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Category Archives: USA
The Ballad of Holland Island
I recently had the opportunity to road trip along the Mid-Atlantic coast of the U.S. in the states of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. The highlight was a visit to Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, on Assateague Island, which has stunning beaches, … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Film, History, Music, USA
Tagged Chesapeake Bay, Climate Change, Maryland, Virginia
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Old Swimmers From Old Places
River Roads by Carl Sandburg Let the crows go by hawking their caw and caw. They have been swimming in midnights of coal mines somewhere. Let ’em hawk their caw and caw. Let the woodpecker drum and drum on a … Continue reading
When Museumgoers Gotta Go
Over the years I’ve visited hundreds of museums in dozens of countries and I’ve seen my share of museum bathrooms. Many are unmemorable institutional facilities, but many are worthy design destinations. The American Alliance of Museums polled their members on their favorite … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Museums, USA
Tagged Art Museums, Baltimore Museum of Art, Mass MoCA, SFMOMA, Vienna
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The Very Definition of Irony
Even if you do not live in North America you are probably aware that the United States has been experiencing a wave of book bannings and attempts by a vocal neo-Fascist Christian Nationalist minority to censor both library books … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Freedom of Speech, History, Libraries, USA, Writing
Tagged censorship, racism, Texas
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The Swimmer
I’ve just returned from a short road trip that took me to barrier island towns on the Atlantic coast from Delaware to Virginia. While I was staying in the lovely town of Fenwick Island in Delaware, I noticed the same … Continue reading
Meaning is a shaky edifice
Salman Rushdie // “But human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capable only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase. Meaning is a shaky edifice we … Continue reading
Bookstore Tourism: Secret Bookshop Brooklyn
Hidden within an iconic New York City bodega in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood you can find the newly launched Burnt Books. No secret passwords or handshakes are required to browse their stock of secondhand and collectible books; you just need find … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookstore Tourism, Tourism, USA
Tagged bodegas, Bookselling, Brooklyn, Greenpoint, New York City
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A Night at the Garden
As we face an existential crisis which challenges whether the United States will remain a democracy or sink into a cesspit of neo-Fascist, Christian White Nationalist repression, it is worth remembering our history and examining how close we came in … Continue reading
The Parable of the Blind
“The Parable of the Blind” by William Carlos Williams This horrible but superb painting the parable of the blind without a red in the composition shows a group of beggars leading each other diagonally downward across the canvas from one … Continue reading
Posted in Art, USA, Writing
Tagged American Poets, Painting, Poetry, William Carlos Williams
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Sunday Funnies
Posted in Animation, Art, Books, Tourism, USA
Tagged Cartoons, Comics, George Orwell
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