Author Archives: Stephen Futterer

“… all the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a loftyContinue reading “Potent Quotables:”

MoMA Gallery Label (from website): “In 1954, the Castle Bravo hydrogen bomb—the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the United States—was tested at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. That year, Baskin, who often explored the effects of mortality and destruction on the human form in his sculptures and works on paper, produced aContinue reading ““Confrontational Art””

Eat your cœur out, people. We are moving, part time anyway, to Paris! We took le plunge and bought a small (Ha! It’s 5000 sq feet with parquet floors and a private elevator, as well as a champagne fountain) pied-à-terre on the Rive Gauche with a view of the Eiffel Tower. It’s 3 BR, 3.5 bathContinue reading ““BIG NEWS!!””

My family is reliable for several things. One is novelty gifts at Christmas time. I recently became the proud owner of a pair of NERF basketball hoops (that I openly wanted) and a Bob Ross Christmas tree ornament. The shark glasses were from two years before. The second thing is intermittent reminders that for manyContinue reading ““Shark Curaçao””