law of falling bodies

THE SCREAM WAS FOUND!!!

The press when this was stolen a couple of years ago lamented that Munch's painting techniques were not archival and that the missing painting was likely to have crumbled off the canvas.  Munch was known to leave his works out in the snow, not giving a shit about preservation.

BUT IT'S OKAY!  Or, at least, a fine fine rendition of it is.  Maybe an El Mir version, better than Munch's original, but it's here. ::;link to research the fine art of El Mir

Block the Sun - Pilsen Art Walk approaches

I made this one a few months ago.

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see new work on Sept 29, 30, and Oct 1 at my show for the Pilsen Art Walk

Will Rumsfeld goose step out of this one?

After the shitstorm of left press hit the fans the past two days regarding Rummy's Salt Lake City address likening critics of the Iraq war (a majority of Americans) to those who allowed Hitler to gain power, journalist Ken Olbermann razor slams Don on MSNBC.
link to article & video clip

Nude in Attrition

I finished this one about a  year ago.
It's 2'x3'
oil
and Crusty, the guy who frames my paintings picked this one out as a trade payment for his work.

click on image for larger version

UK Musicians stymied by sweeping carry-on restrictions

Musicians in the UK are being forced to leave their instruments behind as they return home or move on to the next gig - the shiney new law requires instruments to be in the hold.  Where cold temps can crack wood, sure hands of luggage personel can do their finest and the rigors of flight movement can see to the rest. link to BBC article

Finally. If not jetpacks, then DEATH RAY-GUNS!!

Plans to build a ray-gun are online!  Hooray!!!!
link to page

my first song lyrics:

THE RED STATES - band out of Chicago/Milwaukee, available for Church get togethers, High Life parties, Landmark Forum meet & greets, Golf outings, Bavarian Grove rituals, Pentagon mixers, Aipac conventions, GOP flavored gatherings and all places American patriots wish to feel music lift their citizenship up from their toes to their nose AMERICAN STYLE!!!!!
link to www.charcoll.com to contact for bookings

Track 1, as yet untitled

The world is filled with terrorists
and I'm a-puttin' up my fists to fight away the freaks who hate the USA!
Bushie boy don't need to read
a thing besides the bible's creed so Cheney told him blom up! it's the end of days!!

Hail Hail hail
USA USA!  all you shitbirds gonna pay
USA USA! - we always have the right of way
USA USA! - exporting freedom everyday
USA USA! - hip-mutherfucking hip-HOORAY!

Don't bleed nothin' bout a civil war
Iraq, Iran it's all a bore - send those dirty wogs to kingdom come!!!
Don't we got bombs all out in space
from reagan's spending, bless his face?
let's show these bastards where the hell we're from -----
Hail hail hail
USA USA! - the map is gray beyond our bays
USA USA! - we don't like those married gays
USA USA! - God and country's what we say
USA USA! - so git the fuck out of our way

I've never heard of Wahabi
just keep your sushi off of me - if Bush don't know it, it don't need be known.
With good old Dick rewriting laws
and congress caving to his cause we'll get those sinning bastards to attone!
Hail hail hail
USA USA! terrorists just stay away!
USA USA! a new pearl harbor paved the way
USA USA! the rich will guide her this grand day
USA USA! and speak english here my friend, Jose!

I vote with diebold machinery
with faith that God will carry me and my GOP past year 2008.
Don't read nothin but my TV guide
and the Left Behind books (they're so fly) and I think on stuff that's served up on a plate.
So bring it on Mr. Terrorista
Block that border and stop those visas, build up walls and let the levies wait.
I know G. loves me from his smile
and that he's sure it's all worth while. I'm safer and I know just who to hate!
See Bush has got to stay the course
the apocolypse needs his endorsment - bring it on! my cowboy rides for all that's good.
It's not in that book (the bible, sure)
but God, Himself, would like this war - and so do I cuz Jesus says I should
Hail Hail Hail
USA USA!  all you shitbirds gonna pay
USA USA! - we always have the right of way
USA USA! - exporting freedom everyday
USA USA! - hip-mutherfucking hip-HOORAY!

Song lyrics for my PATRIOT cd

I've decided to form a band.  It's called THE RED STATES, which Chris came up with.  Patriotic anthems for the country we love, America.  I'll be writing lyrics for Jason Loveall to score to various four/four marchy, lock steppy music. 

You know, ba-DA-ba-DA baDA-baDA,    ba DAAA ---  ba daaaaah. 

I fhave faith that I can provide the citizenry with much needed inspirational music for the expression and sensation of patriotism.  Shortly after deciding to form a band a magical piano was offered to me to keep in my apartment indefinitely.  It arrives in a week.  Thank you Claire.  The whole country thanks you.

Seeing this as a sign from Jesus, (the piano) I am filled with creative USA brand Juices.   I hear you calling.  I hear your sweet sweet voice.

