My Own Private “Traveling Bernie Sanders Selections”,
January 21st, 2021
Aloha Bernie Sanders. He was in Honolulu.
About the Mittens.
The mittens were created by Vermont teacher Jane Ellis. Ellis made the mittens from repurposed wool sweaters and lined them with fleece from recycled plastic bottles.
The Meaning of the Mittens: Five Possibilities
(Bernie levitating at Guggenheim Museum in New York)
See more Bernie Sanders art history memes here
(Bernie in Kyoto)
Bernie was in Japan directed by Akira Kurosawa.
Ikiru 
Thanks to Sachin Shrijith
(Bernie in Tijuanna, Mexico )
Bernie in Budapest
Bernie Sanders in Burlington (see more photos and links from here)
Bernie and Allen 
(Here is Bernie Sanders in front of my house)
Happy Covid Christmas -2020
December 21st, 2020Tree
Soviet Santa (How Santa Survived the Soviet Era)
Edgard Varese, Frank Zappa Connection
Frank Zappa – Birth date, December 21
Edard Varese – Birth date, December 22
TP Meditation Taylor Mead Haiku Robert Hass Translation
September 17th, 2020
Tyranny of Design? Or Chairs as Characters
August 26th, 2020Most chairs aren’t designed to serve human bodies – but a better seat is possible. By Sara Hendren
Tony Cragg <> 
Tom Friedman
– his school chair, drilled into skeletal oblivion.
See a Dragon Chair sold for 28 Millions by Eileen Gray.
The unique and remarkable ‘Dragons’ armchair was acquired from Miss Gray by Suzanne Talbot, the first patron to provide her with an opportunity to create a complete environment. The exotic, symbolist character of the piece situates it conceptually within the first phase of Miss Gray’s creative cycle.
The Mad Tea Party (previous post)
Two chair design by Scott Burton
Lugar Column 2016
Artists from Brazil
My photos of New Mexico Las Vegas Hotel Lobby –
Panda with oversized bamboo.
Posted by Fung-Lin Hall on Tuesday, November 5, 2013
(Ikea – photo by Fung Lin Hall)
Weather and Warehouse
Comic Cat, Lit Cat, Film Noir Cat – 2020
August 8th, 2020
Edward Gorey loved cat and Balanchine (previous post)
The Cop and Peter Cook the Comic Genius
Doris Lessing 
Doris Lessing archive here.
Herman 
and the Cat.. another photo from writing & the feline muse.
Herman Hesse – The Glass Bead Game
Kay Ryan
A CAT/A FUTUREA cat can draw
the blinds
behind her eyes
whenever she
decides. Nothing
alters in the stare
itself but she’s
not there. Likewise
a future can occlude:
still sitting there,
doing nothing rude.
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Staying Alive, Mask & How To Wash Hands
March 13th, 2020
Carnivale Mask (sold in Venice)
Renate Buser was ahead of time
showing how to wash hands in 2008.
Garlic and Ginger – G Theory
(photo by Fung Lin Hall)Garlic & Ginger..the two spices that grace the oriental cooking. In contrast to other theories which circulate in the world today, They are constructive without being overly critical. They deliver the essentail services of being pungent and relevant. Unlike the Russian constructivist, the origin of this theory is ancient and anonymous. The subscribers to this theory are seldom arrogant, and their work is
understood and appreciated by all.
TP Meditation I~
TP Meditation II 
TP Meditation III
Humans are the only creatures who use toilet paper – and what a nightmare!! (Don’t know who designed this paper toilet site.)
The Year of Metal Rat – Happy New Lunar Year 2020
January 24th, 2020
(via)
Hieronymus Bosch
(11 Things I learned from the Hieronymus Bosch by David Byrne)
Rats are clever, quick thinkers; successful, but content with living a quiet and peaceful life.
Personality and characteristics
Optimistic and energetic, people born in the Rat year are likable by all. They are sensitive to other’s emotions but are stubborn with your opinion. Their personality is kind, but due to weak communication skills, their words may seem impolite and rude.
On the financial side, they like saving and can be stingy. However, their love for hoarding will sometimes cause them to waste money on unnecessary things.
RIP Jonathan Miller, Revisiting the Polymath on Dick Cavett
November 27th, 2019
(Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller: The Cast of “Beyond the Fringe)
BBC obit
Jonathan Miller, director and humorist, dies at 85
Jonathan Miller and The Kinds of Genius
(Jonathan Miller directs Mikado)
Banksy & Marcel Duchamp in studio -2019
July 28th, 2019
via Robin Gunningham/Mr Banksy… or Banksy in Studio
Banksy homepage here.
Previous post
Monet 
by Banksy
July 28 2019 today.. happy birthday Banksy and Marcel Duchamp.
Viva Rebecca Horn & Lawrence Ferlingetti -March 24 2019
March 24th, 2019Happy birthday Rebecca Horn and Lawrence Ferlingetti
(Underwear, Unicorn body suit – previous post)
Rebecca Horn, Body, Art installations
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Dreaming Stones – Rebecca Horn.
Lawrence is 100 years old today!
Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s ‘Little Boy’ reveals his life before the San Francisco beat scene
Edward Gorey – Love of Balanchine PT II
February 22nd, 2019
Edward Gorey near one of the Nadelman sculptures on the promenade at the NY State Theater, 1973. Photograph: Bruce Chernin. Image provided by the Alpern Collection, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University.
photo via Paris Review
Edward St. John Gorey (February 22, 1925 – April 15, 2000)
“He was a precocious child. He claimed to have read all the works of Victor Hugo by the age of eight.”
Edward Gorey Love of George Balanchine Part I
Feb 22 – Int’l cat day in Japan .. see Gorey with cat here.
Wes Anderson is under the spell of Edward Gorey
Poet Frank O’Hara and macabre writer and illustrator Edward Gorey were roommates at Harvard in the late ’40s, where they furnished their apartment with garden furniture and a coffee table made from a repurposed tombstone. According to The New Yorker, the pair “established their rooms as (in the words of a home-town friend) the spot to ‘lie down on a chaise lounge, get mellow with a few drinks, and listen to Marlene Dietrich records.’” Pompous and eccentric? Perhaps. But we bet their room was the coolest place on campus.
