image link blubbered lips, invisible hips, hands built on a model of Ken’s* privileged perspectives, racist directives, capitalist common sense spill oil on pristeen, frack gas from the clean, “nature’s my b****, are you dense?” plant factoids with mimes in impressionable minds, chasm grows – there is no more fence. Word of the Day…
Category: politics
The Missing Images of Chinese Immigrants — The Paris Review
The Paris Review always has interesting, thought-provoking articles. It’s probably the first time I’ve seen the term whitewashing used this way; the term certainly fits. One of the beauties of the electronic age is that anyone with access to it HAS A VOICE. There will be no more whitewashing for those with eyes to see!…
Day 2 — Jimmy*
image link I worked for many years in the juvenile court. Jimmy is a composite. The worker may leave the job, but the children will never leave the worker. Tanka: An unrhymed Japanese poem consisting of five lines of 5/7/5/7/7. Tanka is generally written in two parts. The first three lines is one part, and…
K’un, the great fish
Ellen Goodman interview of Ai Weiwei, including early life and going up to the present: Exhibition now showing in L.A.: Exhibition now showing in L.A. 9/27/18 L.A. Times article on Ai Weiwei’s exhibition now showing in L.A. Ai Weiwei drifting – art, awareness and the refugee crisis | DW Documentary: K’un, languidly…
Zero
image link Word of the Day Challenge — rubric BILL COSBY INITIAL PRISON THERAPY RUBRIC Date: ASAP Quarterly Updates for the Next ____Years Report #: 1 OBJECTIVE EXCELLENT 2 pts. COMPETENT 1 pt. NEEDS WORK 0 pts. SCORE Knowledge/ Understanding 20% I understand that my cycle of drugging then sexually victimizing others is wrong and…
Gaslighter
image link An orange billboard, festooned with strands of yellow straw, designed to swivel on a point greased with rancid lard. Gaslighter * He tweets it out at night The mean and callous type Something’s new, always different from before. Judging and spinning Ooh, maga’s cheer and lefties running for the door He flips the…
Ai WeiWei
Chinese artist, Ai WeiWei, has been known as a rabble rouser in China, New York, and across the planet. Last summer, we were fortunate enough to have several of his pieces on exhibit at the Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids. Since then I’ve developed an interest in his life, political history,…
Tao-Talk 