The view of the moon from my bedroom window, just after 3am. . Middle Of The Night 10”x8” oil on wood panel . Available on my website

Bruce Springsteen is some good, strong, sorely needed, goddamn medicine for Minnesota. This is a concert that is, and my words won’t do it justice, amazing. Sharp, specific, resolute, angry, and inspired. Some rock shows are all about just having a good time. Something larger is in play here.

After poignant & very funny off -Broadway musical “About Time,” late dinner with Jamie Bernstein.

love it! punsters have no shame.

poster from 10 years ago. Bancroft Way, Berkeley.

so true. persons of color even US citizens have been more or less in hiding since ICE began its assaults. not that they have fled--(fled where?)--but they lie low only leaving their houses when necessary for work. being white at least allows freedom to protest, appear in public like this.

Gas skyrocketing, bombs dropping, our standing in the world in tatters, taxpayer dollars up in flames — meanwhile this oligarch dictator wanna-be brags about his new ballroom and the “Corinthian” columns How is every American not sickened by this?

Is the world really going to have to suffer WW3 because the USA can’t impeach a president?

I was reading Adam Gopnik's book review of "The Banker Who Made America: Thomas Willing and the Rise of the American Financial Aristocracy" (by Richard Vague), and I strongly suspect it is a 4-page exercise to sneak this one line in the middle.

He thought he was going to make more money, MSB will pull him and Kushner through the war.

Oh you left out Replace a Venezuelan dictator who tortured with a Venezuelan dictator who tortures.

It's par for the course isn't it? Replace Taliban with Taliban. Replace Ayatolla Khamenei with a younger Ayatolla Khamenei. All going as planned.

He couldn’t stand Obama, so he set out to negate the deal by saying it was the worst deal, without probably ever reading it. So the U.S. is at war (again) with a foreign nation, all because of this pile of odorous excrement *president couldn’t stand the fact that he will never measure up to Obama.

Trump is much faster. Only took Trump a week to replace Khamenei with Khamenei. 🤷‍♂️😎

Really, is it that unbelievable?

So the idea that such an enormous loss of life and vast expense was somehow justified just to erase Obama’s signature is almost beyond satire… But that’s Trump for you. He wants to remove Obama from the history books.

So the outrageous loss of life and expense was simply to remove Obama’s signature? No wonder his sycophants can’t explain it! DC is now fuck-wit City!

Think about that..

Are you looking for new book reads? Look no further. Check out my weekend picks in this week's Press-Republican. #writingcommunity #writerslift #writers #readers #bookreviews @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social #readmorebooks #Bookboost

The New Jersey State Bird open.substack.com/pub/foxattim...

if we wait until all the major issues are finally resolved we will never talk about anything of minor but significant interest, ever.

And brain research has shown that learning cursive benefits kids artistically, creatively, and helps with ordered thinking.

At the old book market in the parc Brassens in Paris, I scored a 2-vol facs. of Van Gogh’s letters in his handwriting. W/my project “The Suicide Artists,” in part a response to your “Art of Suicide” article which you gave me a copy of, it seemed almost better to read his letters in his handwriting.

No Kings!

Franz Marc (1888-1916) Horse and Dog, 1913. oil on canvas. #Cubism

Princeton ‘No Kings’ rally set for March 28 planetprinceton.com/2026/03/23/p...

but assuming that people can sign their own names in cursive? or is it all block-printing now? handwriting is a definite pleasure, aesthetic & psychological. it is as personal as our fingerprints. cannot really imagine trying to create something original that is not in handwriting.

When Democrats accuse Trump of a crime, it's because he actually did it. When Trump falsely accuses Democrats of a crime, it's because he actually did it.

One reason I love this poem so much is because for all the beauty of the stoicism he describes, Hayden makes a point of including a reference to "fearing the chronic angers of that house." So if we're bringing back selfless sacrifice as a model of masculinity, let's try to leave out chronic angers.

TO MARLON BRANDO IN HELL open.substack.com/pub/joycecar...

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Is it any wonder people feel the system is rigged?

Salvador Dalí "Spring Explosive" (1965) limited edition lithograph #ArtSky #Dalí

Protesters gathered in Trafalgar Square as it filled with voices condemning ICE terror From London, a clear message rang out state violence will not be ignored. When abuse goes unchecked, the world responds. Solidarity doesn't stop at borders.🇬🇧

Strange situation where we await a statement from Iran to check whether there's any truth to what US president is saying.

Since 1994, immigrants have paid more in taxes than they receive in benefits every year. Do not believe the lies you hear about immigrants. They are good for society and the economy.

Can't argue with that.

Is it happening again?

"swanky" is a curious adjective for Gothic architecture of 1897 so, no.

they are already terrorizing passengers and dragging them off crying. bsky.app/profile/thet...

is there any reason why the ICE agents separated a mother from her daughter at the SF airport? this posting doesn't seem to explain...

Bird Of The Day - (Finches) Goldfinch clinging on to a twig... Co. Galway Ireland. #BirdOfTheDay #Finches #Goldfinch #Wildlife #Ireland #Nature #EastCoastKin #Photography #Birding #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #PhotographyIsArt

the limits of US democracy have been exposed since 2016-2017. conjoined with the development of ways to defeat the integrity of old-fashioned voting (as E. M might one day disclose: he has only just boasted of rigging the 2024 election but has not gone into details).

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) Jimson Weed (1936) oil on linen.

I think it's time we call them by their rightful name: Concentration camps. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

My painting WESTERN STORM

Blair Hall, 1897, Princeton. My seminar room is the behind the row of windows beneath the clock.