Brain Candy

I understand that there is nothing funny about this. It’s just gallows humor.

A photo of Mount Rushmore

#Authoritarianism #Democracy

Abe & the Vandellas singing
“Where did our democracy go?”

2 A.M. -
drifting left in a stream
of red tail lights
into a surging river
of white head lights

#Poetry
#Driving
#Tragedy

A couple kissing in a Paris street outdoor café, a dog looking on

#PhotographersOnPhotography
#Photography

“Actually, I’m not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the photo is in the box, I’m not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren’t cooks.”

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

#PoetsOnPoetry #Poetry

“A poem that is composed without the sweet and correct formalities of language, which are what sets it apart from the dailiness of ordinary writing, is doomed. It will not fly. It will be raucous and sloppy—the work of an amateur.”

- Mary Oliver

Agree? Disagree?

#vss365

#sass is the ballet
of a cat walking across
your sleeping chest

#cats

A photo of rocks with mountains and shafts of light in the background

#PhotographersOnPhotography
#Photography

“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.”

- Ansel Adams

There’s something
kind of #sassy about
a stairway sidewalk

#vss365

a Stairway-Sidewalk

#sass rides a unicycle
made of glitter

#vss365
#MicroPoetry

lost in a forest
of concrete towers

#MicroPoetry

Absinthe by Edgar Degas

#ArtistsOnArt #Painting

A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.

- Edgar Degas

an eyeris?

A mean looking mug reciting poetry

#CriminalPoet #vss365

“she moves softly, an #angel tracing the fragile edges of belonging”

A little cartoon girl asking a question.

Mommy, what do #angels
do at night? #vss365

The notion here is that a driving rhythm is a necessary ingredient for a musical composition, melody and harmony alone is not sufficient.

YouTube video by The78Prof 1932 HITS ARCHIVE: It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) - Duke Ellington (Ivie A, voc)

youtu.be/jM3DNpnNv5k

#MusiciansOnMusic #Music

“It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.”

- Duke Ellington and Irving Mills

#Rhythm

#vss365 #Haiku

an #angel passes -
a flash of light glimpsed
in the street’s stillness

That stylish tilt of the hat!

Photo from 1970 depicting social and rest in a French town

#PhotographersOnPhotography
#Photography

“I don’t trust words. I trust pictures.”

- Gilles Peress

“Gilles Peress (born 1946) is a French photographer renowned for his impactful work documenting periods of intense political instability and human rights conflicts around the world.”

- Google A.I.

#vss365

In infinite space, an #angel hums softly, marveling at the expanding universe.

I’m having a pessimistic day

And when the cosmological Big Crunch or Big Freeze happens, it goes out.

YouTube video by Иван Шариков Richard Wagner: Prelude to «Lohengrin», Simon Rattle

youtu.be/zyodILZEQF

Listen to the linked orchestral work and you will see an #angel

The prelude to Wagner’s Lohengrin symbolizes the #angelic descent of the Holy Grail to Earth. It is a luminous, shimmering orchestral piece that creates a celestial, dreamlike atmosphere.

#vss365

And then, every memory, everyone and everything goes out.

… briefly, then goes out.

#ChildArtCritic

In the painting, a lady’s sitting close to the water, but her reflection looks like a twisty shadow. The water is super blue, and there’s a small green thing that must be a lily or a turtle wearing a hat. I kind of like it, a lot. And I give it four stars.

“To be or not to be, that is the wonder-why.”

- E. E. Shakespeare

#Neologisms
#EECummings
#Poetry

#MusiciansOnMusic #Music #Vss365

“Melody is the main thing; harmony is useful only to #charm the ear.”

- Joseph Haydn

Pablo Picasso's 1931 painting, Figures at the Seaside.

#PaintersOnPainting

“The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good sense.’”

– Pablo Picasso