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“Looking Up”
After the Customs Service vacated the building in 1983, it served several other federal agencies, including the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. It’s now an apartment building. But on closer inspection, particularly eyeing the formidable black eagle above the entrance, one can imagine certain cinematic uses, such as a filming backdrop for “The Man inContinue reading ““Looking Up””
Potent Quotables:
“Old friends cannot be created out of hand. Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle, having planted an acorn in the morning, to expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of the oak… One by one, our comrades slipContinue reading “Potent Quotables:”
“The sun it shines outside the lines…”
An old friend sent me a coloring book, basically because I’m still in grade school creatively. I decided to buck convention and stretch the boundaries a bit, with an assist from Rene’ Magritte….
“Dead End”
“Radio Sputnik”
“Hey, Virgil, Stoneman’s cavalry squirrel-fucked us again…”
(from Wikipedia) George Stoneman, Jr was a US Army cavalry officer and politician of the Civil War era. Though born in New York, he ultimately settled out West and served as Governor of California from 1883 to 1887. His roommate at West Point was Stonewall Jackson — so many ironies and cross-connections to that incestuousContinue reading ““Hey, Virgil, Stoneman’s cavalry squirrel-fucked us again…””