Tag Archives: Bob Dylan

bootleg cover

by Art Chantry: this is a cover of a bootleg rolling stones recording from back in 1973. they were just taking break on their legendary monster tour following the release of “Exile” and this is a tape of a concert … Continue reading

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darwin: if only one could discern it

…Darwin had been struck during the voyage by a number of facts which seemed at odds with the special creation of each species. The organic life he studied so intensively and collected so assiduously seemed littered with clues, odd similarities, … Continue reading

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art for the sake of creative destruction

Consciousness of the all-mighty dollar is pretty pervasive, even overwhelming. In the modern art world it informs aesthetic and spiritual content like everything else in society, conquering art such that art itself is a pure commodity, a sub-species of money … Continue reading

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darwin: dispensing with adam

…Darwin took with him on his voyage, besides his own knowledge and aptitudes, one indispensable tool for interpreting what he saw. Before sailing, Henslow pressed upon him the recently published first volume of Charles Lyell’s Principles of Geology., with instructions … Continue reading

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darwin: we may all be netted together

Darwin. His theories have already made one profound change in man’s ideas about himself and his world. An now with genetics we are entering phase two… …The furor created by the publication of The Origin of Species was not due … Continue reading

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like mowing the grass

Imagine Joseph Stalin signing the Seven Noahide laws. Impossible. There was an Eddie Murphy movie where he was unable to spend anywhere near a fraction of the money he had, try as hard as he might. The same way, it … Continue reading

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the shovels are ready: funeral time

It didn’t take Nate Silver to inform our electoral sensibilities that the Republicans would get their asses wiped. Or as Bob Dylan once sang, “I don’t need the weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing.”  Lame candidates, too … Continue reading

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you ain’t goin’ nowhere

To exhume or not exhume? This could go on for years. At some point there has to be money changing hands and legal issues of who is the trustee of the Arafat estate and who doles out the lucre to … Continue reading

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he let the dogs out

George W. Bush: painter. Painter of dogs and landscapes. And dogs in landscapes. … If dogs run free, then why not we Across the swooping plain? My ears hear a symphony Of two mules, trains and rain The best is … Continue reading

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chains and chimes of freedom

John Howard, friend of the Josiah Wedgwood circle, worked for prison reform, striding through the foul smelling jails of eighteenth-century England, in Erasmus Darwin’s words, “if not to sever, to relax the chains.” They themselves pressed for the abolition of … Continue reading

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