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Monthly Archives: January 2013
OBAMA PLEDGES NOT TO KILL ANY CHILDREN FOR THREE DAYS
In an emotional news conference, sharing the stage with children who had written in to him about their fears concerning guns, President Obama announced a sweeping plan to curb gun violence in America.
To demonstrate his commitment to this issue, Obama has pledged not to kill any children in the Middle East with drones for 72 hours. “He’s just not going to do it,” said White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, “even if the children are playing in the vicinity of a high-value target.”
Critics have pointed out that since the details of drone attacks are classified, there will be no way of knowing for sure whether or not the President keeps his pledge not to kill any children for three days — the President’s supporters insist, however, that “it’s the thought that counts”.
BARBARA
TURNTABLE
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THE END OF THE AFFAIR?
Is America’s love affair with rich and powerful psychopaths starting to cool?
Is the nation tiring of its role as the sheep-like victim of human monsters? Is there a move afoot to turn to sane and decent people for leaders and role models?
Only time will tell!
ANOTHER REVIEW
. . . of my book Fourteen Western Stories on Amazon:
stories from a real story teller
lots of variety here, All of the stories are told really well. more than worth the money, and well worth the time to read them.
A TABLOID NEWSPAPER COVER FOR TODAY
A DEGAS FOR TODAY
At the Café des Ambassadeurs, 1885. Pastel.
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LLOYD’S MODERN LIFE: HATS
Geographical protocol . . .
A GROWN-UP IN THE ROOM
Tommy Lee Jones was the only person in the room at the Golden Globe Awards that I could relate to. He looked as though he was wondering, as the only grown-up on the scene, if he should put a stop to the preposterous shenanigans going on around him.
Sadly, he seems to have decided it was not his job.
A NEW REVIEW
. . . on Amazon of my collection Fourteen Western Stories:
There is language well-used here, and humor, sex, bravery, honor, shame and surprise.
In an old form, stories of and in The West, there is a modern honest appreciation of men and women (what women!) and the trouble they get into when they meet and mingle. And the pleasure that can be found even in a rough and unforgiving world.
Fonvielle’s story-telling makes it hard to stop reading, true, but don’t hurry through these . . . stories. There are only so many and you should make them last.
AN ILYA REPIN FOR TODAY
Tolstoy, 1901.
ALL TOGETHER NOW
Weren’t those Globes golden?
As the Hollywood community grows year by year shabbier, more vulgar and less talented, so ceremonies like the Golden Globes grow more inspiring. Who among us could not look at that room full of hacks and think, “If I were at one of those tables, I’d be among the classiest and most attractive people in the room”?
What we’re witnessing is the the democratization of celebrity — the gathering of all in a grand jamboree of mediocrity.
HIGH MEADOW
Black Butte Ranch, Wyoming, 2002 — Eli, Lloyd, J. B., Isabel, Colin.
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AN IGOR SAMSONOV FOR TODAY
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