Pierre Huyghe’s Roof Garden Commission at the Met Museum in NYC.
Pierre Huyghe’s Roof Garden Commission at the Met Museum in NYC.
Highlights from the Met Museum, Pierre Huyghe’s Roof Garden Commission
Highlights of Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960-1971, at MoMA in NYC
It ends when its covered with leaves
It ends when the leaves whither
It ends when it turns to ash
And a new vine will grow ___________
Yinka Shonibare, MBE’s “Refugee Astronaut,” 2015
Yinka Shonibare, MBE’s “Refugee Astronaut,” 2015
Yinka Shonibare, MBE’s “Refugee Astronaut,” 2015
Yinka Shonibare, MBE’s “Refugee Astronaut,” 2015
Haiku movie reviews, May 2015
Ex Machina (2015)
A hot bot twists minds
As it takes the Turing test
High-tech interlude
A view from my day job: One of Arturo Herrera’s latest paintings
Here’s something to brighten your morning.
An untitled painting by Arturo Herrera, which was made on a used book.
Haiku movie reviews, April 2015
Big Hero 6 (2014)
A Disney-esque death
Of a heroic brother
Gives way to bedlam
Jersey Boys (2014)
Cops don’t kill these thugs
Valli’s sweet voice lifts them up
Tale worked best on stage
An Ohio Woman in the Philippines, published 1904
In memory of Medill professor Bob McClory
“So I’m thinking it’s either a Pulitzer in six years, or a mental hospital for you.”
That was Bob McClory, a journalism professor of mine who died last Friday at age 82. Or at least that’s what I remember him saying at the end-of-the-quarter meeting about my writing and final grade when I was a journalism undergrad student at Medill at Northwestern.
He thought my continual use of quotation ledes ventured onto the less sane side of decision-making. What I heard though in that sentence was: I see what you’re doing. I don’t always get it or agree with you, but I believe in you. He probably said the same thing to lots of other students.
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Haiku movie reviews, March 2015
Song of the Sea (2014)
Selkie seeks her voice
Her brother’s kind of a jerk
The spirits are saints?
Vanity Fair (2004)
Novel: No hero
On Film: Reese Witherspoon stars
Story? Doesn’t work
2 Guns (2013)
Rat-a-tat-tat — bang!
Two big stars come out shooting
The bodies pile up
Fury (2014)
I watched this tank flick
Riding on an Amtrak train
— steel machines roll on
