The fact that Musk is able to realistically make this offer says something significant about the concentration of wealth in America.
Trump is setting a high bar with his typically hyperbolic threat to deploy ICE agents to airports, “where they will do Security like no one has ever seen before.” Really? I was once held at gunpoint in a windowless room by airport security in Saudi Arabia.
Following up on my NH-acquired cold, last night I started feeling cold. I just couldn’t get warm then, just as I was going to bed, the uncontrollable shivering hit. It pulled a muscle in my thigh so hard that this morning I had to rub it to walk without a limp. I was hoping to see Project Hail Mary today, but that isn’t going to happen.
This week’s issue of The New Yorker has an ad from the Gagosian Gallery, promoting an exhibition of what appear to be abstract, rather than representational, paintings by Roy Lichtenstein.
It’s interesting the works come from the Lichtenstein family collection. Have they never before been offered for sale? They’re nothing like the so-called Pop Art paintings that made Lichtenstein famous. Those were based on comic book panels he had selected, many of them from DC titles in the romance genre.
This is a good opportunity to watch the documentary Whaam! Blam! Roy Lichtenstein and the Art of Appropriation. It was based largely on the research of David Barsalou, who graduated from Westfield State a year ahead of me. Our art history instructor was Barbara Harris, who is now a friend of mine.
As you can see, I can’t embed the video. If I could embed it, there would be no commercials. Sorry to say, you’re on your own.
Last Sunday, at the Funspot arcade in Laconia, New Hampshire, I was amongst many families with children. So I wasn’t surprised when, on Wednesday, I felt a sore throat coming on. Now there’s sneezing and coughing to go along with it. My usual temperature is about 97.7. It’s presently 98.8.
