Showing posts with label groucho mask. Show all posts
Showing posts with label groucho mask. Show all posts

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Potential for "Marxist" public art?

I've been trying for weeks to explain the vision that keeps coming to me when I look across the parking lot from the future Bank Street Brewhouse to the newly remodeled and admirably re-humanized building that now houses the Schad, Palmer & Schad law firm. It's those two new windows on the side facing west that do it to me every time. Here's an effort to convey the vision of public art dancing in my head:

Yeah -- the one-way sign is right in the cigar's flight path.

No disrespect intended to my friends at the law office!

Thursday, September 04, 2008

Incognito.

I may have to begin wearing disguises to city council meetings. The one at left is a classic, if for no other reason than the fact that Groucho Marx remains a personal hero of long standing.

As a time filler, here's a slightly ribald anecdote from Groucho, who was "recounting a War Bonds tour in his Carnegie Hall appearance" (6 May 1972; attributed by Wikipedia):

I did a bond tour during the Second World War ... We were raising money, and we played Boston and Philadelphia and most of the big cities. And we got to Minneapolis. There wasn't any big theater to play there, so we did our show in a railroad station. Then I told the audience, that I knew a girl in Minneapolis. She was also known in St.Paul, she used to come over to visit me. She was known as "The Tail Of Two Cities." I didn't sell any more bonds, but eh ... they didn't allow me to appear anymore.