Weird Barbie for Halloween

My friend Renee doing a great job rocking the Weird Barbie vibe.

I am a god unto the ants

I am a god unto the ants.

With a tiny effort I could

lift the bottle cap, that is now

blocking their procession and which

they must manuever around, thus

making all those lives easier.

Or I could crush them underfoot

even without knowing I have,

while wearing these heavy workboots.

Smiling on the oblivious

I hurry on my own business. 

~ N. G. McClernan 

Here is my Valadon exhibition

When I was in France last March, I made a trip to the Georges Pompidou Center specifically to see work by Suzanne Valadon - and they had nothing!

I was like Où sont-ils, les tableaux ? All these paintings by Suzanne Valadon are supposed to be here!

Turns out they had removed all her paintings in preparation for a big exhibition of her work. But by the time the exhibition happened I was long out of Europe. 

Worst of all, I had already seen some of the paintings at the Barnes Foundation show - but they didn't have the portrait of Erik Satie. Which they had in this exhibition, based on its image that flashes by at minute 4:46.  That's what I wanted to see, most of all.

Dammit.