Author: DXO
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New Posters, Austin, SXSW, March 2018
I was in Austin last week for SXSW Interactive. As is my wont, I purchased and otherwise obtained a number of posters.
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Current Book Projects, March 2018
I have been down-low working on a number of book projects, and I want to list them here, if for no other reason than it will force me to work on them harder. Recovery / Hospice: A Memoir This is a chronological account of my mother’s death, covering the 8 weeks from when she fell…
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Art Reaction: Leroi Jones and His Family, Bob Thompson, 1964
Babylon Revisited was the first poem I ever memorized, and loved, and could recite at will. It was horrible /bile- full but the words were beautiful. They flowed from a mouth. Impossible to speak them gentle or slow, so many near-rhymes and walls and spits.
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Silencing Republican Women in the Course of Treason
The Mueller investigation is plowing ahead, and one center of focus is on the Republican National Convention platform item that was watered down to be more favorable to Russia. Diana Denman, a female Republican delegate from San Antonio who made the clause, was puzzled. So was her colleague, gay Republican Rachel Hoff, who was also…
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Hot Springs, Arkansas: The Glory of Federal Power
Last week S-L and I were in Hot Springs, Arkansas for the anniversary of our wedding. The main riff for us was a mega-spa situation at Quawpaw. But the trip also made me grateful of federal power. The Hot Springs National Park is a towering example of federal stewardship of shared resources, its fecund collaboration with municipal units…