfotHrjytfDNcI98vQv12Le3YqaljPR-wecajdJjeyNZuaosfNL9ky6DsWMyL/s1600/Karls7.jpg" width="65" /></a><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> <br /></span></span></b></span></span></span></p><p></p><p><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/marx-by-anonymous.html">Anonymous</a></span><a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/marx-by-anonymous.html"> </a></span></span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/marx-by-anonymous.html">- China</a></span></span> <br /></span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/chant-of-moon-print-by-moonear-khar.html" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="90" data-original-width="68" height="90" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6dOqtKkvL1ZOlKnvze_zfb6wrtO65Z7XL0P5f9KH7NUByxrpGW_LVs9ncFAEV9fIhISPs8NtOD3K7bcEehp51DpMJLvXnmLvkuYtAacngC3Xx163Eo6bE2ZtRFkjkUzrj5zzPZC9ocNunF1QjRJyKGchNLOaOpyqkWtu5stPGB8FXoxL5w7Lmd4Kr/s1600/chant%20of%20loon.jpg" width="68" /></a></span></b></div><b><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"> <a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/chant-of-moon-print-by-moonear-khar.html">Moonear Khar</a></span></span></b><a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/chant-of-moon-print-by-moonear-khar.html"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></span></span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">- Minneapolis</span></span></span></span></a><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></b> </span></span></b><p></p><p><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/robots-on-stone-arch-bridge-by-linnea.html" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="100" data-original-width="77" height="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih6zC73yarfXAzfeuVcQbAkur89aUAiVmYkAKbR9z1bOT90COVCXzUwaXqLkg-lRKcKxovd6Midvy7fOUA80anZOtHKaSTFRagjNn17hz9RrsjdyOJNrA4TEvs4aQYinqETMh5V1UiJDropc583lBDzIESPDhQzwUUsIL8YWfH3piD6WuH592wWC-6/s1600/Robot-KCB-01-37stonearch.jpg" width="77" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> <a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/robots-on-stone-arch-bridge-by-linnea.html">Linnea <span style="font-size: medium;">M</span><span style="font-size: medium;">aas </span></a></b></span></span><a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/robots-on-stone-arch-bridge-by-linnea.html"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">- Minneapolis</span></span></a></p><p><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: small;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/2-blueprints-by-mary-jane-mansfield.html" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="100" data-original-width="66" height="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZA7eQH4SqPCewRiRjGSf_jW2OU8BRgKwMwCwrKAxmx753BC7w7YUOjpM_FEP_qhK_Y1An5ZhnNdvtZ0GM2JQhSAbEoQIHPQorYCyWZhYdpKP0T3yM3AP6GXFFWR_JeD31xiAKpTVjji1JOJ7ZULOzAk61BZYs5iq9pNdAxOd5tHtgkt8RwDJNy6lB/s1600/Mary%20Jane2.jpg" width="66" /></a></span></b></div><b><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></b><p></p><p><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> <a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/2-blueprints-by-mary-jane-mansfield.html">Mary Jane Mansfield </a></span></span></b><a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/2-blueprints-by-mary-jane-mansfield.html"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">- Minneapolis/ St. Paul</span></span></a></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/painting-by-gail-maxwell.html" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="80" data-original-width="102" height="80" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsoJhAKumd7FuMUnNWxIIpbgT8BMd3SAiUnOBn18qllAJkaghwso1x08LnzXKBcWvCITp3vH8VUjHxFqH5X623Bf-9bdnbCaAmX7L_hqYegzELJzvASJNH14XzgRHTFV0c5Xf7lO63mI1K1iKTetjODPjl-yNxhtQ6OcptRzKVnKMu4tp7fAuRrWcI/s1600/Gayle2.jpg" width="102" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /> <a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/painting-by-gail-maxwell.html"> Gayle Maxwell </a></b><a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/painting-by-gail-maxwell.html">- Minneapolis</a><br /><br /><b> </b></span></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/foshay-tower-by-aldo-moroni.html" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="80" data-original-width="51" height="80" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGp8ih0LRvzTD52HQTXJdUDLGFWq12fSlqBavnaCSVYAtSrndWmTgHqqlGdbU0WHXHh5d7h5aknb8ddWtH6-OJFW3pc-uAAhVhur58HDE-3ghxflXrqUCe2KMi9vFifrT1EPv-kH5BJQg1_ep_RsxdLpMF7W8mLXYAfVt7o04NRYYrTuLVX-Sugg2e/s1600/2%20foshay2.jpg" width="51" /></a></b></span></span></div><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /> <a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/foshay-tower-by-aldo-moroni.html">Aldo Moroni </a></b><a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/foshay-tower-by-aldo-moroni.html">- Minneapolis</a></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/foshay-tower-by-aldo-moroni.html"></a><a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/a-present-ffrom-joni.html" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="80" data-original-width="77" height="80" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibs0iJZDaDpPh9MQArZmkLVZV2jY281Y8XVfWlZ9fHiUAzB7Prev3fZdwTTe6bni10LWiogmS_G6C5_-y_xpGciNeLX-sEYjjt2aZbtpqfxFI_kZg_LCQhgGKfRUdOgZc7JkFiB3qK2I4-Zx-BlghQuLF_p1PCwWaXQ2J7VsCrrBnu1rEKYQ3BnIeq/s1600/joni6.jpg" width="77" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> <a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/a-present-ffrom-joni.html"><b> joni morris</b> Minneapolis/Tucson</a><br /></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/leviticus-by-ayanna-muata.html" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="80" data-original-width="144" height="78" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC5sPQwwCJSKA_DRtoIqgZ1oMPE3vLTMZc2PeTv3vVz5Pwlipm97bl910pNw1CmJyHveDzIBOJ7F5w311Qf2KjOSZszmN4a7bsIb9VxV7fNxxgmiqVwOSWsIegRP5Y8MAzhPPmAE3iBf6eV_enogTa-BJpJ83x7rPymKtIYU3P4wE32_9aC0zwyxu6/w141-h78/ayana.jpg" width="141" /></a></span><span style="font-size: small;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> </b></span></span></p><p><a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/leviticus-by-ayanna-muata.html"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Ayanna