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I believe in the power of parody to weaken negative emotions. My father used parody to show acceptance and forgiveness ( Read more... )

I've never been good at identifying lyrics in songs, but now that I sing in public, I construct an emotional story to remember and deliver the lyrics. Now I can't help but find the emotional stories in songs, and I can't listen to I've Got To Use My Imagination by Gladys Knight & The Pips without crying like I've broken my leg. And it used to just ( Read more... )

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I found this poem in my friend's ee cummings book 23 years ago. I visited him last weekend and found the book again. http://www.basilwhite.com/images/eecummings-TheBoysIMeanAreNotRefined.jpg

I make art to say what I feel and what things mean to me. I share what I make to find other people who understand what I say, we lonely few.

Political cartoon: http://images2.dailykos.com/i/user/121704/takeandgive550.png My comment: http://www.dailykos.com/comments/1086027/45911898#c17?

Patrick Star has the right attitude.

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Behavioral Economics Cheat Sheet http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/behavioral-economics-for-dummies-cheat-sheet.navId-410449.html

This game called art, what is it? Am not sure I know. It seems that realism, a style of saying nothing very well; and Modernism, a style of saying nothing very, very, badly. There must be a middle. - Jay Hall Conaway, journal entry, Arkell Museum at Canajoharie Leave a comment