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catherine: search for golden pheasants
Catherine’s boat ride. It was 1787 and the Empress was showing off the wonders of her realm, which were many indeed. Question was, were they real,or fake? Only General Potemkin, the one-eyed giant, knew for sure. And he wasn’t saying… … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged Catherine the Great, Czar Peter III, Diderot in Russia, Friedrich Melchior Grimm, General Potemkin, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mae West, peter woditsch, potemkin village, Taurian Palace, Virginia Rounding, Voltaire
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back to stovall’s plantation
On the one hand, what could one possibly expect from the entertainment industry. Its “product” serving as the servile public relations arm of the financial/industrial complex. And its been that way since the Hays Code of the 1930’s which coincided … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alaya Dawn Johnson, allison Janney, Bechdel Test, ben sidran dylan different, Bob Dylan, boris lurie, Charles Dickens, conrad black f.d. roosevelt, Daniel Craig, f.d. klingender, Feminist frequency, franklin roosevelt, george takei, jack warner, Louis b. mayer, Mae West, Oscar Awards 2012, Otto Dix, Pablo Picasso, robert e. howard, sam gompers, shirley temple, stieg larsson, The Artist movie, Tod Browning Freaks 1932, tree of life malkin, Winter's Bone movie, Woody Allen
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oh to be a saucy chantoosey
Never underestimate the power of lewd in America… by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) THE blues were not popularized by old black men riding the rails in the deep south. i know that’s heresy to say out loud, but those great great … Continue reading
approaching perfection: little spots of hurried slop
Cher and design of the times: utterly awful and utterly perfect. Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): Lately I’ve noticed a lot of Time Magazine covers being displayed in the Facebook™ thread I’ve been reading. A lot of my old pals are displaying … Continue reading
The CAMEL, The SPHINX and Diverse HinjinXXX
Euphemisms tend to lose their protective magic at a fairly rapid rate. Like Sisyphus, the moralists can never seem to to carry, drag or otherwise schlep that ball to the top of the mountain and give it back to its … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous
Tagged Alexander Cockburn, Alfred C. Kinsey, Allan Ginsberg, Allen Ginsberg, Havelock Ellis, James Franco, James Panero, James Thompson, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Jennifer Peto, Jerry Aronson, John J. Ray, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, M.L. Ernst, Mae West, Norman A. Rubin, Peter Fryer, Theodor Adorno, Theodore Schroeder, Thomas Martin, Thomas Rowlandson, W. Seagle
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BLONDE AMBITION & SEDITION: THE WHITE VEIL
The woman’s legs seemed to go on forever. It was hard to tell exactly whom they belonged to, or what she was thinking, but their purpose was clear, dominating a billboard for a new condo…. drawing the eyes of admirers … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Aphrodite, Betty Grable, Billy Wilder, Bruce Hainley, Debbie Reynolds, Edmund Spenser, Feminism, Francois Rabelais, Gender and Politics, Holliday T. Day, Homer, Isak Dinesen, Jacques Derrida, Jane Mansfield, joan riviere, Joanne Pitman, Laini Michelle Burton, Leni Riefenstahl, Lucrezia di Borgia, Mae West, Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, Masaccio, Menander, Mikhail Bakhtin, miranda devine, Pamela Anderson, PETA, PETA Dan Matthews, Raphael, Sandro Botticelli, sara ahmed, Seneca, Sigmund Freud, Simon Houpt, Spenser, Sue Williams, Sue Williams Art, The Robber Bridegroom, Theodor Adorno, Travis Gertz, Vanessa Beecroft, Zoe Brigley
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300 POUNDS OF JOY: THE SKINNY ON THE FLABBY
Fat flabby annie was incredibly big She weighed just about sixteen stone And then a fake dietician went and put her on a diet Now she looks like skin and bone. Do the meditation and yoga And she’s thrown away … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Andre Ferre, Andre the Giant, Andre the Giant Ferre, Belushi and Ackroyd, Belushi and Aykroyd, Biblical Nephilim, Bruce Snowdon, Cary Grant, Diane Arbus Jewish Giant, Dionysis, Fit Light Yogurt, Harold Huge, Ibrahim and Sugar Cube, Ibrahim the Mad, Isaac Cruikshank, L.C. Geerts, Mae West, Marc Hartzman, Marie Adams and the Three Tons of Joy, Obesity, Ray Davies, Renaissance Art, Richard Wagner, Ron English, Shakespeare Falstaff, The Kinks, The Pete Lewis Band, Titian, Valkyrie Brunhilde, Ward Hall, William Heath, William Shakespeare, Zeuss
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