Paleo Retiree writes:
- Thom Mayne needs to be stopped. Link tks to Fabrizio del Wrongo.
- It’s good to be a retired EU bureaucrat.
- Nothing if not a dynamo.
- Birth Tourism Yarn Du Jour.
- A beautiful nude of Lee Miller by Man Ray.
- As of the end of the year, Newsweek will stop publishing on paper and go all-digital.
Blowhard, Esq.
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Sherbrooke
Eddie Pensier
Enzo Nakamura
Epaminondas
Fabrizio del Wrongo
Fenster
Brundle Guy
Glynn Marshes
Paleo Retiree
Atypical Neurotic
Question Lady
Sax von Stroheim
Sir Barken Hyena
The Mistaken
Uncouth Reflections 
The answer to the EU pension boondoggle is for the UK to leave so that Germany will be effectively alone in funding the nonsense. If that means that British eurocrats are left pensionless, that’s OK by me.
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Ah, Lee Miller. Thanks for that reminder.
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Newsweek is still published?!?
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I’m reading the new Paglia book on visual art and while she attacks the decadence of contemporary painting and sculpture, she’s pretty silent on contemporary architecture.
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In her recent piece on the essentialness of industrial arts, she praises guys like Gehry. Or am I remembering that wrong?
I like Paglia a lot. But I’ve never really loved her as an art critic. I like her more when she’s talking about culture in general.
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In a couple of pieces/interviews I’ve read recently she’s surprisingly impressed by contempo architecture. I suspect that what’s going on is that she’s wowed by the visuals and the engineering stunts. I don’t think she’s wrong to feel that way, I just think she’s missing the point that it’s architecture, not design. It’s more important how these things and places behave than it is how they look. But a huge fan of hers generally. What a force for the good!
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