January 17, 2026
I am always interested to see how other artists look in their studios and in fact, a photo of Maynard Dixon in his San Francisco studio was the inspiration for my entryway wall.
Here's another cat I admire.
And then there is this classic scene, which is perhaps the single most famous Route 66 photograph ever.
Reading The Signs
The president is 79 and starting to lose it. He claims to be in great shape but only his diehard supporters believe him. Grievances in the countryside have reached critical mass. The political system is inaccessible and re-election campaigns seem unnecessary and are attacked by the press and all but negated by vigorous rigging. If he had stepped down earlier he would have gone down in history quite differently. But he didn't and the result was calcification and oligarchy. It all ended in one of the world's great social revolutions and Porfirio Diaz of Mexico was toppled and driven from office in 1911. This is from the excellent book, Mexico: A 500-Year History by Paul Gillingham and the historic echoes land in our time like lobbed hand grenades.
My vision is going but at least my hindsight is still twenty-twenty. Meanwhile. . .
When Your Eyesight Is Minus Twenty-Twenty
So much humor is about the contradictions we live with and very few comedians come angling in from the right, but this guys does.
"Do you think your dad got out of high school and was just 'Alright, it's time to be a prick about everything!'"
—Shane Gillis, explaining how being a Republican sneaks up on you
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