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Did you know that some cactus makes fruit? I asked the kids in the neighborhood if the cactus in my yard was edible as passersby are not shy of hacking the living hell out of it. They pointed to the fruits on the cactus that is deeper in my yard, that people cannot hack-and-dash on…

One of my many nephews was born the day John Belushi died. Well, he got married today, in a near-perfect ceremony and reception. The bride and groom are honeymooning in Sonoma/Napa so we got them a gift certificate for the Indian Springs Spa up there, just in case they feel the need to take a…

Just a note for you artists:If you have an answering machine that does not have your name and the new exhibitions director of the gallery has a long, detailed message for you, if your answering machine does not identify itself as YOU, well, you may never get the message because, uh, who wants to leave…

I don’t expect ANYONE beyond my girlfriend to watch the entire 35 minute interview (note: scroll down for the video screen) that was edited into the Ovation Network documentary Art or Not taped at my day job as a gallery curator/art critic, but I DO trash street-charlatan Shepperd Fairey in the first segment, so you…

I don’t know how the new Bush administration hiring guidelines will be affecting me, but these kids cleaned up my yard today and did a great job – for $20 for all of them (and one brother not pictured) and a sherbert Scooby-Doo push-up each

So the gallery’s website is entirely done in Flash. What this means is that the people we have hired to give the site a basic scrub, they cannot make any changes without all of the original files. Voluminous to say the least. I tried to put the files together thinking I could burn a disc…