Jean-Michel Basquiat, photo by Michael Halsband, 1985

Nina Simone performing I Loves You, Porgy, 1959

Frame from The Night of the Hunter, directed by Charles Laughton, 1955

A photo I took 9 years ago today at the Rock River in Janesville, Wisconsin. ❄️

Jane Reece. The Mask (Josephine Schwarz), 1926

Elliott Smith performing Angeles

Hilma af Klint. The Large Figure Paintings, The WU-Rose Series, Group III, No. 4, 1907

My art. The Third Secret, 2016

Georgia O'Keeffe. Spring, 1948

Tom Waits performing Going Out West, 2002

Eikoh Hosoe. Man and Woman, #31, 1960

"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old." ~ Franz Kafka Jan Voerman Jr.. Apples, 1963

Nostalghia, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, 1983

Mark Lanegan performing One Way Street

Udo Kier in Narcissus and Psyche, directed by Gábor Bódy, 1980

"You are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing." ~ e e cummings Georgia O'Keeffe, photo by Alfred Stieglitz, 1921

Jean Painlevé. L'Hippocampe (Seahorse), 1934

Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis. Scherzo (Sonata of the Pyramids), 1909

Link Ray performing Rumble in 1974. In 1958 it was the only instrumental song ever banned from U.S. radio. It was feared that the song would incite gang fights and juvenile delinquency.

The Tale of the Fox, by Ladislas Starevich, 1937

Miles Davis, photo by Glen Craig, 1970

Clip from Swing You Sinners!, 1930

Colored pencil drawing by JB Burke

Ernst Haeckel. Discomedusae, 1904

"Within its gates I heard the sound of winds in cypress caverns caught Of huddling trees that moaned, and sought to whisper what their roots had found." ~ George Sterling Franz Sedlacek. Ghosts on a Tree, 1933

Andrew Wyeth. Dance of Death, 1973

Andrew Wyeth. The Witching Hour, 1977

Alphaville, directed by Jean-Luc Godard, 1965

Jean-Michel Basquiat, photo by Nicholas Taylor, 1979

Willy Zielke. "Gespenst" (Ghost), 1939

Frida Kahlo. Thinking About Death, 1943

"Close both eyes to see with the other eye." ~ Rumi Animation by Jake Fried

Mark Linkous, photo by Hayley Madden

Charles Mingus

Wovenhand

Konstantin Korobov. Trap

Rene Magritte. The Month of the Grape Harvest, 1959

David Lynch. Head Talking About Billy

I don’t advocate violence of any kind, political or otherwise, on any side. I also won’t be gaslit into believing a foul hate-monger was simply a regular guy with different views. Here is a sampling of what he was all about:

Agostino Arrivabene. Il foliato, 2025

Georgia O'Keeffe. An Orchid, 1941

Jean Cocteau holding ‘Les trois-yeux’ ('The Three-Eyes’), 1958

“We have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love and the community to produce a kind of human paradise. But we are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary." --Terence McKenna

Hate is so bad for health. It's bad for one's physical health and mental health, and bad for one's soul. Spiritually, it's so devastatingly destructive. I never in my life felt hate before Trump became president the first time. And I hate him with the blinding white hot passion of a thousand suns.

Trump's body language is always completely different than usual when he's with Putin. Hunched over with that pouty look on his face ... he looks like a scared dog.