December 2008
11 posts
In memoriam: A posthumous award for this year’s notable departures. Contenders include Alan Greenspan’s reputation as a great central banker; investment banks; the newspaper industry; sport-utility vehicles; fiscal prudence; the inexorable rise of BRIC economies and the theory that BRICs had “decoupled” from rich world economies; pay increases; and capitalism. But the winner is economic...
“The painting is the record of a moment in a transient life; the intersection of...”
– Jeff Fichera Paintings
Theres nothing original about my stuff! you see these paintings in every art-schoool basement! our bios would allread the same: “favorite artist”:van gogh. Favortie subject matter: portraits of weathered faced. Hobbies: taking long walks in the rain and rinking black coffee. Im just good a imitating other painters. Theres nothing new in what I paint.
- Mark Salzman
Waste Allocation Lift Loader, Earth-Class
“I woke up one day and everything in the apartment had been stolen and replaced with an exact replica. I said to my roommate, ‘Can you believe this? Everything in the apartment has been stolen and replaced with an exact replica.’ He said, ‘Do I know you?’ ”
