Happy Father’s Day
From My Old Man To Yours…
Agnes Martin Retrospective at LACMA reviewed…
ART REVIEW: Agnes Martin show at LACMA better minimal painter than all the dudes. You gotta be in a certain mood for this show, though. You gotta want to get your elitist on, that’s it, you check your populism at the door on this one. But I watched Robert Irwin putt-putt thru the LACMA Galleries …
My Merle Haggard Story
So I took this girl to Vegas and I really wanted to impress her. This was 1995. We checked into the Frontier Hotel because they were centrally located on the strip and had the best rates. That place is long gone. Not the most lavish, but the best location to see as many different things …
ETERNAL SHADOW (The Long Sunset of Walter Hopps)
There is a picture somewhere of the day I met Walter Hopps. It is me and Walter, Michael McCall and Steve Seemayer. It was Seemayer’s camera and I think he handed it to the security guard to shoot the picture. The pic is somewhere in a box, ine day I will dig it up and …
Car Alarms
There is a car alarm going off way far away. I can barely hear it. Maybe it is a mile away. It sounds like a bird chirping. When I was a kid this one guy we thought was a goofball got a car alarm. It was explained to me that if the car was broken …
My Sixth Street Bridge Story
Well I was thinking back and thinking back even further and I drove past it every day for the past few years and now its gonna be gone and I kept thinking that I had a good story about the Sixth Street bridge, maybe not the best story but certainly better than all the maudlin …
Mark Ehrman Sent Me On My Way…
Echoing the timing of Darby Crash dying the day before the shocking murder of John Lennon, author Mark Ehrman died from a longterm illness the day before David Bowie’s passing earlier this month. I barely knew Mark Ehrman but he wrote an article about me that proved quite critical in my personal and professional development. …
Well you’re just too clever now, aren’t you…
Another “friend” on FaceBook has a maudlin rant about leaving FaceBook, here is his phone number, none of you are real unless you contact him the old fashioned way, even though phones are not face to face. I bet in 1909 there was some guy who pulled out the cord and announced he was sick …
That One Gallery
Remember that one gallery? They call it that because they can’t remember. And in a way they don’t want to remember. They remember who showed there, they rattle off the names and if you were there you remember those shows and probably which pieces sold, if anything did, and there was that one show you …
Rabbi Uber
I had an uber driver today who was a rabbi. I knew it was going to be a unique ride because when the app announced the driver it was my very first “Shmuel”. I’ve had lots of Hectors and a few Fernandos and plenty of Brandons but this was a unique name among the roster. …
Ellsworth Kelly, Vampire Slayer
Ellsworth Kelly posing at his Gemini GEL opening, August, 2001. Ellsworth Kelly died Sunday. His death came just a few days short of making it to 2016 but the math will be accurate when you look at the dates on the museum placard next to his painting. His unique, groundbreaking art is owned by almost …
Uncle Teddy 1948 – 2015
Uncle Teddy died this morning. He rotted away near the end but we were all most shocked that he lived this long. But he really did live, like a fire in a dry forest on an endless night, he roared in all directions. This guy had a native intellect that defied high school, which he …