Muata</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">- Minneapolis</span></span></span></span></a></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/traveling-home-by-susan-opitz.html"><b></b></a><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/traveling-home-by-susan-opitz.html"></a><a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/traveling-home-by-susan-opitz.html" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="80" data-original-width="123" height="80" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTU-pTOpw0bACWXG0kRPGFXPhE6FQk1_kRSZPOZ9LcX1mVxXsAepSX8hLOHodWSu7TxISEtFKKN_Zj8DbbJtcm1rWwzK6tgwos1ounUYHhCyyf6qPs0dmpComWABQQJl2Jw9CJD75hbs-dz3LGYU8LvalvnTGT5_woD2ngimXswHN5xGJyoJ_TDTj0/s1600/Susan2.jpg" width="123" /></a></div><br /><a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/traveling-home-by-susan-opitz.html" target="_blank">Susan <span style="font-size: medium;">O</span><span style="font-size: medium;">pitz </span></a></b><a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/traveling-home-by-susan-opitz.html" target="_blank"> Minneapolis/ Malvern, AR</a></span></span></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/family-photograph-by-scott-pollock.html" style="clear: left; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/from-koinonia-by-isa-sanz.html" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="80" data-original-width="80" height="84" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwT2ZMGLBr0WWaQFWyOYgXxG4FzmGdxu35EwPmPCaakmoBQZFmfK-JSe17V9clpnb5eduzYMOFLIFM5FJUglBPw2yIMI0L9bChqUA7TZuVcSczmIeMV1N84ZrcCCBMKg-iQGzW6c-0V3MIS6wBw3r4cdnz5hxSuZLKtE3sRjpWbUwCekIze5WDsvS5/w84-h84/isa.jpg" width="84" /></a></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /> <a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/from-koinonia-by-isa-sanz.html"><b>Isa <span style="font-size: medium;">S</span><span style="font-size: medium;">anz</span></b> - Ibiza</a></span></span></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/two-photographs-by-ian-shillock_23.html" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="90" data-original-width="72" height="70" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuK6UTurnZn2CGIn2lCNnVNQHLr2KgfenyFoIYD19l2W8D-J3h0i1EfJE5PrR-8hDV6Z4MZ1sZgJSQD-w8TMYGnPOjaikF_Cls0S_KwSueu7aMkpGLRCB8cFxI6ipaexpvwiY6jgYV3Y4OiM00eN_ttGvOKBO4YUMFrAiAbLVEe4W9VA_lKjPjryJv/w72-h70/Ian%201b.jpg" width="72" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> <a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/two-photographs-by-ian-shillock_23.html">Ian Shillock </a></b><a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/two-photographs-by-ian-shillock_23.html">- Minneapolis</a><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/sculpture-by-ted-shillock.html" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="80" data-original-width="55" height="80" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0aUUY1tJL0uMnPYchogc7C6VNPchGYya6tqAjWY5pB1idjQ4WEFcN08iIi6iOm1CUwegaG8-DbQ0qivKPKUBsuVzT_xOpAFXpDGgC0tSB4VG2mt4XKU8_blTMyelvIggendPS2R5agZaiGJEn9SrIUEcxPTuLhnHgZHpCqiQz7oZkhXIqs0DRRti3/s1600/ted2.jpg" width="55" /></a></b></span></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> <a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/sculpture-by-ted-shillock.html">Ted Shillock </a></b><a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/sculpture-by-ted-shillock.html">Portland OR</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/a-bookmark-from-theory.html" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="90" data-original-width="87" height="90" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAO5gWL5nqV7FxGAl0Exx7xIogMDXlxrZAouu1-zNyAjgGu7K5qmLZkRqCUhXomuY0qKFRbCuBLsui9t1ut66gNijB6iwRFBlPO7U_WecTxqZ-pnvSVz5qaXLXpRH7ptzReJfnbUBFs1k-uTE9kc7B--i4OLoXGHiwelE4RnawmV3j37eyYCLHY27S/s1600/theory10.jpg" width="87" /></a></span></span></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><br /> </span><span> </span><span> T</span></span><a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/a-bookmark-from-theory.html"><span style="font-size: medium;">heory </span> </a></b><a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/a-bookmark-from-theory.html">- Toronto</a></span></span><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/04/st-jerome-in-his-study-by-jan-van-eyck.html" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="90" data-original-width="57" height="90" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYPHnLICdvjgx5DNiX7jgCG-mXmyJcehiSTetiq-fF95c_LxoUova0xH6gf3H66CtFrDdX-yAAT1buH5IMdwLKhpM5pRz1OKxpKbA07Zx7zRZ4vb1gfCIpvS6IlsO9j4LVM7CtxyOvGNl3bcSbJfPxXeeXrvIG5FMtBoSBVrkVxlk4aTviz6LXRc_7/s1600/Jan_van_eyck,_san_girolamo_nello_studio,_detroit.jpg" width="57" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> <a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/04/st-jerome-in-his-study-by-jan-van-eyck.html">Jan <span style="font-size: medium;">van Eyck </span></a></b><a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/04/st-jerome-in-his-study-by-jan-van-eyck.html">- Bruges</a></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/photographs-from-glenn-wm-oktober-wymore.html" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="90" data-original-width="115" height="90" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3HXVimTTFex_H173NVv3eiJeSjMRYmhDk-cnbRgoEacNMvF2K5JR5CdYcaGSMFt000PetxCq3kArG2rgCWdPu9u1_rSfUljr51B65ptBdqmrkdgnz7yQfydZdA7O2Y-cAGd2dwjFeIbB9vZH6sCwT4iDoypKI2WqWWGsKkmcqNVpWKXVZW8eEbsxk/s1600/glen.jpg" width="115" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> <a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/photographs-from-glenn-wm-oktober-wymore.html"><span style="font-size: small;">Glenn Wm Oktober <span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Wymore</span></span></span> </a></b><a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/photographs-from-glenn-wm-oktober-wymore.html">- <span style="font-size: small;">Minneapolis</span></a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/painting-by-james-zucco.html" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="100" data-original-width="69" height="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaTxJdAOWvCQ0Y4AXALj1KVzj3FfWgPnM3FFaoWq67rYLf1iorZtIjcVIcA3OkwlAw-VX4faiHKCt9PA_hPawK-2jdnDTa2MBk6OeRwhqYRMHTe1AGlV3QW-7dCB7H6XU0Z_pAN7zztFxNHkfI_va6n86AVXLlukKZwBUrOi2sbFm6fCw_OW00DILz/s1600/James.jpg" width="69" /></a></div><br /><p></p> <span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> <a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/painting-by-james-zucco.html">James <span style="font-size: medium;">Zucco</span> </a></b><a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/painting-by-james-zucco.html">Minneapolis</a></span></span><p><br /></p><p></p><p><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"><span><span class="nc684nl6"><span> </span></span></span></span></p><p><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"><span><span class="nc684nl6"><span> </span></span></span></span></p><p><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"><span><span class="nc684nl6"><span>Gallery owner Jade Patrick writes: <i> </i></span></span><i><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl gpro0wi8 q66pz984 b1v8xokw" href="https://www.facebook.com/cassie.garner.mpls?__cft__[0]=AZWlyIaOM0n6Mpc7RDkgb2st-jm7VgzKYw9K9wFFjX1-qt1eh2rABfQQsX8rjJ9CCkxv86Ps6sPC1X6oSNjH_2ypFPLUA7wseVudnCC8DlFWde45oeQn1sss1CMSa5JgnyhF3v4iuflDnsfSi0JyGp6H7futTLWQ35wON87Qh5pDGCUWsOsLW9W6UFhnE6cCTg4&__tn__=-]K-R" role="link" tabindex="0"><span class="nc684nl6"><span>Cassie Garner</span></span></a></i></span><i>
and I got to spend time in [Christopher's] home admiring the artwork he has
collected from Gamut and other places and people over the years. [He] </i></span><i><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto">has
been a supporter of the gallery since the very beginning, and has
reminded us of why we do what we do on more than one occasion. </span><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto">He gets it. He understands how art gives meaning to everyday life.</span></i></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqRn9sLZGdW5Uqi5YX8ChMZQHhLJKi4uyxui7oToMq6FSc7rSxOyZwoWGjbFFmkxMVZAieF8t3YhhXYShLMpRAMH9ELezW6kwgRYB_srtQ2uLjlHtcTbhVLJSIGHCUt88AF8g8ExE_HcC-LSnPnP6_pLs_oiQ0S-xEnr62JFOIjD71bWuKPdovJSFI/s1440/287077579_5403979059652482_7749454098668396504_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqRn9sLZGdW5Uqi5YX8ChMZQHhLJKi4uyxui7oToMq6FSc7rSxOyZwoWGjbFFmkxMVZAieF8t3YhhXYShLMpRAMH9ELezW6kwgRYB_srtQ2uLjlHtcTbhVLJSIGHCUt88AF8g8ExE_HcC-LSnPnP6_pLs_oiQ0S-xEnr62JFOIjD71bWuKPdovJSFI/w640-h640/287077579_5403979059652482_7749454098668396504_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>TCBardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16273465648624108537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706154894683712524.post-54304886315825263602022-05-23T16:47:00.001-07:002022-05-28T02:00:23.370-07:00Two photographs by Ian Shillock <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"> </a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnxMgZvPRO9XtVVG0B2167NSWX5VsBDv0wKcVfU61SpB-gXUwYNTusKDxU6I7-8qgHSp5JRFENAiSAYe-8mv4PPC2rJd9_Xi4mMqEDoVFFsXb9W86DyyXHaeBqL5j-T18p4agYvxDvSYuJVdooZHh4fLVlfAYNLktG1OlBa6vIqpiig_KQ5AwFn67i/s500/Ian8.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"> <br /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;">My son, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/eyebeam668" target="_blank">Ian Shillock</a>,
had been interested in photography since he was a kid, He took a couple
classes at </span></span></span></span>the U of Minnesota Extension where learned how to develop
his own film and to explore the beauties of black and white images. This
was one of his best. It really works as the center of my wall.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span><span>Recently
Ian's wife Anne gave him a fine new digital camera. This noirish piece
is one of my favorites and he gifted it to me for my birthday,</span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijX_lPkiH4lAwtdk1mXmUs7rQyY7xgDe80-WQrYD2AIxdha1gD48XLWkHGHjWZ-1pJFu_M31Nmk3ABzE_feXHM_9uU7f88KBjUD6d-8ckqtSASnNEjsfUYt_4bV3bfrQa-MswcRQG2YhwbktNXwmXCXxRadOC-3mjdRg2TgwpXtRK8BPOrYmln_lP2/s487/Ian%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="487" data-original-width="390" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijX_lPkiH4lAwtdk1mXmUs7rQyY7xgDe80-WQrYD2AIxdha1gD48XLWkHGHjWZ-1pJFu_M31Nmk3ABzE_feXHM_9uU7f88KBjUD6d-8ckqtSASnNEjsfUYt_4bV3bfrQa-MswcRQG2YhwbktNXwmXCXxRadOC-3mjdRg2TgwpXtRK8BPOrYmln_lP2/w512-h640/Ian%202.jpg" width="512" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></p><p></p>TCBardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16273465648624108537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706154894683712524.post-88417942868536268512022-05-19T22:09:00.012-07:002022-05-27T17:12:47.612-07:00Sculpture by Ted Shillock<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Hdh0wrt_7uCsf1ZHSWVkywIBg4eXeIAHIh4MhfUioiF8f7zn_AkOS4mMxUVndiY8n9ztTal9Np5UoBxnuLoXx-FY2YpdB_1lr1J_NPI49QRLdnTj-SbFF6Cagt8CfSsoeKIuoI7wqaNWme2z9_iOLuC2zLAAyC_bKGklRD603PtxrtLxyBaHoivk/s729/ted3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="729" data-original-width="497" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Hdh0wrt_7uCsf1ZHSWVkywIBg4eXeIAHIh4MhfUioiF8f7zn_AkOS4mMxUVndiY8n9ztTal9Np5UoBxnuLoXx-FY2YpdB_1lr1J_NPI49QRLdnTj-SbFF6Cagt8CfSsoeKIuoI7wqaNWme2z9_iOLuC2zLAAyC_bKGklRD603PtxrtLxyBaHoivk/w436-h640/ted3.jpg" width="436" /></a></div><p>Ted Shillock is my cousin. We grew up in different parts of the world but, as adults, managed to get together in different parts of the U. S. When I was visiting him in Santa Fe he gave me this sculpture. In 1984 - 85 Ted studied in Carrera and has worked in marble ever since. He's inspired by the outdoors and many of his subject are animals from the American wilderness. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVoRwlDa3SVhaiw7FOj5blsSWBu4UwjkgCdPa6VM7Qkym3QwzePu116lEvV-Rqr6teco9wy4eEM8ek0LCS2fL87Cf76YTUM5byYE7HRstURJY4JIaVS3KkUamssDu8o13bEk_IxQHyas84m1o3MTTi1dXnlxDgZEOt3_1FwB2XJTL_UcWRkD_0NyEG/s706/guardian.