Tag Archives: Ray Caesar

mad about goats

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Dave

Men who stare at goats and then steal them. They don’t even have to do a messy slaughter. They just stare at them until they croak and roll over. Think of goat rustling as paranormal phenomenon in the national interest … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Avraham Hertzlich, Francisco Goya, George Clooney, gil elvgren, Jeff Bridges, John Lukacs, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Men Who Stare at Goats movie, Project Jedi, Ray Caesar, Shebaa farms, The Evil Eye | Leave a comment

climbing walls: walls and bridges

Posted on October 20, 2012 by Dave

Exposing the racist, sectarian, homophobic, and misogynist characteristics intrinsic to Judaism as patriarchal “activity” used to reinforce the inferior status of women? Or is it just an easy public relations target for the women, who expose themselves to little risk … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Anat Hoffman, Bashar Assad Syria, Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Vice Saudi Arabia, Free Syrian Army, Israel Religious and Action Center, Lesley Sachs Women of the Wall, Micky Rosenfeld Israel Police, Okaz Saudi Arabia, Paul Cezanne, Ray Caesar, Reform Judaism in Israel, Shira Pruce, Women of the Wall | Leave a comment

free, except for the catches in the fine print

Posted on October 13, 2012 by Dave

The Aleppo campaign seems bogged down by lack of dry powder.They agree to disagree. But one thing is certain, they don’t seem to really want a free functioning liberal democracy with both secular and religious rights in harmony side by … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Ahmad al-Sheikh Abu Eissa, Ahrar al-Sham Salafist, David Petraeus CIA, Franz Marc, Franz Marc paintings, Free Syrian Army, Hussein Fahs Hezbollah, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nusra Front, Prince Bandar Saudi Arabia, Ray Caesar, Ray Caesar art, Skinner Box, Syria Crisis Bashar Assad, Yoni Alpert Terror Watch | Leave a comment

Over the fiscal cliff and into the abyss

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Dave

it seems like a mocking story in a way; the insecurity of the public sector when they have to get out from under their mother’s skirt and make their way in the real world all by their lonesome, and in … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Bill Curry Globe and Mail, David Autour, Francois Legault counselling program, Frank Levy, IBM Watson, Jim Clifton Gallup, John Maynard Keynes, Josef Koudelka, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Ray Caesar, Tadeusz Kantor, technological unemployment, Tony Clement Treasury Board, Warren Buffett GEICO | Leave a comment

long hot summer: praises of follies

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Dave

Divorce. But who gets custody? … In the summer of 1520 a papal bull declared Luther a heretic, giving him sixty days to recant or be excommunicated. Luther’s answer was to burn the papal bull, and the canon law with … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Baruch Spinoza, Desiderius Erasmus, Hans Holbein the younger, Luther and Zwingli, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Heidegger, Martin Luther, Peter F. Wiener, Ray Caesar, Ray Caesar art, Robert P. Erickson, Voltaire The Enlightenment, William L. Shirer | Leave a comment

Unknown knowns: less favorite things

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Dave

Sacred intensity? Is it kitsch, contrived, organized sentimental logic advocating tolerance or a gateway to perverse desires? The theory of Slavoj Zizek is that natural and caring urges ultimately lead to silly, maudlin fantasies or its flip side: the types … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Jacques Lacan, Josef Fritzl, Michael Luntley, Ray Caesar, Slavoj Zizek, the sound of music, Walter Benjamin, zbigniew libera | Leave a comment

automatic pilot

Posted on November 20, 2011 by Dave

Our lives are literally, virtually, based on software. Financial markets are regulated by software. Government is run on software. The military is dependent on software. Financial indexing is dominated by four companies, and despite a bit of fudging, it is … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged brendan coffey, Franz Kafka, George Orwell, Gilles Deleuze, Jeremy Blake, Kafka before the law, marc filterman, Marcel Duchamp, marko peljhan, Michel Foucault, Ray Caesar, Theresa Duncan, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

theory of the middle class : a few bad apples

Posted on October 8, 2011 by Dave

Jonathan McIntosh:We will miss Steve Jobs. We will not miss his pioneering of closed systems, monopolies, predatory business practices, slave labor, worker suicides and locked devices…. Apple products. iwant, iwant, iwant, idesire, idesire,….the epitomy, the sweet spot of American middle … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged a.j. cronin, alan randolph, apple computer, art chantry, H.G. Wells, james newman, jay yarow, joe priester, John Galsworthy, joseph heath, kathleen e. mclaughlin, koshar, michael tompert, nick hubble, Ray Caesar, ross mckibbon, Steve Jobs, steve jobs death, susan buck-morss, Thorstein Veblen, vinnie chieco, Walter Benjamin, wintek parts factory | Leave a comment

Multiple personality art: 3d goth on the long way back

Posted on January 30, 2011 by Dave

He claims to be haunted by an alter-ego.And he is probably right. Perhaps more than one. He is also becoming a celebrity; making noise in the world of pop art and serious art with haunting, surreal, and mysterious digital prints, … Continue reading →