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Happy 80th Birthday: Was Wolfman Jack “The Force” ?
Happy 80th Birthday: Was Wolfman Jack “The Force” ? This Sunday would have been Wolfman Jack’s 80th birthday. Brooklyn-born Robert Weston Smith, aka Wolfman Jack, passed away at age 57 in the Summer of 1995 almost forgotten after a period of blazing hot celebrity ubiquity the likes of which no deejay before or since has…
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Wish You Were Here
Saturday night was our first official art opening since Labor Day weekend. 125 days, wow. So much has changed since then. It was a good, consistent crowd all night and everyone got to see a great show. Thanks to Loren Philip for organizing a sweet selection of painters. One thing on all of our minds…
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Only in SoCal…
I was driving East on Slauson heading out to the suburbs on the evening of January 2. I decided to take Telegraph out instead of the 5 South. Just as I was under the 5, in the right lane ready to turn right at the next light – two cop cars with their red and…
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Boyle Heights: Art Academia’s Proxy War
What if the protests against the galleries in Boyle Heights are not really protests about gentrification. What if they are protesting the very existence of commercial art galleries? Who would be against galleries? Well, absent the totally fallible “art galleries cause gentrification” argument, there remains one subset of people who are against commercial art galleries.…
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Jack In The Box Tacos
So the Wall Street Journal had a salute to Jack In The Box's tacos today and it brought back a flood of memories of bygone days when I didn't give a fucking thought to tomorrow… aka, my mis-spent youth. http://www.wsj.com/articles/americans-eat-554-million-jack-in-the-box-tacos-a-year-and-no-one-knows-why-1483465285 The fact is they are two for ninety-nine-cents. there is no better deal on Earth.…
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The Art World Versus Middle Class Values
Almost all art world doctrine boils down to rejecting the values of the middle class. When you hear the term "BOURGEOISE" it basically means the middle class. The people who have to get up and go to work so they can support a family that can thrive without ever really getting to the point where…