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="706" data-original-width="468" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVoRwlDa3SVhaiw7FOj5blsSWBu4UwjkgCdPa6VM7Qkym3QwzePu116lEvV-Rqr6teco9wy4eEM8ek0LCS2fL87Cf76YTUM5byYE7HRstURJY4JIaVS3KkUamssDu8o13bEk_IxQHyas84m1o3MTTi1dXnlxDgZEOt3_1FwB2XJTL_UcWRkD_0NyEG/s320/guardian.jpg" width="212" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>One of his marbles, called The Guardian, stands in front of <a href="https://www.ci.oswego.or.us/tools/library/photos/details.aspx?3764" target="_blank">the Oswego, OR, Public Library. </a><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://ancilnance.com/tedsculpture/index.php" target="_blank">Ted Shillock's sculpture website</a><br /></p><p><br /></p>TCBardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16273465648624108537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706154894683712524.post-23921692994838388392022-05-19T09:18:00.005-07:002022-05-28T11:23:45.371-07:00Reflections of Perspective by Glenn Wm Oktober Wymore<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjipwCXOtoAJyl8R1hCPnUIGYLpzcuKJnR0G5PtV2wyFIe4q9BrKWdDPNooq3OaFG2r9WPMd1rdFvmIRshTGUR51tLw5IQOYg4b1kHrv8CxueqUlCueutDbymJyxaBdwsyiXDsqX1R8qq0M04JptIc2CqCfuE7i9sCq4imdei80n6z1PQbNb-laAzEc/s576/Glen2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="411" data-original-width="576" height="456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjipwCXOtoAJyl8R1hCPnUIGYLpzcuKJnR0G5PtV2wyFIe4q9BrKWdDPNooq3OaFG2r9WPMd1rdFvmIRshTGUR51tLw5IQOYg4b1kHrv8CxueqUlCueutDbymJyxaBdwsyiXDsqX1R8qq0M04JptIc2CqCfuE7i9sCq4imdei80n6z1PQbNb-laAzEc/w640-h456/Glen2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/godsquantumcrayon" target="_blank">Glenn Wm Oktober Wymore</a> considers himself a visual poet. Usually he takes a picture from Nature and transforms it, creating something new through manipulation and juxtaposition. He also has a good eye for portraits as you can see with tbis photo of us with Brad Ptacek, owner and cook at the Band Box Diner.</p><p><a href="http://wymorestudios.viewbug.com/" target="_blank">wymorestudios.viewbug.com/</a></p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/WymoreStudios/">www.facebook.com/WymoreStudios/</a></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIDgOJbVc6NGREK1QZ-7NtF12lXTF2UWz1j2oQQm0kW_sbcRmYe0MIj6JnSY8AQ_R9P69kzWS9wXYrQM7AWC1sfBaXKUQKUfAJU1brdw4R0pLMOzzsZqWESh-zneZpn_KdabZ9CJOdpKAvYdn477BV5Lm0e0lk8RGfZ7-2pmYigiXkmNiGcM8_GWai/s307/bb2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="273" data-original-width="307" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIDgOJbVc6NGREK1QZ-7NtF12lXTF2UWz1j2oQQm0kW_sbcRmYe0MIj6JnSY8AQ_R9P69kzWS9wXYrQM7AWC1sfBaXKUQKUfAJU1brdw4R0pLMOzzsZqWESh-zneZpn_KdabZ9CJOdpKAvYdn477BV5Lm0e0lk8RGfZ7-2pmYigiXkmNiGcM8_GWai/w320-h285/bb2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p>TCBardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16273465648624108537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706154894683712524.post-69567453815062713442022-05-19T09:16:00.010-07:002022-05-29T16:35:37.910-07:00a bookmark from Theory<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbCmZ2l9lylRzPfyyiVupr_zVL2bT-XOK2XlN4P7g5SrerNrOcu3i_gIXN4wb7SKElz8ooyQAS4kmqJ7Kyscey-8q79VFZ9a-7ym3br5n0m_owjGFn4yFvNGYk4xx1c8irBwIMHQ4dxDQk9m4jsBDgzUdKSbu5jkjc8D-nAMzWHiZtwNvE9i6MZldv/s625/theory10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="625" data-original-width="605" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbCmZ2l9lylRzPfyyiVupr_zVL2bT-XOK2XlN4P7g5SrerNrOcu3i_gIXN4wb7SKElz8ooyQAS4kmqJ7Kyscey-8q79VFZ9a-7ym3br5n0m_owjGFn4yFvNGYk4xx1c8irBwIMHQ4dxDQk9m4jsBDgzUdKSbu5jkjc8D-nAMzWHiZtwNvE9i6MZldv/w620-h640/theory10.jpg" width="620" /></a></div><p></p><p>Theory is a graffiti artist from Canada. I couldn't resist this from Gamut Gallery for my bookcase. Unlike the other artists on my wall, I have no personal contact whatsoever with Theory. He's very secretive, which isn't a bad idea if you're graffiti artist. He did give <a href="https://senseslost.com/interviews/theory-interview/" target="_blank">this interview </a>once though.<br /></p><a href="http://www.instagram.com/og_theory/" target="_blank">www.instagram.com/og_theory/</a><p></p>TCBardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16273465648624108537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706154894683712524.post-74189507340030170752022-05-19T09:12:00.011-07:002022-05-21T15:16:54.686-07:00a present from joni<a href="https://www.facebook.com/joni.morris.18" target="_blank"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/joni.morris.18" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_DraZaLm-x_-3DuCYXNr-EezmToZTtK_Hb1eygLcFLcmZRJnljESJbPXB07cbD86CgV2Pj1etQ6ecHoTrC70P94BQLlHZv5VJrqcVvinB4z4pxPC0BSj8zbhV2VDpJzxYBqu2X7ExgDQXLgocL2qTQNnE32C7QenvSnSf6rmerXZ-GJiAYGgz4axM/s603/joni5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="603" data-original-width="578" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_DraZaLm-x_-3DuCYXNr-EezmToZTtK_Hb1eygLcFLcmZRJnljESJbPXB07cbD86CgV2Pj1etQ6ecHoTrC70P94BQLlHZv5VJrqcVvinB4z4pxPC0BSj8zbhV2VDpJzxYBqu2X7ExgDQXLgocL2qTQNnE32C7QenvSnSf6rmerXZ-GJiAYGgz4axM/w384-h400/joni5.jpg" width="384" /></a></div><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/joni.morris.18" target="_blank">joni morris</a> is a dear friend and a genius at decorating for small spaces. She bought this piñata for herself but then decided it would look better in my room. When she was living in Tucson she set up a reading for me at a coffee shop. Read about that adventure, and some strategic name-dropping at <a href="http://tcbard.blogspot.com/2012/03/mr-cohen-and-me.html" target="_blank">Mr. Cohen and Me</a><br />TCBardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16273465648624108537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706154894683712524.post-5106322730768639532022-05-19T09:08:00.018-07:002022-06-02T18:30:16.181-07:00Painting by Gail Maxwell<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_C0hfztoZDMqj6PwsGN0GKwIQeFCkAXv6DtOcSSbGQNiF2xFBVvp-xOQGqSBs521oD2aTC3xWQr4pL0O8rdWLCtsJpjV4iaX4Y0WFRUD4YWKexKWOuW_MGPTFwdId29CKzZ-yobjQG0YLP8zaZabv6NN7M5Iyfn3EpqWglvDAGoLL2QvIbL-RcuYt/s521/Gayle.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="409" data-original-width="521" height="502" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_C0hfztoZDMqj6PwsGN0GKwIQeFCkAXv6DtOcSSbGQNiF2xFBVvp-xOQGqSBs521oD2aTC3xWQr4pL0O8rdWLCtsJpjV4iaX4Y0WFRUD4YWKexKWOuW_MGPTFwdId29CKzZ-yobjQG0YLP8zaZabv6NN7M5Iyfn3EpqWglvDAGoLL2QvIbL-RcuYt/w640-h502/Gayle.jpg" width="640" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Gayle Maxwell is a friend from the 80's. When I helped her get a show at the <a href="http://www.allmyrelationsarts.com/mni-art-wall/" target="_blank">Pow Wow Grounds </a>coffee shop, she let me chose one of her paintings. I love how the colors change when you walk past it. Gayle's gone off social media so there's no artist links here. <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQrM6s0R5ovRUFmszoUZkYm594MbB1cJMOm5gaxzCI9mCs96ze0j279LoULiUAhFpFvYHGJ_MLYQztxHHcbTkCJ-h_ayAoZcwfp5IqhLBf1dwlLrOS3LnTVXRZdaN-e9PknwuaHSmZ6RVpzAX43S-VhvzdUNK9jqT8PZdWqLi4HW-jQv0e8nfltS5R/s301/left3.