Dan McHale

Last day of the dreaded #inktober. Tom Lehrer.

Was he referring to the Tea Party, or Republican intransigence in general?

I just happened to catch part of a video where Drew Struzan was demonstrating his use of a projector in his creation of a poster. He defended its use for speed. But he was still bringing great care to every inch of the image.

Oh I thought you’d written ‘creepy AI’

I think I needed to read this thread. Complaining about NYT coverage is a habit that I’m trying to shake.

Gaza Palestinians not Gazans. West Bank Palestinians not West Bankers. Palestinians with Israeli citizenship, not Israeli Arabs.

Decolonize your language.

Say Palestine. Say Palestinians.

Recent paintings!

Thanks for that. Amazed at how many words in English are from French.

Gift of the artist, J. Kasmin, and the Advisory Committee Fund

David Hockney, Kerby (After Hogarth) Useful Knowledge, 1975
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134928

#Inktober2025
Day 6
Pierce

In this case, president Franklin Pierce. I barely knew of him. New England Democratic who opposed the abolition movement.
Here he is signing the Kansas Nebraska Act.

Day 6:
Deer.

#inktober2025
Day 4
Murky.

#inktober2025
Day 3
Crown.

#inktober2025
Day 2, Weave

#inktober2025
Day 1, Mustache.

Opinion | The Right Didn’t Catch Cancel Culture From the Left

Your history lesson for today. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...

Thanks for the post.

I think I heard in German ‘mine Irish kind’— It made think of ‘my beamish boy’ from Jabberwocky’

"Condor deploys geographical motifs as signal of the intent to totalize. Redford as informational mechanic+industrial worker is more interesting than as English major +intellectual, + the great banks of telephone switches recall the ghostly proletarian content of the heist genre itself." Jameson

Power 100

elated! and more than a little embarrassed! to be included on Art Review's @artreview.bsky.social Power 100 list for 2024! thank you to all the art inspirations, and everyone reading and teaching Immediacy.
artreview.com/power-100/

Historian Thomas Zimmer has been one of the most clear-eyed observers and analysts of US political culture and the global far right over the past 5+ years. He's left Substack and started over at a new site that is NOT a Nazi bar. I encourage you to check out what he's doing there.

YouTube video by Jose Raffa La Stratégie du Choc Naomie Klein #Complet

Voir aussi ce très bon documentaire basé sur le livre de Naomi Klein:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a5g...

Oh wow, you mean it is a word? I mean I knew it was a word, but a friend has corrected me (via text message) telling me that it should be written “all right.”

The Shock Doctrine rocks.

This part.

See the award-winning new film Among Neighbors on Aug 12 in Sebastopol, featuring in-person Q&As with director @yoavpotash.bsky.social.

This evocative and politically relevant film explores a small Polish town’s dark past, and its residents who refuse to forget. 🎟️: bit.ly/NeighborsSebastopol

Please help if you can

Uh-oh, I haven’t heard of “bean mouth.”

Fucking recissions package passed, and these assholes really did cut Corporation for Public Broadcasting funding.

A rulling majority in this nation still absolutely incensed about the image of a white dude hanging out in his pool and asking his Black friend to join him.

The Payback, a novel, by Kashana Cauley

The Payback is out today, and you can buy it wherever books are sold. It comes highly recommended by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, The Boston Globe, Vanity Fair, the LA Times, the NYT, and dozens of people who hang out on this very website.