Monthly Archives: May 2009

Another Day, Another Traffic Cone 17

My second-favorite William Eggleston quote: “I like [my images] to be at once like jokes and like lessons.” My favorite Eggleston quote is on the relation between art and art criticism, but that’s for another day…
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Ratatouille, By Mara L.

Thanks to everyone who wrote to me about Watership Down?clearly, the movie has devoted fans! And someone pointed out that it doesn’t only reference Genesis and Homer, but also Darwin. Witness how the animals are already around before they grow their survival tools?teeth and claws and so on. Point taken. Anyway, someone else asked me [...]
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The Powerpoint Crusade

If you ride around on a horse all day, with a sword in your hand and a cross painted on your shirt, you may be especially appalled by the design skills of Donald Rumsfeld’s Pentagon. See his Bible verse riddled “Worldwide Intelligence Update” cover sheets to the President in GQ’s already notorious slideshow, here.
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