Window-shopping on Buy Nothing Day

Trickle down time

The Day after Thanksgiving in the USA

Buy Nothing Day

Some call it Black Friday,

of even African-American Friday

a day of both dissent and

of excessive materialism

Grand Ave in Oakland

The Day of the Dead

and the death blow election

hung like an unhappy specter

over the city

The seasons change

in front of my eyes

Shock and awe

the first strike is the deepest

Hey I'd rather have voted
for Snake Pleskin
than the putative "winner"

If my son came home

 looking like this...

I'd hide his car keys

 That's more like it, babe

The Europeans gave the natives

their first drink

And from them the Europeans

learned to smoke tobacco,

A mutual exchange

of Trojan Horses

Stop the petro-monsters

from destroying life,

Clean air and water are

 our most basic rights

 Grand traverses

the head of the estuary

 Days when you

seem to

drift away

Life is transmuted

transsubtantiation

Unattainable

Glamour doll

 Even looks like Dennis Hopper

 The trees rustle

a rattling laugh



The Tarot
was taciturn

Turning to Alchemy

and things that explode

 Old Man Winter

was then on his way

Beyond here

lie the Dead

25 November 2017

Berkeley Arts Orbit

Almost typed obit

instead of orbit

Colorful folks in transit

Coming to Berkeley

 What the ...?

 Oh, that's right

1967 was fifty years ago,

The Establishment feels safe

co-opting the cultural revolution

A big banana split of LGBTetc.

public relations is useful too

LED Magritte

Bongo carpet

Bongo Burger

 

Warhol skull

by RAY

Warhol skull original

It was requested that

I abstain from photographing

in this gallery at this point

Fair use, Andy Foundation

My image is a new work

A lot of Asian art

here nowadays

Serene pose

 Folk art pet shop

accessorize your animal

Starting to dematerialize

 Beach boys' big dick contest

Nairobi gay bar

works by a contemporary queer

 African artist

Another treatment of this painting,

the beach boys are male prostitutes

My treatment of this Buddha

resulting in a more arresting image

than did the artifact in person

This earth artist based her work

on her hour-glass figure

Forming 3-D impact impressions of her body

some in sand washed away by waves

many of a more lasting fabrication

I was again asked

to desist in photographing her gallery,

I think she fell or was thrown

from a tall building in NYC

 

From Goddard's "Sympathy for the Devil 1 + 1"

a film of the Rolling Stones recording the song

Scarcely shown when it was first released,

we once drove from Amherst

 to Providence to see it

A riparian adventure

Bringing it back

concealed inside my skull

The Battle of Algiers

I check the street before

 leaving my abode

Magenta squash

 Patronize your local

anachronism

BOWIE

billboard on Telegraph

 Grigory Rasputin

the Russian aristocrat who shot him

claimed he rose again from the deathlike

so the shot him again and buried him post haste

 Day after the wildest rain storm

that lasted for days,

the flowers and bees

 were back in business

Curbside folk art

right beneath the bee bushes

 Rendering of the forthcoming BART plaza

Looks like a rather large outdoor latrine

in the making

 

Winter trees

in Civic center park

The high school drama department

paints the title of their current offering

on the wall of the school,

An old-fashioned play

from the previous century

Dreary days

MLK

along the High School

Uh-oh

the much-ballyhooed

BAMPFA LED billboard

is on the fritz

January-February 2017