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQrM6s0R5ovRUFmszoUZkYm594MbB1cJMOm5gaxzCI9mCs96ze0j279LoULiUAhFpFvYHGJ_MLYQztxHHcbTkCJ-h_ayAoZcwfp5IqhLBf1dwlLrOS3LnTVXRZdaN-e9PknwuaHSmZ6RVpzAX43S-VhvzdUNK9jqT8PZdWqLi4HW-jQv0e8nfltS5R/s301/left3.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="301" data-original-width="158" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQrM6s0R5ovRUFmszoUZkYm594MbB1cJMOm5gaxzCI9mCs96ze0j279LoULiUAhFpFvYHGJ_MLYQztxHHcbTkCJ-h_ayAoZcwfp5IqhLBf1dwlLrOS3LnTVXRZdaN-e9PknwuaHSmZ6RVpzAX43S-VhvzdUNK9jqT8PZdWqLi4HW-jQv0e8nfltS5R/w210-h400/left3.jpg" width="210" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">from the left<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicAZI9Dyo57EH8GMyqWl44ELSTgP9l12NGwVmtxWj1GyehPvEnH99K3oGx6ubpEhDBsmkIJaCIupA4YS3tFM1D53oTlaQ_uBukOW5qL4akxirbSAruCb3Fy-kI094GQvTDruRpvKz52WlznWC2PIPnyxf4yR7QGzZz_2SNL_wIoso7CmuK0Kl_X4mQ/s388/Right2.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="388" data-original-width="226" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicAZI9Dyo57EH8GMyqWl44ELSTgP9l12NGwVmtxWj1GyehPvEnH99K3oGx6ubpEhDBsmkIJaCIupA4YS3tFM1D53oTlaQ_uBukOW5qL4akxirbSAruCb3Fy-kI094GQvTDruRpvKz52WlznWC2PIPnyxf4yR7QGzZz_2SNL_wIoso7CmuK0Kl_X4mQ/w233-h400/Right2.jpg" width="233" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">from the right<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></p><p><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></p><p><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <br /></span></p><p><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span> </p><p>The abstract swirls fit perfectly with my paintings by <a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/west-of-moon-painting-by-shoshonnah-holl.html" target="_blank">Shoshanah Holl</a> and <a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/traveling-home-by-susan-opitz.html" target="_blank">Susan Opitz</a>.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVedBx3uPij0ipWME_4LFvuV4KpdwNyJTZP2Y4S_xU4xtGDWWdfPefj9LY7FRp7kCl4mdvlOIV1UyPwo6_pOoV2GImHDMtONXgZruSrvez_uCH95X6C9PrQHXdJ5G5HN_uSv55NavWDlxAFNMGG3f-lQSKqWdj7tEq1UL8D5DkvDRUM-7RZcTIYg_g/s497/room3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="296" data-original-width="497" height="382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVedBx3uPij0ipWME_4LFvuV4KpdwNyJTZP2Y4S_xU4xtGDWWdfPefj9LY7FRp7kCl4mdvlOIV1UyPwo6_pOoV2GImHDMtONXgZruSrvez_uCH95X6C9PrQHXdJ5G5HN_uSv55NavWDlxAFNMGG3f-lQSKqWdj7tEq1UL8D5DkvDRUM-7RZcTIYg_g/w640-h382/room3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p></p><br /> <p></p>TCBardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16273465648624108537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706154894683712524.post-75188972342089687002022-05-19T09:07:00.010-07:002022-05-28T13:51:54.400-07:00Lake Nokomis by Heidi Arneson<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-Wf7I-Ikd36kJOQNZtB1SX5QwxEa-0_fMg_2mBrHy06T8DhiSgg69DH0JhuoEnFncd8CXMqnI6JsinwAk7Hl8KEIsK0FdlOcVRHjef7VQ80dMlmS9yD4U4dluB4Unv-EWvA_mmKXkf1P5hP7EYPzo9Brg1tg1ov4YZ8ApM938SZQzBgdrm693glAc/s660/heidi.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="660" data-original-width="553" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-Wf7I-Ikd36kJOQNZtB1SX5QwxEa-0_fMg_2mBrHy06T8DhiSgg69DH0JhuoEnFncd8CXMqnI6JsinwAk7Hl8KEIsK0FdlOcVRHjef7VQ80dMlmS9yD4U4dluB4Unv-EWvA_mmKXkf1P5hP7EYPzo9Brg1tg1ov4YZ8ApM938SZQzBgdrm693glAc/w536-h640/heidi.jpg" width="536" /></a></span></span></div><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/heidi.arneson.79" target="_blank">Heidi Arneson</a> is brimming with talent in so many different fields - a sort of Babe Ruth or Shohei Ohtani of the arts. Her quirky performance pieces could leave you laughing- or crying - while her weird deadpan delivery left you scratching your head, trying to figure out why. She paints and she </span><span><span> recently </span>completed a very readable novel: a thriller and a coming of age story with disturbing hints of child kidnappings.<br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>When I lost my home downtown and <a href="https://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/05/traveling-home-by-susan-opitz.html" target="_blank">Susan Opitz</a> let me stay in her basement, Heidi brought me this painting for a housewarming present. In return I read her a poem and gave her my <a href="http://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/03/invisible-jazz.html" target="_blank">Invisible Jazz </a>cd. Later she told me she had it playing while she was painting her house. That's how singers have it over poets.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/heidijarneson/?hl=en" target="_blank">Heidi's paintings</a> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3AHeidi+Arneson&s=relevancerank&text=Heidi+Arneson&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1" target="_blank">Heidi's novels</a> <br /></span></span></p><p><a href="https://heidiarneson.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">All things Heidi</span></span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/HeidiArnesonsDeepFunStopMotion/featured" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Heidi's videos</span></span></a></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/55PQsdU-T6E" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="266" data-original-width="407" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMj1nU4UFObmnm90RyMsbb5eu5zBR9adDwm0EKvcxriTPp8job8u0zSWtk3FbRqvDWvi5TFDvj4xd9kLdlVO1DJNdMREmPgNb5LBJ13DNGPLjz_wXQfBo9240-t3wP00PqCfF7IYrMphv85wOqhT-Wyu5oHJNLRF1FenUI0rZtV4S7ImnLYqAYuWVb/w400-h261/Clipboard01.