IT IN place

The graphic is from a painting my dad did in 1967, the year of my bith, etc. I screwed around with the color, however, to work with the wheel and the blog just hit 5555 views!

After I made this entry and named it Rome Moans, a travel show about Rome came on WNYC and they showed a victory Arch. I started thinking about the great late bridges as New York’s Post WWII Victory Arches. Now the odd thing was that the Arch they showed from Rome, celebrated Rome’s conquest of the Jews. I couldn’t help but think about Moses….

I’ve been working on this painting since the Rat Town Promenade. This is the map I used.

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Liberty’s Torch threw out a mist of golden New York Summer and I took my mind for a moment back beyond my fat gut and dull mind towards a youth, like Fern Hill, and Nixon and Acid and Sinatra. I saw the Nation as a great teeter totter and hoped and prayed that the tilt was coming soon… I hopped upon a memory of a movie I saw the other night. It was based on a Vonnegut short story called Mother Night and starred Nick Nolte. Now the movie was okay for a Vonnegut adaptation (which never work)… but the jewel of it was a sort of Hitchcockian Vonnegut cameo… with him walking down the street on the East Side where you used to see him walking and smoking with his dog. They shot it in slow motion and somehow his gangly, Protestant, German, dog face gave me faith in a world past religion…. secular humanism? Amen.

vimeo allowed me to revisit this video as video… I used it in a gif a while back: here.

The other day I was digging around in my boxes of drawings and came upon the unfinished painting and so started working on it. Today I was trying to burn all the high rez images from the last year out of i-photo (this is the raw material, not what was published on line… ) onto a dvd and managed to loose 3,500 photos… I still have the blog and my back ups to the blog, but it means it all stays low rez… maybe it’s meant to be that way, but I’m still an idiot.
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