RiCK SAUNDERS

165 Followers
245 Following
1.3K Posts
Dad, husband, adoptee, music fiend, voracious reader, poly-curious.
I did this thing:
realdeepblues.blogspot.com
JoinedNov 16, 2022
We were robbed of our future.

“Frank Sinatra once saved my life,” Greene would say. “A bunch of guys were beating on me and Frank said, ‘OK that’s enough.’”

Shecky Greene (1926-2023) #FrankSinatra #SheckyGreene

Like sex, death and grief we (my generation and all previous) never learned how to deal with mental health issues. We spent the last 500 years cultivating a “polite society” and pretending to be pious and “morally straight” and most important of all learning to square dance in elementary school instead of talking honestly and learning how to deal with mental health issues.
Maynard Dixon
Scab
painting
1934
OIL ON CANVAS WOOD
36 in HIGH x 40 in WIDE
(91.44 cm HIGH x 101.60 cm WIDE)
Oakland Museum of California, museum purchase and gift of Edith Hamlin
http://collections.museumca.org/?q=collection-item/a8111
A81.11 | OMCA COLLECTIONS

By Engraving Found Plastic Waste, Duke Riley Links Extractive Practices Throughout Human History — Colossal

In the 1860s, the U.S. government introduced kerosene as an alternative for lighting lamps. Whale oil had previously dominated the market but was unsustainable given the appalling number of animals killed in order to provide power. The country quickly transitioned to fossil fuels, swapping one harmful and extractive practice for another. While whaling had its economic implications, it also birthed a largely nautical art form known as scrimshaw, or engravings in bone or ivory. More

Colossal