Although I will wait until the Pilsen Art Walk to uncover the light of the holy spirit that I've used to make songs of the American Way, I'll share with you a children's poem I composed in the after glow of my song lyric writing moments of faithful bliss:

a CHILDRENS' poem for a right wing primer
A look into the well documented life & teachings of Jesus Christ, the very first Christian, paraphrased from all His scenes in the oldest book in the world, the BIBLE!
JESUS!! AMERICAN STYLE!!!!!!
(a read along)
boys and girls,
Jesus loves to sit quiet and listen:
Jesus loves a politician.
Jesus loves the tax collectors.
Jesus loves all board directors.
Jesus loves the bold and prideful.
Jesus loves a good reprisal.
Jesus loves the rich & greedy.
Jesus likes his missiles speedy.
Jesus loves the oil we drill;
Jesus even loves the spills!
Jesus loves a good ole war
cuz Jesus loves the christians more!!
Jesus loves the jews a little.
Jesus loves a white house riddle.
Jesus loves a profiteer.
Jesus loves to drink a beer.
Jesus rides a horse with chaps
With George & Dick right on his lap.
Jesus loves the end of times as
much as any book of rhymes!
Muslims make sweet Jesus cry.
Jesus hates when stem cells die!!
Darwin tried to blow up God
but Jesus killed him with a nod!!!!
Jesus hates all magic spells
But love love LOVES Wisonsin Dells.
Jesus sees you do that nightly
Jesus hates things so unsightly.
Jesus loves the matyred saints
With all their blood done up in paints!
Jesus loves a hard fought battle!
Jesus loves soldiers' death rattle.
Sinners make Him cry with sadness
until He's pissed off by their badness
then He comes on like Ninjas swarming
(and He doesn't buy this global warming.)
Jesus really hates all women
He wishes they'd get pregnant swimmin'
so that man would never know
the spot that makes their peeter grow.
Jesus hates the dirty girls
who drop their drawers for all the world -
they don't believe they'll get in trouble
and want all chuches razed to rubble!
Jesus watches all them burn
AFTER they die cuz THEN they'll learn!
Jesus hates the sexy dancer
(that's why he invented cancer.)
Jesus did not and won't have sex
and this may seem a bit complex
but sex though funner than most things fun
will knock you out of kingdom come.
Jesus knows that you can't see Him
His Dad gave him a scant per diem-
but Jesus picked a man to guide us
through the middle east detritous.
Jesus likes it when we die
if God's name's on the bombs that fly!
And if you think to taste the fruit
forbidden to the right and good
thinking "I'll DIE and not know PLEASURE!
How sad!  I'll wrinkle, bloat and fissure
without the taste of sin's old glory -
Jesus, let ME have just ONE good story!"
Those who think that life's for sensation
rather than grave reservation
die and burn and writhe and wail
and fester and shriek while they're impaled
and squirm and freeze and suffer and plead
for Satan just to let them bleed -
Do NOT listen when THEY tell
you there isn't any place called hell.
Jesus  smites the atheists
when they die (trust me on this.)

12 easy steps to drain money from FOCUS on the FAMILY

Today I got up at 7a to go wait tables.  The place was robbed, the aloha system was down, and it's the air & water show in Chicago.  No computer at a brunch place on sunday.  Tourists.  Hungry tourists in from the suburbs with their barbarian spawn ranging without grey area from decrepitating obesity to frightening anorexia.  And Chris is out of town. 

I had to find something online to bare the brunt of my wrath today, and without Chris here I had to turn to the interweb.  I love you, sweet sweet interweb.  I do I do.

Link here - this article will guide you through the process of getting free materials, DVDs, CDs, Books ad nauseum, provided to the public by FOCUS ON THE FAMILY, a Colorado Springs bastion of anti-homosexual publishing. 

You can get up to $100 worth of stuff each (and every) time you place your order.
And the materials are just lovely.  I'll be receiving the recommended book that details how to prevent the potential homosexuality in your brood, among other goodies.

And it's meant to earn them money through that tricky not for profit word, donations.

Now I feel better.

NYT Delayed Publication Of NSA Spying Story Before 2004 Election

NYT Delayed Publication Of NSA Spying Story Before 2004 Election

New York Times | Byron Calame | Posted Sunday August 13, 2006 at 04:03 AM

On December 16, 2005, the New York Times revealed that the Bush administration had been eavesdropping on telephone calls  without a warrant in an in-depth investigative report by Eric Lichtblau and James Risen. Controversially, it was also revealed that the NYT had "delayed publication for a year." Questions arose as to whether the NYT had had evidence of the program prior to the 2004 election and had kept mum. Today, NYT Public Editor Barney Calame has the definitive answer:

"I have now learned from Bill Keller, the executive editor, that The Times delayed publication of drafts of the eavesdropping article before the 2004 election."

link to huffingtonpost.com article