Rating: ❤❤❤❤ Quite often, I become a fan of an artist more than her/his main art, compelled by her/his general style, philosophy, humor and insight. For instance, I can take or leave most of Kandinsky’s stuff, but his philosophical statements on visual art and aesthetics are priceless. Likewise with Marcel Duchamp, Marlene Dumas, Picasso, Andy Warhol, …
Rating: ❤❤❤❤ Nowadays, Lord Alfred Douglas’ “love that dare not speak its name” dares to speak its name – and then some. In fact, it needn’t dare at all, because, for the most part, non-heterosexual speech is popular, widespread, bold, prevalent – and, yes, even moralistic. For me, the love hinted at in the poem by Douglas …
Rating: ❤❤❤❤ Norm Macdonald is a treasure. There. I said it. Ever since I saw his bizarre, surrealistic appearances on E!’s Howard Stern show back in the wee 1990s and became one of a handful of cult fans of Dirty Work, I’ve appreciated his truly unique wit, evident intellect, extemporaneity, cleverness, subversion and, in a word, …
Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ Spouses of very famous people are usually seen as representatives or extensions – even appendages – of those very famous people. For the most part, this is especially true for Presidents’ First Ladies. Even though most, if not all, of them have been quite active and instrumental, assisting the President himself and/or attending to …
