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Monday, March 30, 2015
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
The Thought For Today
"John McCain was on “The View.” And I thought, Good Lord — hasn’t this man endured enough torture?" - David Letterman
The Hard Truth From Orlando
Ponchatoula
Strawberry Festival
And
this is my take over the big brouha over the poster image for this
year's Ponchatoula Strawberry Festival depicting two impressionistic
black shapes of children in white clothing with red mouths and
holding strawberry baskets: Seems that some folks see the painting
exclusively as racist, reminiscent of early stereotypical depictions
of African-American children as "pickaninnies." These same
folks say it was an insensitive selection because the festival
committee is primarily composed of white members and that's why they
chose this image.
Well,
I guess some hyper-sensitive folks could see it that way; the same
folks who insist that having a Confederate flag automatically means
you're a racist, that all black people are persecuted and profiled by
police for no valid reason, that all early American folk art
depicting African-Americans is stereotypical and must be labeled as
such and never displayed, anyone who puts on blackface and plays a
minstrel is a bigot, no matter the context.
I
have a solution. Never paint any figure of a person as black unless
they're in foreign or primitive clothing to show they're not
African-AMERICAN. We need to follow the rules set by these masters
of political correctness and pretend that African-Americans have no
history in this country but one of discrimination and failure.
Black human forms painted by anyone who isn't black are automatically
to be deemed stereotypical and should have no place in American
mainstream art. We can all just accept that hip-hop and gangsta
rap, pants on the ground, and street-gang graffiti are the end-all
and be-all of appropriate African-American contributions to art and
let it go at that.
So
for the next strawberry festival, make it a white figure in a black
dress -- and then see if all these same super-sensitive critics
scream that you're ignoring historical contributions by
African-Americans. You're not going to please them no matter what
you do, so scrape them off and move on.
Florida Cracker
(The poster: http://imgick.nola.com/home/nola-media/width620/img/entertainment_impact_festivals/photo/17317425-standard.jpg)
(The poster: http://imgick.nola.com/home/nola-media/width620/img/entertainment_impact_festivals/photo/17317425-standard.jpg)
Friday, March 20, 2015
Thursday, March 19, 2015
The Thought For Today
"[Charles Dickens was] the bravest man who ever lived. He fathered ten children before they became tax deductions." - W.C.Fields
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
The Thought For Today
"You should do your own car repairs. It's an easy way to save money and possibly maim yourself for life." - Dave Barry
Monday, March 16, 2015
Friday, March 13, 2015
The Thought For Today
"Back in the old days, most families were close-knit. Grown children and their parents continued to live together, under the same roof, sometimes in the same small, crowded room, year in and year out, until they died, frequently by strangulation." - Dave Barry
Thursday, March 12, 2015
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
The Thought For Today
Sanders, who will be a senior at Waltrip High School in the fall, already has seen an improvement in his football skills. Before his surgery, Sanders could run fast and lifted weights to stay in shape. But his football coach, Anthony Zuccarini, said his football catching skills left much to be desired. "He couldn't catch a cold, buck naked in a snowstorm," Zuccarini said.
Monday, March 09, 2015
The Thought For Today
"I'm desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets." - Dave Edison
Sunday, March 08, 2015
Rare Book Room Includes British Library Works
Rare Book Room is a special site because these are digitized pictures of the actual pages of the books. Project Gutenberg also is wonderful, however only the texts are available there. Rare Book Room has so far scanned just 400 books but they include rare volumes from the British Library, the Bodleian Library, the University of Edinburgh Library, and the National Library of Scotland that we previously would have no way of seeing except in person. Great site!
Saturday, March 07, 2015
For Bibliophiles Everywhere
This nifty little video about printing visually shows the difference between hot type and cold type. We can design our own pages these days, but we can't make them look three-dimensional like this. Great stuff!
Friday, March 06, 2015
Thursday, March 05, 2015
The Thought For Today
"Admit it, sport-utility-vehicle owners! It's shaped a little differently, but it's a station wagon! And you do not drive it across rivers! You drive it across the Wal-Mart parking lot!" - Dave Barry
Sunday, March 01, 2015
On the Evils of Girl Scout Cookies
Oldish but still funny, I know some of you are addicted, especially to Thin Mints. Herewith, writer Jennifer Weiner's sad tale of addiction. Read, learn.
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