In the summer of 1993 I was getting ready to begin my senior year of high school. Like many others, I had chosen to take an art class as one of my electives. As you might know back then and still probably today art is taught in large classrooms with all the students sharing tables and working on similar assignments. However, I was lucky. I was the first students at my high school to take Art IV AP and since
Feb 26
Superman is everywhere these days and I’m not just talking about the upcoming new film. This noise hasn’t just come from actors, comic books or bands like the Flaming Lips. But strangely enough athletes. Yes. Pro athletes must not have wanted to be left out. Have you noticed that many of them want to be Superman? There’s Shaq who years back got a large superman tattoo on his upper arm, Dwight Howard that wore a cape at an all star
Feb 25
Bob Dylan is a great musician, maybe one of the best songwriters of our time. Lady GaGa, though much younger, is also a great musician. Even though the two couldn’t seem more different in styles of music they both share a reluctance to be defined. Dylan’s reluctance is more with his music. Over the years he’s dabbled in every rock related genre imaginable. He’s put out country albums, sang christmas music, gone religious, and created a firestorm when he went
Dec 10
In 2006 Saturday Night Live started running a news gag called “Really!?!” with Amy Poehler and Seth Myers. In the bit they made fun of celebrities for making dumb choices. As funny as it may have been then it’s amazing that six years later people still walk around today saying “really?” when they want to remark on something dumb. So many people talk this way that it’s almost refreshing when someone doesn’t say it. The same can be said for many
Nov 12