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Archives for November 2022

Defsons for Mustill

November 30, 2022 by Jan Herman

Norman O. Mustill

We bloom only once
and some of us never bloom —
not even once. You were perennial.

Blogs Are Personal . . .
Keeping Up With a Gen Z Artist’s Recent Drawings

November 28, 2022 by Jan Herman

Two bats, one cat, and several people. Also have a look at this art student’s previously posted drawings..

A Straight Up Thanksgiving — It’s a Tradition

November 23, 2022 by Jan Herman

Our Thanksgiving team of William S. Burroughs and Norman O. Mustill
has been a happy pairing since 2012. It still is. So here they are again, sweetened by Heathcote Williams’s words in a narration-cum-montage by Alan Cox. It’s all so delish.

Designers Pushing the Envelope . . . ?

November 14, 2022 by Jan Herman

The New York Times Magazine used to have a nameplate. It still does. Most of the time it’s all there. Sometimes you have to search for it. How come? The designers are: a) being avant-garde, b) reinforcing a theme, c) too clever by half, d) all three, or maybe e) just having fun.

Amélie’s Recent Drawings
What Seahorses and Birds Have in Common

November 11, 2022 by Jan Herman

Although seahorses and birds do not share a common link in the fossil record or, as far as we can tell, even in legend, they do share a delicacy of line and boldness of appearance in these two drawings by a teenage artist whose talent and development have caught the attention of this blog.

With Democracy in Peril
May the Midterms Land as Gracefully as Amélie’s Pigeons

November 8, 2022 by Jan Herman

The staff here has followed from a distance the drawings of a young Dutch art student, Amélie by name. She was precociously talented at 13, at 14, and at 15. She is now 16, and her studies continue with work more accomplished than ever. Regardless of the midterm outcome, we will be posting some of her other recent drawings soon.
Update Nov. 10 — The Dems oughta take Amélie’s pigeons as their aspirational logo.

Greed, Cheating, and Lies
Top Shitholer Goes Whole Hog at the Public Trough

November 4, 2022 by Jan Herman

Trump Centaur

“This case is about greed and cheating on taxes,” the chief of investigations for the Manhattan District Attorney, told the court and promised the jury it would get the ‘inside story’ of how the scheme was carried out. Unfortunately, the trial has been delayed due to a Covid infection. Until it resumes, here’s the outside story. This item has been updated.

Do You Remember ‘do you remember’ by Emmett Williams?

November 2, 2022 by Jan Herman

And is it the most rigorous piece of lyrical whimsy in the American poetry canon? I think so.

The poem, “structured by six vertical progressions,” was first published in “Underground,” in 1966. It appeared the following year in “An Anthology of Concrete Poetry,” published by Something Else Press, and most recently appears in “A Something Else Reader.”

do you remember

when I loved soft pink nights
and you hated hard blue valleys
and I kissed mellow red potatoes
and you loved livid green seagulls
and I hated soft yellow dewdrops
and you kissed hard pink oysters …

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