Known as the King, this early 20th century urinal is at Pioneer Place, a performing arts venue in downtown St. Cloud.
Friday, October 31, 2008
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Oct. 29, 2008
Art department faculty meeting, St. Cloud State University.
Agenda: Advising students for Spring Term registration, writing a description of my position which will be advertised soon. I retire at the end of Spring term.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Oct. 28, 2008
Sculptor Sam Spiczka opened a solo show today at Atwood Gallery, St. Cloud State University.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Friday, October 24, 2008
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Friday, October 17, 2008
Oct. 17, 2008
Nymph and the Shepherd
She died a dozen times before I died,
And kept on dying, nymph of fatality.
I could not die but once although I tried.
I envied her. She whooped, she laughed, she cried
As she contrived each fresh mortality,
Numberless lethal times before I died.
I plunged, I plugged, I twisted, and I sighed
While she achieved death’s Paradise routinely.
I lagged however zealously I tried.
She writhed, she bucked, she rested, and, astride,
She posted, cantering on top of me
At least a hundred miles until I died.
I’d never blame you if you thought I lied
About her deadly prodigality.
She died a dozen times before I died
Who could not die so frequently. I tried.
--Donald Hall
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Oct. 15, 2008
The Ark of the Living Breathing Thing by David Dunlap and Jay Schmidt (detail), Kiehle Gallery
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Monday, October 13, 2008
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Oct. 11, 2008
A night in a cabin near Tom Lake, 45 miles from the Canadian border, originally uploaded by TedSher.
A night in a cabin near Tom Lake, 45 miles from the Canadian border
Oct. 10, 2008
Left handed photography of a flying log on Lake Superior near Grand Marais MN, most successful version.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Monday, October 6, 2008
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Friday, October 3, 2008
Oct. 3, 2008
Art students
In Philip Roth's new novel "Indignation," a college president in the 1950's addresses the student body after a campus riot:
"Beyond your dormitories, a world is on fire and you are kindled by underwear. Beyond your fraternities, history unfolds daily—warfare, bombings, wholesale slaughter, and you are oblivious of it all. Well, you won't be oblivious for long! You can be as stupid as you like, can even give every sign, as you did here on Friday night, of passionately wanting to be stupid, but history will catch you in the end. Because history is not the background—history is the stage! And you are on the stage! Oh, how sickening is your appalling ignorance of your own times! Most sickening of all is that it is just that ignorance that you are purportedly at Winesburg to expunge. What kind of a time do you think you belong to, anyway? Can you answer? Do you know ? Do you have any idea that you belong to a time at all ?"
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
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Dec. 28, 2007
In the waning years of WW II, we were living in Rockville Center, Long Island, I was about 12 and dad was dying of a brain tumor. Mom said NYC was no place for a widow to bring up a child, so she packed us up and we took a train to her childhood home in Detroit Lakes Minnesota. That's where she met and married this widower. He was a clothing salesman and outdoorsman.
Dec. 27, 2007
Hamburger at Petes Place