Kate Spade fashion, Jazz...What a Delight!

While shopping with my lady in an invigorating upscale shopping mall today, I noticed some really nice colorful bags some folks had and also some grand boots. Looked like good 'hip' Kate Spade designs. Unusual flair is characteristic of the super work of Kate Spade. This interesting cultural fashion tidbit reminds one of superb keyboard work by the sleek one, the fella named Brad Mehldau. Real super-fine keyboard work is thrilling. It goes back to the brilliant stylings of Oscar Peterson. Brad M. like Mr. Peterson has a delightful keyboard attack with not even a hint of banality. Jazz and Fashion really help each other out. Fashions of good folks like Oscar, Anna and of course Lauren are so fasinating. Grand art of all kinds lurks in so many forms these days.

Q-Tip, Norah Jones; 'Gossip Girls' Culture

Big energy day. Went looking for some whoopin' good time fun and latched on to listening to Q-Tip and Norah Jones. What a great combination, the fine music of Norah Jones and the Hip-Hop super one, Q-Tip. Sometimes it's a good idea to stretch out the branches on the huge American culture tree and have a blast of fun. What a singer is Norah Jones! And what a good pick-me-up high energy fella is Q-Tip. LOL fine times are coming tonight. Of course there is nothing quite like the grand verbal dervish, the mighty Conan O'Brien. That Conan O. can have me guffawing with his NJ stuff. Yes Conan O'Brien is so super. This is a good evening coming. Gossip Girls, the marvelous duo of Blake Lively and Leighton Meester are wowee grand. Blake Lively and Leighton Meester are so clever with their interesting shenanigans. The American Entertainment Culture world is a tremendous exciting ghoulash of so many fine flavors.

Lady Gaga, Madonna can sure 'Rock Out'

Lady Gaga and Madonna put on a wild, wonderful sketch on SNL last Saturday night. All of us music, arts and culture types surely "dug it." It's funny some people think us creaky nerds can't appreciate a good laugh, but my, my are they ever wrong. When I experienced the sly Lady Gaga and Madonna on my big-screen tv it had me breaking up like mad. Giant "whoop-t-do" comedy sketches are a real blast. Kind of huge scrumptious fun like an old time ice cream sundae. Lady Gaga and Madonna's "Whoopee" musical comedy is truly satisfying. It's great to have a kickin' good time on a relaxing Saturday evening.

Justin Timberlake, Jessica Biel: Culture

Pop Culture is a very tricky proposition to understand in this country. Many people say we have too much celeb news and other social stuff happening. But there is a factor to remember. A huge number of people in this land have depression so if there is good entertainment news poppin' then it can be a great pick-me-up for folks' worn souls. The recent rash of Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel news items has been kind of interesting. Mr. Timberlake and Ms. Biel have lots of followers. Some say pondering these souls is meaningless stuff but then again diggin' this stuff about Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel can ignite some folks' tired lives. The melting psycho-chemicals making up Pop Culture can produce all sorts of artistic events. Look how a man like Pablo Picasso was influenced by the unusual goings-on of his time. Picasso could get it done. The same is pretty much true of the strong art soul, Mr. Salvador Dali. Dali and his bizarre style was grand. Let us enjoy the huge gumbo deliciousness of Pop Culture. We all need huge dollops of fun. That's a good thing.

Dali and Renoir can delight our brains

Great imaginative art can cool our brow as the old folks might say. Lord, that DAWGS-LSU thing. After having all kinds of emotional shaking-ups from the rugged UGA-LSU game I decided to go off on one of my art hang-ups late today. I studied a fine Renoir print of mine and got so relaxed losing myself in the rather shimmering colors. But then I dove into the explosive art wild man, Salvador Dali. He has a way of sending us regular people off into a completely different realm from that of the wee bit traditional fella, M. Renoir. Dali was quite eccentric and so "cool" and crafty. He delved into strange dream-like art works that seduced people because of their intensely fantasy-oriented flavor. His "surrealism" conception as an intrinsic factor in his painting drew many legions of fans with its somewhat odd fantasy-prone escalating edgy strength that was so prevalent in a number of his works. His strange paintings have brought many unique art enthusiasts to talking over the years. It is obvious our good friend Renoir with his delightful colors and charming people can enchant but then one must remember that the mystery man, Dali, can also fascinate people because of his sweeping so "mod" style. His works, "Persistence of Memory" and "The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus" are exciting, mind-blasting explosions of vintage art modernism that must be applauded as strongly as possible. To sum up: The Lord Bless the great Renoir but also remember the grand "surreal" man from Spain, the one and only Salvador Dali.

Hey DAWGS! Get With It!

Last night was a low one. The DAWGS had too many penalties and not much on many segments of the big tough game with LSU. The huge thing was what happened to the offense. For a number of years the teams of the Red and Black have had mighty fine offensive units. What's the deal with these current guys? Don't they have a sense of what the oldtime DAWG fellas did before they came along? The clever LSU guys shoved the DAWGS around and it made this ole DAWG mighty upset. I like to see a gridiron unit that has some real fire, knows how to make great things happen and for the Lord's sake don't collapse at the last. I know the DAWG defense was worn out but even in combat you can't let the other guys just crack the whip and steamroll you at the last few minutes of a brutal slugfest. Another thing...why do these berserk penalties just come falling down like bad North Georgia floods on the DAWGS. Current rules seem kooky, who knows maybe they were devised by a Peter Sellers 'Dr. Strangelove' unit. Hopefully in the next few days these fellas called the DAWGS will decide to play some classy football. Kind of get with it. When I was in Air Force training, the tough NCOs would chew and chew if you flubbed up. Maybe a military mindset is what these DAWGS desperately need.

The Dada Art Genre Draws Us All In

In the last few days, I have found myself again with a rather intense interest in the somewhat brash brand of art known as Dada. In its nihilist way, this early 20th Century movement kidded traditional art that was around then. Artists like the legendary Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia produced some fiery so colorful and sleekly bizarre works. Picabia's clever, hardnosed passionate work is particularly full of delicious esthetic mystery. Picabia work of the period of the early 1920s is quite fascinating. If one studies the boldness of the Dada genre, then one can recognize the fact that Dada was obviously a huge influence on other powerfully mysterious artistic conceptual mindsets like that of Pop Art. Duchamp and Picabia were quite innovative. Also, an interesting dimension to the mind of Duchamp is that he was quite into the playing of chess.