A Medal For Doing Nothing
Sunset At Capitola Beach
Sunset At Capitola Beach
Tuesday 2nd January around 2 p.m… I’m trying to think. Sitting on Scruffy. Got the heater going. Storm’s looming. Thanks to my painting project last summer I’m sitting high and dry. Knock on wood. I’m rocking a little. Not Rocking and Bobbing. Nothing too serious. Storm came in on time. Weather. com got it right for a change. Storm front arrives like clockwork. Like it’s got nothing better to do. Show up and power down on us a little. I…
Angelus Novus, by Paul Klee. The artist’s friend Walter Benjamin, a noted German critic and philosopher, purchased the print in 1921. In September 1940 Benjamin committed suicide during an attempt to flee the Nazi regime. After World War II, Benjamin’s friend Gershom Scholem, a distinguished scholar of Jewish mysticism, inherited the drawing. According to Scholem, Benjamin felt a mystical identification with the Angelus Novus and incorporated it in his theory of the “angel of history,” a melancholy view of historical process as an unceasing cycle of despair.[1]
Lock and Load
18 December 23 Tuesday at the Office Around noon. Raining like hell. My feet are wet. This is not good. Makes me feel like I’m coming down with something. I’m sitting here at the office at my favorite corner table, facing customers lined up for coffee. Look at them. A slice of humanity. None of them recognizable. My pal Sonyo, helming the register, I’ll get her permission for this blog post. A few of you been reading me know I’ve…
Stuff just pops into my head
I like to do nothing all day
Is this the future
Another Christmas rolls around!
Members of the Hitler Youth chosen by the NSDAP Office of Racial Policy.