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Latest Additions to the Blog
Luigi’s Circle Jerk Army
On April 13, 2025, the antediluvian punk rock band from Los Angeles, the Circle Jerks, performed at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Singer
Mary Washington Monument Vandalized
On the night of July 26, 2025 in Fredericksburg, Virginia, Antifa vandals defaced the city’s monument to Mary Washington—mother of George Washington. The historic 1894
MacArthur Park is melting in the dark.
In large part this is a personal account of how MacArthur Park has been a continual background setting for my life in Los Angeles. When
Three Random Blog Posts
Abdication of the Artists: A Retort
Larry Beinhart, author of Wag the Dog, just published an interesting essay titled, Abdication of the Artists. In his piece Beinhart bemoans the complacency of
Art: Another Casualty In Iraq
Two years after the US “liberated” Iraq, artists in that beleaguered nation are barely hanging on. Having survived the long night of Saddam and the
Jacob Lawrence: Painter of History
I first discovered the works of Black American artist Jacob Lawrence, as a teenager in the late 1960’s. Inspired by the Civil Rights Movement and