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/55PQsdU-T6E" target="_blank">One Sweet Breath 4:18<br /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><br />TCBardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16273465648624108537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706154894683712524.post-85786601007583794182022-05-19T09:04:00.010-07:002022-05-25T15:40:42.748-07:00Marx by Anonymous <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDZg6I8qgEpUOVsHyPcF5UX3unx2v6UD-G8kD6-Jqj0XJY3DUVaLMG_tqGiu33dYasc2SRLx92cHZHvHMZXmvaDkacf5LiHFkgk-3rhdl304fwLPe6dk3ez-eL1paTZO1eWaE5137x1SbkHUi7jDkY17inwWgQs2OG8ssso33blV_J5V_08p0zpp2X/s358/Karls5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="358" data-original-width="354" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDZg6I8qgEpUOVsHyPcF5UX3unx2v6UD-G8kD6-Jqj0XJY3DUVaLMG_tqGiu33dYasc2SRLx92cHZHvHMZXmvaDkacf5LiHFkgk-3rhdl304fwLPe6dk3ez-eL1paTZO1eWaE5137x1SbkHUi7jDkY17inwWgQs2OG8ssso33blV_J5V_08p0zpp2X/w395-h400/Karls5.jpg" width="395" /></a></div><br /></div>I bought this silk print in a small bookstore in Dinkytown in the 1970's. The owner had gone to China shortly after it was opened to Americans. I keep it hanging in my room and in my heart (although, these days, in my head, I supplement reading in sociology and anthropology). For family Christmas I would put a red hat on him - because after the Revolution, every day will be Christmas.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEcSkCdFJjy2T-st1zEsJncg631jxreyigorRi0Ie13DGNl0NZlbRswHg0hP6GEL2kP6stLQY9zDfDHD_pCOQpyi_pZlOIuZPMbeWCt0K1FB6xuCrkWzqHKzIoWeur7XYDztkzE7FsUXamcJn3-yMqH-RHs2f-zlJL-z2-e9MaVPalx7YrB-aW58l4/s500/santa.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="368" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEcSkCdFJjy2T-st1zEsJncg631jxreyigorRi0Ie13DGNl0NZlbRswHg0hP6GEL2kP6stLQY9zDfDHD_pCOQpyi_pZlOIuZPMbeWCt0K1FB6xuCrkWzqHKzIoWeur7XYDztkzE7FsUXamcJn3-yMqH-RHs2f-zlJL-z2-e9MaVPalx7YrB-aW58l4/w148-h200/santa.jpg" width="148" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>TCBardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16273465648624108537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706154894683712524.post-18081664064879035432022-05-15T09:39:00.013-07:002022-05-21T09:34:47.558-07:00Foshay Tower by Aldo Moroni<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhONQkpmT8wqYIb8_dox3LMVsu-bDcKKSopxHd94jOWcq2geNaYq6oaO1bu_3n_T6R0lRJbHL3tDAmgOhp5suCE8Eh0X3SkqE3mN76DTdX11Hcepz67rRBST2r3qanwZr9js8azTThiYoUcnjtrtPUkggxzVg0xnjmoJqASPU6MTB9ocL3AUlsQo81q/s373/2%20foshay2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="373" data-original-width="240" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhONQkpmT8wqYIb8_dox3LMVsu-bDcKKSopxHd94jOWcq2geNaYq6oaO1bu_3n_T6R0lRJbHL3tDAmgOhp5suCE8Eh0X3SkqE3mN76DTdX11Hcepz67rRBST2r3qanwZr9js8azTThiYoUcnjtrtPUkggxzVg0xnjmoJqASPU6MTB9ocL3AUlsQo81q/w412-h640/2%20foshay2.jpg" width="412" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Right outside my front door.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/AldoMoroni" target="_blank">Aldo Moroni</a> died <a href="https://www.startribune.com/aldo-moroni-beloved-minneapolis-artist-who-created-tiny-civilizations-dies-at-67/572568322/" target="_blank">on 9/27/2020</a>. He was a terrific guy: bluff, friendly, always generous. Once I went in to buy a couple of his towers for <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ModernSteph" target="_blank">Stephanie Mitchell</a>'s garden and he cut the price so much, I had to buy a third one. Minneapolis at large can remember him for his sculpture at the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MinneapolisFed/videos/1181029805592756" target="_blank">Federal Reserve Bank</a>, historical markers in Southeast and the Cedar Riverside light-rail stop.</p><p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/aldomoronistudios" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/aldomoronistudios</a><br /></p><p><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/214436527?h=6cb866a28b" width="640"></iframe>
</p><p><a href="https://vimeo.com/214436527">Aldo Moroni Northeast Minneapolis Arts District Vision Award Winner</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/flyoverfilmsmpls">FlyoverFilms</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p><p></p>TCBardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16273465648624108537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706154894683712524.post-597470594550455862022-05-12T00:12:00.014-07:002022-07-16T20:38:35.882-07:00City Spinning by Venus de Mars<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizISXnAbbaWMNoq7pt3aG3Gvs6CNlylV284G2dbNyQGET6JCfkzitGWIfKrUcbEgjlPO_D7JbcIUJRMlgMZ0Xc10ZuZyDcOiq7MIqM3sIz4tWlNxco5ZKXAG1KCqdAr8Re5a-FRZxc5PADFrp7u46-awjx4lybJbLkr4WpBJwvSQOKZtiBwhjoq_-H/s567/VeNUS3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="567" data-original-width="238" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizISXnAbbaWMNoq7pt3aG3Gvs6CNlylV284G2dbNyQGET6JCfkzitGWIfKrUcbEgjlPO_D7JbcIUJRMlgMZ0Xc10ZuZyDcOiq7MIqM3sIz4tWlNxco5ZKXAG1KCqdAr8Re5a-FRZxc5PADFrp7u46-awjx4lybJbLkr4WpBJwvSQOKZtiBwhjoq_-H/w269-h640/VeNUS3.jpg" width="269" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/venus.demars" target="_blank">Venus de Mars</a>, along with her spouse, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1116129057" target="_blank">Lynette Reini-Grandell</a>, have been invaluable helpers in my career as a poet. Lynette had me on her radio show numerous times, Venus rented me her studio to shoot my poetry video book, <a href="http://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/03/an-invitation-to-terrorists-ball.html" target="_blank">An Invitation to the Terrorists Ball</a>, She also appeared in the video and performed at the release. For my <a href="http://tcbard.blogspot.com/2022/03/invisible-jazz.html" target="_blank">Invisible Jazz</a> release, she lent me her fog machine.<br /><br />Venus is another one of my multi-talented friends. She's one of the most emotionally expressive singers in town, both as a soloist and with her band, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/VenusdeMarsandAllThePrettyHorses/" target="_blank">All the Pretty Horses</a>. She's equally expressive as a painter of gender fluidity and here, the vegetative fluidity of urban structures. And now she's writing a book! </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> Check her out at <a href="https://venusdemars.com/art.html" target="_blank">Venusdemars.com/arts.