Spanish Broom

One man’s flower is another man’s weed, apparently. Our neighborhood is alive right now with the fragrance of the lovely yellow-flowering Spanish broom – Spartium junceum L.. Here in Albuquerque, it’s lovingly cultivated for its lovely open green stems and wild yellow blooms. We’ve had one for several years on the mound in our front …

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Picasso

It is over between Pablo and me. It has been a long time coming, such a passionate thing cannot be without unpleasantness. His talent is so magnificent, all stark erotic power. I will never forget the moment I turned a corner in the National Museum to see a sketch from Les Demoiselles, and I was …

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Too Weird

OK, this is weird. Some guy just gave me 125 blogshares. I think it’s a scheme to get me to link to his blog and thus drive up its value. I think it might have just worked.