This week, I will be celebrating my one-year anniversary of this blog, by taking a look back over some highlights (at least, as far as I’m concerned). If we go all the way back to the beginning, I ran this site some years back, but let it go in the Fall of 2000. In fact, [...]
Eats in Savannah
Lots of good food in Savannah. Here we see Sweet Leaf Smokery, a terrific little place that doesn’t seem to get a lot of attention. I had a great pulled pork sandwich which came with this coleslaw that had julienned apple in it. It was accompanied by some classic Southern sweet tea. It’s pretty typical [...]
The eye of the beholder
As I’ve mentioned before, it’s always fascinating to go back in time and see what people said on previous occasions. After passions have cooled, and with the clarity of hindsight, one can often be slightly mystified by the initial reaction to things. It also helps to look at how we behave today, since human beings [...]
U.S. Goth
In the current issue of The Weekly Standard, Paul Cantor — who writes for the magazine and is a professor of English at the University of Virginia — reviews the book American Gothic: A Life of America’s Most Famous Painting by Steven Biel. Cantor’s review is useful because he fills out details about the painting’s [...]
“Jack you’ll never lack if you can quack like a duck.”
I’ve always thought it was kind of cool the way Terry Teachout refers to the “Teachout Museum,” which is what he calls his personal collection of art. This is a potentially pretentious sort of reference, but he makes it work. This past weekend, I was shopping in an antique store and I saw this painting. [...]
Cold and fuzzy.
The work of artist Luke Chueh has been brought to my attention. He combines anime-style fuzzy animals with a pervading sense of doom. It would be fascinating to see his acrylic & ink pieces up close, to pick up the detail. In addition to the work above, titled The Soundtrack (To My Life), I was [...]
Painting by numbers
This is kind of cool: the artist Coop is blogging the creation of a new painting (via BoingBoing).