</a></span></span></p><p><a href="https://www.venusdemars.com/ " target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">www.venusdemars.com/ </span></span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/venusdemars/?hl=en" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">www.instagram.com/venusdemars/?hl=en</span></span></a></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>Me, Venus & Tabatha, my singer from Invisible Jazz</u><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9EtkagwMpy6dMrTsxuONzfDCK3IP57XjDnZ2NdNlyv5mlS_cQisXlqTto8clJY45I9BmjCtfYXVXt5bNj8ColHHaMap6gxD8gB5QPqA-2QelzcJEnteGH0HJGPeCSk7bJ19bonLdnU28f0Ep1SOdFCjyyOQjFvAy0p4pjay2X8t5z11kTGJVfgX_Z/s1440/Chris%20Venus%20Tabatha.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="875" data-original-width="1440" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9EtkagwMpy6dMrTsxuONzfDCK3IP57XjDnZ2NdNlyv5mlS_cQisXlqTto8clJY45I9BmjCtfYXVXt5bNj8ColHHaMap6gxD8gB5QPqA-2QelzcJEnteGH0HJGPeCSk7bJ19bonLdnU28f0Ep1SOdFCjyyOQjFvAy0p4pjay2X8t5z11kTGJVfgX_Z/s320/Chris%20Venus%20Tabatha.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>TCBardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16273465648624108537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706154894683712524.post-20102290271158626572022-05-11T17:35:00.010-07:002022-06-06T15:16:51.519-07:00Everything Changes by James Zucco<p></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDMmCvzmj4kmrZBz5pQpaSXwTAOIq7TgC8IMJ45Px3LVaeeqsLoxCHfysxN4b2UYkooWwvLINdtvMIHxVFLzRD6ab1rFyMAhSCmc_qgi4Qm3dGe-N2kZ_rDmdVaF2WIy4UJ9bDvSyBsNP_-zWjJRANpbl_jbir_kIofrgHU9EY2lr8aBlPKPpWqrOR/s2881/James.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2881" data-original-width="1976" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDMmCvzmj4kmrZBz5pQpaSXwTAOIq7TgC8IMJ45Px3LVaeeqsLoxCHfysxN4b2UYkooWwvLINdtvMIHxVFLzRD6ab1rFyMAhSCmc_qgi4Qm3dGe-N2kZ_rDmdVaF2WIy4UJ9bDvSyBsNP_-zWjJRANpbl_jbir_kIofrgHU9EY2lr8aBlPKPpWqrOR/w438-h640/James.jpg" width="438" /></a></div></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">James Zucco worked as</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> an art director in advertising but now spends his time drawing,
painting and thinking. I bought the painting at a Gamut show which paired </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">James with <a href="https://www.kimheidkamp.com/about" target="_blank">Kim Heidkamp</a>, </span></span>two artists whose clarity in </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">very different </span></span> media surprisingly complements each other's work. I was struck by the simplicity of black ink on white paper here and how it incorporates the elements of chance through shapes and shades created by the spread and the pooling of the ink on paper. The particular painting I bought shows either a human face emerging from chaos or one dissolving back into the void and - at the very crux of the line but slightly off center - there sits a knowing human eye penned in meticulous detail. At home I have the painting hung at eye level and it feels like I'm looking into a mirror and it's my own dark side coming forth. Gamut chose this painting to exhibit on their 10th anniversary show highlighting customers who bought art from Gamut.</span></span></p><p><a href="https://jameszucco.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">jameszucco.com/ </span></span></a></p><p><a href="https://choosemuse.com/blog/meditation-creativity-with-artist-james-zucco/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Meditation & Creativity with Artist James Zucco</span></span></a></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSd5b97XQPKboI9MGKnzpCUQKSRiiaaqVvGHlHxo54lURB6j_BPZLggwOIm-3u0AdTVS2jjVgD9GcU1cWVEEMUpsfN-iFYqRoUpe1yrmw0x3GAfX-bE_iQ2o-QpuV6xJ8aZK_hx0URrsWQUqkLy-MFMbSH24ohNe8uYOAyvoktvICuVcxa136hSvgW/s1500/NYTM-Fiction2018.gif" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="425" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSd5b97XQPKboI9MGKnzpCUQKSRiiaaqVvGHlHxo54lURB6j_BPZLggwOIm-3u0AdTVS2jjVgD9GcU1cWVEEMUpsfN-iFYqRoUpe1yrmw0x3GAfX-bE_iQ2o-QpuV6xJ8aZK_hx0URrsWQUqkLy-MFMbSH24ohNe8uYOAyvoktvICuVcxa136hSvgW/w425-h425/NYTM-Fiction2018.gif" width="425" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">from the New York Times</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span><p></p>TCBardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16273465648624108537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706154894683712524.post-68961245056017470382022-05-08T18:17:00.009-07:002022-05-21T21:16:43.953-07:00Chant of the Moon print by Moonear Khar<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKrGjXPvZP6z4FwGuhg7qbeoLsTYTdO5_6zZczWSaxEp9G3u30-LJJWO5xFE6IXQ-9DTjK7hZTY7S5wKORTSi4g9LZ4WxgoRieiE0hOQB6SwWsZaaPXXu9iF8LVsifr4d90RDnnT_Saz2LUJOUKx5cwSzoyINpgyQTbPqF7uxxYKqAU8uxhl8ohWM3/s1124/chant%20of%20loon.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1124" data-original-width="843" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKrGjXPvZP6z4FwGuhg7qbeoLsTYTdO5_6zZczWSaxEp9G3u30-LJJWO5xFE6IXQ-9DTjK7hZTY7S5wKORTSi4g9LZ4WxgoRieiE0hOQB6SwWsZaaPXXu9iF8LVsifr4d90RDnnT_Saz2LUJOUKx5cwSzoyINpgyQTbPqF7uxxYKqAU8uxhl8ohWM3/w480-h640/chant%20of%20loon.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I've known <a href="https://www.facebook.com/dnoyeb.khar" target="_blank">Moonear Khar</a> primarily as a curator of experimental/ abstract music in Minneapolis, starting at the Walker Church in Minneapolis about 15 years ago and currently producing a monthly series at the relocated <a href="https://www.houseofballs.com/" target="_blank">House of Balls</a> on the West Bank. I only discovered his paintings a couple years ago. He said that when he came to the U.S.his first summer was spent at a lake home where he would hear these birds trilling at night. The loon is our State Bird in Minnesota and I love the local reference. I also appreciate the pairing of the loon with "la lune" even though Moonear tells me that was never his intention.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://Balunggetih.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">https://balunggetih.com/</span></span></span></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSuSE-20CRigoGe8j3fj5wHvIaFoq9vG0NExgc_ySzrardG_lVMefkniWsfCJfXAYsuBMXAW41JJ11MxTbsZGiWkvLT5OH2pa713JXk8T2dAzcjMrAXF3jaRZHkvlh_Bxcr5ClAOZ1HcmzHX6u-6XQVtY6rK3hIlVD-ar0MttLnyntAaAIC-xFYTLy/s1242/moonear.