Rattlebrained

Some days I just like to let the currents push me here and there. Offering no resistance can be a way to explore since it doesn’t necessarily mean remaining passive. Is that too far fetched?

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Isn’t contemporary art great! So much better than all those dusty old paintings that took hours to look at because there was just too much to digest. Now you can go look at an exhibition, pop through it in no time whatsoever, be delighted with it all and go on to the next one. It’s the greatest thing, and whats more you don’t need to worry about being smart or educated enough to understand anything. The zap through concepts that many hot young artists are chugging out these days are shrewdly calculated to nudge you exactly where it’s needed to trigger that automated response! You are putty in their expert hands…

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Has anyone noticed how before 9-11, there was this TV series and movie trend for plots taking place in a sort of post trauma environment? Everyone out in the dark streets, standing around fires burning in big 55 gallon oil drums, shabby overcoats, gloves with cut off fingers, everything black, dark and grey….

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There hasn’t been much snow this winter but last month, on the day following one small snowfall, I noticed a few “positive” footprints on the sidewalk. Positive seems to me as good a way as any to describe footprint shaped patches of snow on an otherwise clear sidewalk.

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As daylight-saving time plunges us into the future or the past depending, I was thinking of a short story by the French author Marcel Aymé (1902-1967), read a long time ago and whose title I can’t remember. The story is based…

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Last night I joined my good friend and fantastic blues player Dave for a short concert at an outdoor picnic organized by a local institution for the handicapped. For me it was…

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