I signed in here to check my dear friend Dhani's journal (hi!), and saw that I've been friended by two fine individuals, namely Kris and Jason. Nice to see you ( Read more... )

Mondrian!

Piet Mondrian - THAT's the "French artist" with the stark, simple paintings I was looking for. (He's French by choice; Dutch by birth.)

Not Pierre Monteaux the conductor, and certainly not Vasarely and the Op-Art movement. I was mistaken by some misleading info. I actually have next to no interest in Op-Art. The term I was looking ( Read more... )

Had an idea today, sitting at work, realizing I'm not an administrator by any means, but knowing the kind of legal job I'm good at is not going to jump at the chance to hire a new jack like myself ( Read more... )

It's not even vague depression anymore. It's seething rage, crushing despair and paralyzing discomfort. Every moment I sit in this office is one more moment spent in a place where I don't belong. I feel doom and dread when I wake up, unwilling to sacrifice the comfort of home for the day of embarrassment that awaits me. When I get there, I just ( Read more... )

Hillary Clinton's latest attacks on Obama have managed to make me like her even less than I did before ( Read more... )

I recommended a bunch of jazz records to my friend Megan today. She's just getting into it. It felt good. I pointed her in the direction of Coltrane, Shorter, Mingus, McLean, Cherry, Gale, Ayler, and Coleman, among others... as well as Tony Williams Lifetime and Return to Forever and Mahavishnu and Sonny Sharrock. Just the act of talking about ( Read more... )

It's strange: I wake up every morning with a crushing feeling of depression that bubbles to the surface now and again throughout the day. By the time I go to bed, it's completely dissipated; when I wake up, it's fully returned ( Read more... )

I once saw a painting by an artist who I believe had "Pierre" in his name that was a very pleasing conglomeration of quadrilaterals in solid colors. Very primeval, and very modern all at once. For the life of me, I cannot find the painting nor his name, but I assume he is affiliated with what is known as "Op Art." Anyway, I changed my journal's ( Read more... )

Not sure why some people don't like me. Is it because of my eyes? Sometimes they twitch, squint, bulge or squeeze. Is it because I'm outgoing? Do people find that creepy? I know, for some people, it's because I laugh really loudly. They find that embarrassing ( Read more... )

Report: Ohio Inmate DNA Testing FlawedCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio's DNA testing program for inmates seeking to prove their innocence is deeply flawed, with police routinely discarding evidence after trials and court-ordered tests never getting done, a newspaper reported Sunday ( Read more... )