Patrick

Bumpin’

Criselda Vasquez
"The New American Gothic," 2017
Oil on canvas

“While we seek mirth and beauty and music light and gay,
There are frail forms fainting at the door;
Though their voices are silent, their pleading looks will say: Oh, hard times, come again no more.”

Stephen Foster, 1854

“There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and shame the devil.” - Walter Lippmann

#RadioFreeAmerica

He is, truly, a man of the people.

Truth. And it fucking hurts to say, too.

On this day in 1978, "Mother" Maybelle Carter passed away at 69. A founding member of The Carter Family, she shaped country music with her revolutionary "Carter scratch" guitar style and timeless influence on generations of musicians.

They keep happening to SOME people.

Spits or swallows?

I was told there would be Hot Pockets.

AI in about ten minutes: “The human virus destroys everything good it touches.”

“Using his golden-orange coat to blend into the surroundings, the micro panther stalks his prey from the relative safety of the recycling bin.”