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Election 2024: Image World (3)

Whoever you are, dear reader, I guarantee you this: Depending on your age, you will see Trump’s Georgia mugshot hundreds and possibly thousands of times over the course of the rest of your life. T-shirts and coffee mugs, book jackets and magazine covers, print and online news articles, his eventual obituaries … lodged irrevocably in your memory. Get used to it. […]

Straight Outta Stone Ridge: Sumer is Icumen In

Evidence showing that Covid-19 enters the brain and causes dementia, especially in older brains provides ample reason to err on the side of caution, regardless of whether masking up entails experiencing head shakes and smirks and side-eye and even aggressive verbal snark from a-holes in the supermarket. […]

Springing Forward: Bits & Pieces

Ironic that in the case of Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith an otherwise astute member of the court’s liberal minority, Justice Elena Kagan, should offer a surprising arrogant and patronizing dissent that pretends to art-historical savvy while merely parroting postmodern “theory” and art-market rationales. […]

Election 2024: Image World (2)

The only disappointment on the otherwise momentous and joyous occasion of Donald Trump’s first-ever indictment on criminal charges? NYC D.A. Alvin Bragg decided, presumably for strategic reasons, to forego not just public documentation of the arrest and processing but also the production and distribution of the standard mug shot of the accused. […]

Straight Outta Stone Ridge: The Moles of Summer

For the first time in over half a century I have (a) my very own resident groundhog but (b) no designated local season prognosticator of the woodchuck persuasion. Hence a dilemma I faced this past February: Who to believe about the advent of spring? […]