"What goes around, comes around" -- Beastie Boys
The human mind is a hell of thing. Mine took me on a journey this week, a detour down rabbit holes that enlightened and amused me. And so I invite you to take a trip with me to visit my beautiful mind and see what I saw.
I was reading a news story so forgettable that I've, well, forgotten it. The piece was illustrated by this starkly beautiful painting of a winter scene.
The piece, as it turns out, is entitled 'Winter Blue'. The artist? His name was Zoltan Sepeshy.
I think you understand what synapses fired at that point. So I did some digging into Z Sep. Turns out he was a Hungarian-American artist of reasonable renown, serving as the Director of the Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research in Bloomfield Hills, MI, a suburb of Detroit. His work was alternately realist and cubist, and his subjects were both pastoral and urban-industrial. This 1947 work, entitled Factory Rhythm (Back of Hudson Motor Plant), is more of the latter.
That painting lit up a different pathway in my mindtunnels. It reminded me a lot of the streetscape from this legendary video:
Are any of these people related to Ty Cobb?
ReplyDeleteThat last photo could alternately be titled "TR, wondering why he is doing dry January"
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of Detroit, today is the 75th of Betty LaVette. I had the privilege of watching her from the front row at The Harvester a few years ago. There were a couple of times when she strutted over to me, locked eyes, and sang straight to me. Pretty awesome.
ReplyDeleteColonoscopy complete. A “tiny” polyp that they will do the pathology on and tell me about. Hopefully inconsequential.
ReplyDeleteAnd I love this post. It’s got Malone (one of the more talented artists in multiple media forms I’ve ever met) and the Beasties, and best of all, it makes me realize I’m not the only crazy coot prone to ridiculous rabbit holes.
ReplyDeletepour some out for john chaney. legend.
ReplyDeleteSome Friday p.m. music. I was unaware of a slide guitarist named Jeff Plankenhorn until recently. The strummers and Americana folks in the audience may be familiar with him. He appears quite stout. Here's a sample. His stuff is easy to find on the interwebz.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzuJK262pA0
absolute horseshit that it's been 4 weeks and yet dry January still extends through this weekend
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I fell off the wagon 2/3 of the way through the month. Oh well.
ReplyDeletedry january is for quitters
ReplyDeleteThe Teej is doing it!? Wouldn’t know it, given your Twitter feed full of cats looking at wine glasses.
ReplyDeleteI am tentatively thinking I’ll hold off until Super Bowl. Sunday will make 28 days for me.
The cats are boozehounds, or I guess boozefelines, what can I say
ReplyDeleteHubie Brown needs to be put to pasture. He just did a 20-second rant about why you should foul a shooter b/w his wrist and his elbow so that he can’t get the shot off. Oy veh.
ReplyDeleteThat's not compelling?
ReplyDeleteMy college coach was best friends with John Chaney’s long time assistant. Father of former Houston Rocket Matt Maloney. Never got the chance to meet John, though I heard plenty of stories about what a badass he was.
ReplyDeleteOn another note, my previous neck issues have resurfaced a bit. Nothing to terrible but enough to seriously affect my ability to sleep for long stretches. As a result, I was up at 5:45 this morning and at the gym before 6:30. On the bright side, the gym is very empty at 6:30 on a Saturday.
While I’ve not had a dry January, I have been off the devil’s lettuce for the past few weeks for employment reasons. That’s in the past now though!
ReplyDeleteChaney was awesome. As the grandchild of two Temple grads I spent a bunch of time at McGonigle Hall as a kid. Just a great dude who really loved his players.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe Temple named an arena after a Hogwarts professor.
ReplyDeleteFun fact: McGonigle opened in 1969, which is nice.
ReplyDeletemy gambling career is starting slowly, as the fanduel location tracker doesn’t believe i’m in virginia.
ReplyDeleteDid Loudoun County secede without telling you? Stealth statehood campaign! New Freedonia, a la Marx Brothers in Duck Soup.
ReplyDeletethe gods owe us a baylor/gonzaga national title game.
ReplyDeletegonna get the first decent snowstorm in two years in this area tomorrow. went to the store for a couple of necessities this evening. they were out of the most random things: tortillas, jalapeños, blueberries. someone’s making a wickedly fucked up chili tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteI’m a bit disappointed that Rob doesn’t have tortillas on deck. I make some form of tacos every week.
ReplyDeleteThe Stafford-Goff trade is a doozy. I’d plunk a bit down on the Rams for next season if I lived in a state where gambling was legal.
that is an excellent bit of foreshadowing, mark
ReplyDeleteI guess McVay REALLY hated Goff. Stafford is a 32 y/o who has taken a ton of hits. Rams gave up a lot. Lions got a nice haul of draft picks in return. But they’re also stuck w/ Goff.
ReplyDeleteIf you aren’t buying masa harina and making your own tortillas, you’re doing it wrong. So easy and superior.
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