Monthly Archives: June 2008
wide world of Wayne
Some rather surprising John Wayne propaganda that I think Fresca might be particularly interested in. Wayne shirtless, with airbrushed nipples. Wayne shirtless, wrestling with another man on a rope ladder. Wayne with what looks like quite a lot of blush … Continue reading
world war I propaganda posters
From the JM Davis Museum. Rhetorically fascinating. One day, I’ll team-teach a grad seminar with Mr. Husband on propaganda. He’ll handle the visual rhet angles and I’ll handle the media distribution angles and we’ll both talk about the rhetoric of … Continue reading
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contemplative monkey is contemplative
From the beer stein collection at the JM Davis Arms and Historical Museum in Claremore, OK. Not normally our cup of tea, but we were driving down the street, the Supreme Court decision on the right to bear arms was … Continue reading
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what you’ve heard, it’s all true
Tom Waits is indeed a blind carny. Tom Waits is also, in actual fact, a street preacher with sandwich boards and a megaphone. Tom Waits is that uncle you heard all those stories about. Tom Waits plays a solid two … Continue reading
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i came around the corner and there were all these funny little faces.
All from the Karl and Beverly White Fishing Tackle Museum at the Oklahoma Aquarium. Art is often where you weren’t looking for it. (50 or so more here.)
lock and dam
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I am astonished
because it appears that someone on the other side of my apartment complex has purchased the car I traded in a few months ago. Same make/model, same dings on the door, same rust on the spare tire bar. Gotta take … Continue reading
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on being friends with certain sorts of people
So I would be dancing around and doing my scat, singing along what they were doing. And just watching those guys go into another world, with their sounds, you know, and the expressions of their faces changed and their behavior … Continue reading
Posted in Art for Art's Sake
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our water was off all day yesterday, so we went to the Zoo.
And also ran errands and stuff.
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Welcome to Thinkery, est. 2003. At the moment, I'm an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at Syracuse University. I'm interested in new media, historical conceptions of authorship, and human/machine agency. I write about all of that elsewhere, mostly, and keep this space for other areas of investigation about the world: namely, cooking, gardening, and travel.
