Tag Archives: Gov. Rick Perry

the too real to be true deal

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Dave

We seem to be on the verge of a new era of populism, a search for someone to rise up on behalf of the little guy and gal like- Obama was rhetorically pining to do before getting knock-kneed- and defying … Continue reading →

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elected to the plurality of gods

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Dave

They are both waiting fot their angels to call them. The disordering of the senses and a powerful and arrogant imagination. A belief that what is best and most courageous in him goes back before The Fall. Yes, a medieval … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Arthur Rimbaud, Christopher Hitchens, George Romney, Gov. Rick Perry, Harold Bloom, jef rosman, joseph smith LDS, Mitt Romney, orson pratt, Paul Verlaine, thomas s. monson | Leave a comment

stop the rain

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Dave

Politics. Is there a place where we collectively send rich and talented, or somewhat talented people when they have nothing left? Its hard not to acknowledge. After all, there must be something of the imminently cruel, somewhat voyeuristic attitude embedded … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Amy Goodman, Burt Lancaster, Christopher Hitchens, franklin roosevelt, Gov. Rick Perry, Jack Levine, John Lennon, Noam Chomsky, Steve martin | Leave a comment

peter pumpkinhead

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Dave

…”Let him jump so that he will fill the sacks along his back bone with air and then he can not go deep to die”….”I want to see him and to touch him and to tell him he is my … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Burt Lancaster, Christopher Hitchens, Ernest Hemingway, Gov. Rick Perry, Heath Ledger, rebecca black, richard brooks, Richard Dawkins, rick perry memes, Sinclair Lewis | Leave a comment

leading the blind

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Dave

Different stages of falling. Trust, surprise and then shock. The Church in the background is a symbol to invoke the risks in straying from the church? Perhaps. Bruegel demonstrates that the natural, uncivilized realm of man is a constituent element … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged cardinal granvelle, Gov. Rick Perry, Masaccio, mayken coecke, Pieter Bruegel, pieter bruegel parable of the blind, Pieter Brueghel, pieter brueghel the younger, rick perry texas, Rudy Rucker, sam lloyd, William Carlos Williams | Leave a comment

Broke bank: ballads of bonnie and clyde

Posted on November 19, 2011 by Dave

Its a type of calling. A kind of priesthood. Except the fire and brimstone has been replaced metaphorically by the Biblical intonations of the high priests of economics. They have either found them and dusted them off from a new … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Madame Pickwick Weekend, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Ben Bernanke, Charles Baudelaire, D.W. Griffith, don knotts, federal reserve board, Gov. Rick Perry, Humphrey Bogart, Jim Rickards, John Heartfield, michael oher, Serge Gainsbourg, Sigmund Freud, sigmund freud rat man, the blind side movie, W.C. Fields, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

poverty: robbery assault and flattery

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Dave

Is it right for heart to be too often in the right place? The epitome of the bleeding heart liberal.Can pity be the artists worst enemy? John Galsworthy’s father became a lawyer but thought little of that dusty profession in … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Charles Le Brun, Corot, Edouard Manet, france revolution 1848, French Political Satire, GOP leadership, Gov. Rick Perry, harriet cohen, Honore Daumier, John Galsworthy, john noble, martin luther king monument, Myra Hess, Nicolas Poussin, Obama jobs plan, Rabbi Joshua Abraham Heschel, The Affordable Care Act, u.s. poverty statistics | Leave a comment

a thurber carnival: happy days are here again

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Dave

The black, memorable year of 1929. Its 2011, three years since the great recession and the economic needle won’t budge.Employment is worse. And the housing crisis and foreclosures show little improvement. Are we in a socialized version of the dirty … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Barack Obama 2012, Ben Bernanke, charles krauthammer, Dorothy Parker, Eugene Delacroix, Gov. Rick Perry, James Thurber, Jonathan Swift, Konrad yakabuski, kyle crichton, Mae West, Mark Steyn, max eastman, michelle bachmann, Noam Chomsky, Paul Krugman, Pecora Commission, Tod Browning Freaks 1932, W.C. Fields, William Saroyan | Leave a comment

segregated bus

Posted on August 19, 2011 by Dave

Convoke the Committee for Un-American Activities. Revoke the Civil Rights Act. Was Obama’s crime to be on a white’s only bus? Or, you would think he was reveling with Neal Cassady and Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters on their … Continue reading →