Last night on the NBC Nightly News, there was a segment, part of their Making a Difference series of feel good stories about people helping out others, that was a follow-up to the story from a week or so ago where the off-duty Milwaukee firefighters rescued a family trapped in an overturned and burning minivan.
It [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Healthcare, Anyone?
Posted in Biographical, Current Events, tagged Milwaukee firefighters, NBC Nightly News on July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Early Bruce
Posted in Biographical, Video, tagged Bruce Springsteen on July 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’m on the road today so I’ll fill with a little story.
When I was seventeen years old I left high school early, in January. I guess I graduated. I had enough credits, had fulfilled all the requirements. Never went to a ceremony, never received a diploma. I had had enough school at that point. I [...]
On the Horizon
Posted in Recent Paintings, tagged Corning NY, Erie, KADA Gallery, West End Gallery on July 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Well, the show is up and hanging, with paintings like the one shown here, Going Up Country, at the West End Gallery and will do so through the end of August. The next items on my agenda are a few small events but things that matter to me.
For instance, tomorrow I head out to Erie, [...]
Holbein’s More
Posted in Favorite Things, Influences, Painting, tagged Frick, Hans Holbein, Henry VIII, Sir Thomas More, Utopia on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You run across a lot of people who are completely dismissive of anything from the past. They feel that we at the moment are the leading edge of humanity’s progress, that we are the culmination of all that has come before us and thus, anything created long before our time can not have equal value [...]
Wheels of Freedom
Posted in Biographical, Favorite Things, tagged Don Quixote, Huffy Stingray, Rocinante on July 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I had an old friend show up at the opening of my show at the West End on Friday night, someone I had not seen in thirty years or more. Near the end of the opening I looked up from a conversation and saw a familiar face grinning at me, a face that I knew [...]
Sunday Quiet
Posted in Favorite Things, Video, tagged Chris Isaak on July 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sunday morning. Quiet.
There’s always a certain stillness on Sunday mornings. Very little traffic as I walk down our long driveway to get the paper. Hardly anything stirring.
I always enjoy these mornings, always feel as though I have the world to myself. Like the quiet is all mine.
Big quiet.
Here’s an older song from Chris [...]
Show Afterthought
Posted in Recent Paintings, tagged Corning NY, West End Gallery on July 25, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Well, we had the opening for my solo show last night at the West End Gallery and I’m pretty happy with the results so far. The turnout was very good which, for a summer opening, is somewhat surprising given the multitude of things going on and the number of people heading out to the lakes [...]
Show Day/ Song of Self
Posted in Recent Paintings, tagged Corning NY, West End Gallery on July 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Well, another show day has come around. Tonight’s opening is at the West End Gallery in Corning, kind of my home gallery. It’s in my home area and was the first gallery to show my work so there’s a certain sentimental attachment. You always want to do well on your home field.
Normally, this [...]
The Most Trusted Man in America?
Posted in Current Events, Favorite Things, tagged Jon Stewart, Walter Cronkite on July 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I normally don’t have two posts in the same day but I had to comment on a story I just read where, in an online poll taken by Time (click on to see the results and map), Jon Stewart prevailed as the most trusted newsman in America. And not by a small margin. He topped the [...]
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