The Louvre--Intriguing idea for a museum.

  The Louvre was an intriguing idea for a museum, if memory of high school history class serves me right. Wasn't it originally a dwelling for the kings and queens of France? I think it's pretty sad what happened to all those high-born people, but the museum idea is interesting. Sometimes there's mention in 21st Century contemporary art of ideas that sound like an advocacy of the use of the guillotine here in the States. One laughs, if one has a sense of humor, and maybe feels angry agreement or disagreement, but making museums out of old buildings that used to be monuments of fear is pretty cool. I want peace on Earth and goodwill to all and feel we're nowhere near there yet...I feel the way oif achieving it is not simply voting for it, and yet the solution is far from military. The people putting flowers in soldier's guns confronting them had the right idea, but discretion too is important. One does not want to sacrifice oneself to no purpose. I read an idea put forth by a Talmudic writer once who said that it is important for people who would wish to escape the sins of the world to instead use meditation to enable them (us) to "turn back warfare at its very gates." This is quite the opposite of a martial art. It is the courage to try to break up a fight without concern for whether one gets massacred in the process. Well, one does care a little. It's good to know a little First Aid. I took a class in it at the Red Cross, for example. I'm trembling in fear as I write this, but it's just cute, because none of it is illegal or anythiing or treasonous yet, so I'll just hit "SAVE NOW" and

Commentary on "Axe" deodorant products

   Axe-- "Axe" sounds like "Ask" and so it could be saying, if you buy it, "I'm so secure in my masculinity I need you to ask me if I'm feeling it, too." It could otherwise be saying, "I'm man enough to work with my hands, to go to the YMCA, to shower and wear deodorant, and I'll still ASK your permission before I touch you if I don't know you that well." On the other hand it could be saying something altogether different; it could be saying, "This is my way of asking. I'm asking now," as in, "I'm just dying to have you run up and grab my butt." I think that what's most likely, though, is this chain of reasoning, though I'm afraid I come out looking like a creep by it.
  Woamen say, "Ask before you touch me," because they want you to work with your hands, go to the gym, take a shower, and put on deodorant before you touch them. For those of us creeps who are still doing none of those things, there's "body wash," which only exists because the name is code for "Wash your body." For those of us creeps who still aren't washing our bodies or using deodorant there's "Axe" body wash, which means, "Put me out of my misery." Anyway, I'm just trying to be funny and experiment with what we learned in my art history class is called "hermeneutics", which means the belief that something is trying to really say something else. It's a doubtful assumption, of course, but it can make for interesting writing and reading.

Brillo

  Thanks for asking. This is a visual and tactile media, word, music, food and package culture commentary blog for anyone and everyone to contribute to. A friend once told me, "Don't write me a book." What I say is, "Write me...Not a book exactly, but the equivalent of two or three typewritten pages is fine." The only stipulation is if you write about a painting, you have to include a picture of the painting or at least describe the painting thoroughly enough that we know why you feel the way you do about it. And I really don't want to hear about an entree in a restaurant that cost more than twenty dollars! Let's keep it cheap, Folks! I hope that doesn't hamstring anyone.