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="985" data-original-width="1242" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSuSE-20CRigoGe8j3fj5wHvIaFoq9vG0NExgc_ySzrardG_lVMefkniWsfCJfXAYsuBMXAW41JJ11MxTbsZGiWkvLT5OH2pa713JXk8T2dAzcjMrAXF3jaRZHkvlh_Bxcr5ClAOZ1HcmzHX6u-6XQVtY6rK3hIlVD-ar0MttLnyntAaAIC-xFYTLy/w400-h318/moonear.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /> </span></span> <br /></span></span></div><p></p>TCBardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16273465648624108537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706154894683712524.post-24941165882832330752022-05-08T07:14:00.015-07:002022-07-16T21:19:49.648-07:00Leviticus photograph by Ayanna Muata<p dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;"></p><div class="separator" dir="rtl" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaNVTBhEeVbrZ2pF99UT5aBS8OXUJ7SbSQU_wDvMMjOCUhe-8zogBnd1xviY2Jrc-7kNlJiglvwydGOjcBotfLMR07Dv-yvZpNw0zJ9c7nbpIomgHA6LVuUg1zgVCEzw3T4oNd2zy7wFU4RRcDpGDhjBl4SMcPgt5-RzzDGhwnWNo9X60fczwJVpPv/s1259/ayana.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="1259" height="357" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaNVTBhEeVbrZ2pF99UT5aBS8OXUJ7SbSQU_wDvMMjOCUhe-8zogBnd1xviY2Jrc-7kNlJiglvwydGOjcBotfLMR07Dv-yvZpNw0zJ9c7nbpIomgHA6LVuUg1zgVCEzw3T4oNd2zy7wFU4RRcDpGDhjBl4SMcPgt5-RzzDGhwnWNo9X60fczwJVpPv/w640-h357/ayana.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> have several artist friends who are multi-talented but <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ayanna.muata" target="_blank">Ayanna Muata</a>'s creativity burns </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">with an unquenchable fire</span></span>. The photo of a badass writer is from a series in the Cindy Sherman vein displayed in her gallery. The self portraits recreate iconic images ranging from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/waningmoonphotography/photos/a.599448976772044/1210590912324511" target="_blank">a clown in white face </a>to a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/waningmoonphotography/photos/pb.100028607456493.-2207520000../760043770712563/?type=3" target="_blank">farm girl</a> to an <a href="https://www.facebook.com/waningmoonphotography/photos/pb.100028607456493.-2207520000../657217810995160/?type=3" target="_blank">elegant lady</a> of the Victorian Era. Lately she and her husband, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/cam.muata" target="_blank">Cam Muata</a> are working on a CD , <a href="https://www.facebook.com/themuatas" target="_blank">Battle Weary</a> for release later this year. It's already getting some airplay.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://themuatas.com/gallery" target="_blank">themuatas.com/gallery</a></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiFbZ6XKYal5BNXZiTDEZbQ" target="_blank">www.youtube.com/channel/UCiFbZ6XKYal5BNXZiTDEZbQ </a></span></span><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/waningmoonphotography/photos/?ref=page_interna" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/waningmoonphotography/photos/?ref=page_interna</a></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span> </span></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="#" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7hdPYdqCuNkDreSVf0YleLAAfv1IpVnqIQ3QhAaTxTAMo4djJ3ESZ4iCAzCTjTvOj-1eCeSNrrDnPFvnb0_OchgSd9pHNAUGDl5EzydzjaC6IQfKNBrvP9CArkzcmOTwlNGB3VvULtLtp7SJzYV7JyK5Y5VTPBnxiftW3f9ulmuM90-rjdsRuehI3/w220-h207/AYANNAA.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ayanna took a photo at the pickup </td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="#" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx71_ki97xBZQ-8JIQ38yZ8tbcfb2sIWRmor_8ckBwUY06WZNwAtBIM-OnQHFrVyWn6pqAuTfC9BinewCW2tpAUXY4KbIxw0ZNRTqJOVqRJ3jM6nyxmlwJAoX7cA04wf6XK00_q3dXkncUiCnwmqY-RuV2DCNeiltZGybiVBrfMBlFnbTEGnnm8bXV/w342-h261/aYANNA%20%20bA%20NDBOX2.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We ran into poet Terry Folz at the Band Box<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div dir="rtl" style="text-align: left;"><p><br /></p><div dir="rtl" style="text-align: left;"></div><div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;"><p></p><p></p></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0Fkuq8955r_9EsV386AjoD_CctjJM7KZwi0VwTb16bfg31Le2ydANA6l8AH7516BAU_2denTWJtFetxqN6OghYfq4A2rA15Eq--RjAM7thROBS8StHZ9N-8adADs3-PSO2BXLAr24nrx3T4V13cKHjE4qb3Iwp9uKYOqDszRJrSQGbufm5xPe-hgl/s640/Cassie.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0Fkuq8955r_9EsV386AjoD_CctjJM7KZwi0VwTb16bfg31Le2ydANA6l8AH7516BAU_2denTWJtFetxqN6OghYfq4A2rA15Eq--RjAM7thROBS8StHZ9N-8adADs3-PSO2BXLAr24nrx3T4V13cKHjE4qb3Iwp9uKYOqDszRJrSQGbufm5xPe-hgl/w285-h214/Cassie.jpg" width="285" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I bought one of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/linneamariemaas" target="_blank">Linnea Maas</a>'s cute robot pictures at Gamut </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Gallery's Raging Art On show. When you buy </span></span>art at Gamut, Cassie. the owner, takes it right off the wall and delivers it to you at your favorite diner. I met Linnea a year later at an open house at the <a href="https://www.casketarts.com/" target="_blank">Casket Arts</a> building. When I asked about the robots she explained that her boyfriend likes bicycles while she herself wields a brush. <br /><br />Linnea also sells cute robot magnets and key chains and a coloring book. My daughter-in-law. Anne, loves Linnea's robots and bought two of her paintings. </span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> <a href="https://insidetherobot.com/" target="_blank">insidetherobot.com/</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://casketarts.com/FA_linneamaas.html " target="_blank">casketarts.com/FA_linneamaas.html </a><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/InsideTheRobot/" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/InsideTheRobot/ </a></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xZvpEvsNCF8" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><br />TCBardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16273465648624108537noreply@blogger.com0