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  • Let’s celebrate! My blog is 20 years old

    Let’s celebrate! My blog is 20 years old

  • Angelo Dilena: The Car Whisperer

    Angelo Dilena: The Car Whisperer

    On Sunday, January 30, 2022, my brother-in-law Angelo Dilena, 70, was one of 456 Americans to die from Covid-19. He was vaxxed and boosted but had numerous co-morbidities that made him especially susceptible to the virus. My sister was widowed in 1993 and married Angelo in 2003. He really brought the sparkle back to her…

  • Review: DISPLACED – A Book of Photography by Ara Oshagan

    Review: DISPLACED – A Book of Photography by Ara Oshagan

    Reviewed by Mat Gleason Ara Oshagan is a poetic photographer merging the magical happenstance of cinema verite with the elegance of a great still life painter. His new book DISPLACED (Kehrer, 2021) is a return to the Armenian enclaves in Lebanon from whence he fled – a refugee – more than forty years ago. ©Ara…

  • Roland Reiss – The Man, The Friend, The Artist

    Sitting around in the café most afternoons at the Brewery Art Colony in the latter half of the 1990s, Roland Reiss didn’t exactly hold court. He was too good a listener to do that. He enjoyed the give and take and would seize upon whatever subject in which a person was an expert. Over a…

  • They Can’t Cancel The Autonomous

    Here is the deal about cancel culture, you only get canceled by two types of people: 1. The people who already hate you 2. The people who only liked you because of the power thing (media platform, institution, social position, prestigious job, lucrative employment, etc.) with which you are/were affiliated. The people who love you…

  • Dutch Master Pizza Lament

    Someone posted a link to the LA Times article about the bulldozing of the old LACMA campus. It is in full swing. I don’t want to read the article, I don’t want to link to the article, I don’t want to see the pictures. I saw one and it made me angry and it made…