What should we come to … if political denunciation is to be turned without check against art?
What should we come to … if political denunciation is to be turned without check against art?
What should we come to … if political denunciation is to be turned without check against art?
“It’s all almost too stereotypical,” Shore reflects. “A 1930s-style military parade as a performative assertion of the Führerprinzip,” she says, referring to the doctrine established by Adolf Hitler, locating...
There’s a lot of debate these days about how “polarized” the country is. If you were to base your conclusions simply on perusing the list of new non-fiction titles at the Ann Arbor District Library (or...
What fun the Fair was! Lots of good food … crowds of strangers carrying artsy things on sticks … fiddling boys playing for tips … an earnest young woman pressing a brochure into my hand that proclaimed...
The most frequent conversation I overheard at the Fair was along the lines of the following: TEENAGER: I wanna go hooooome! MOM: No, we’re not going home. Or: KID: I don’t wanna waaaaalk anymore! MOM:...
First, it started with a first-person account of a « white woman’s scary encounter with swarthy scary Ay-rabs »: It seems that 14 scary swarthy men did mighty suspicious things on a flight to L.A. The...
« Dear America »,
‘On November 2nd, please elect a new government.
Signed, Your Friends in Canada …’
Thanks to Steve for posting the photos. The one of the spray-painted “ART NOT WAR” sign was actually not “technically” part of the fair(s); it’s been in that bus shelter on South U for...
I guess I’m still shaking my head over the blurb in the Ann Arbor News police blotter yesterday: A motorist who stopped to allow ducks to cross the road in Ann Arbor Saturday evening said a passenger of a nearby...
We took a very nice five-mile roundtrip to the library today, the first time we had done a double ride together. The M30 is rougher and tougher on me than the Bobcat, but performed fine, wonky crank and all. I need to...
Much more temperate today than it’s been the past few days. I enjoy the sunlight and the warmth as long as there’s a dip in the humidity and there’s a breeze, or even a wind. I had lunch at...
The announcer deriding the American pronunciation of the word “soccer” (“sah-kuh”), a word which is already in itself apparently an object of derision because the word the rest of the world uses...
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