Matchbook and portion of advert(s) from weekly "paper" stapled to El Cortez playing card, 5.5 x 5 inches, Friday, September 9th, 2022, Cathedral Hill, San Francisco.
Do yourself a favour and look up the Good Pastor on the internet.
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Sunday, September 18, 2022
"The Seven Wonders of the World"
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"Stocking Stuffer"
Escort ad glued to photography advert, 5 x 3 inches, Thursday, September 8th, 2022, Cathedral Hill, San Francisco.
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Sunday, September 4, 2022
Saturday, September 3, 2022
"At Play in the Fields of the Lord"
Scoring and torn photograph stapled to postcard; but also with stickers, cellophane tape, charcoal and elementary school ephemera. 4.75 x 5.75 inches, Thursday, September 1st, 2022, R Bar, San Francisco.
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"The War on Christmas"
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"This Is For Fighting, This Is For Fun"
Scoring on photograph, 4 x 6 inches, Saturday, August 27th, 2022, Cathedral Hill, San Francisco.
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Friday, September 2, 2022
"Excerpts from My Christian Mingle ™ Profile"
- The “Left Behind” series – so good, so far ahead of its time in so many ways by a longshot.
- Long walks on the beach and realizing that when there was only one set of footprints that’s when He carried me.
- Another thing is I think we should abolish Planned Parenthood. There can be abstinence for one thing and then, you know, there are certain times of the month God gives a woman, and that can be a blessing to her man, too.
- Oh but related to that slut shaming sixteen-year-old girls outside abortion clinics. We need to use whatever means necessary to teach them how to respect life.
- This is an older picture of me but I think it really captures my spirit.
- I was thinking about those Home Depot Mexicans just waiting around in the parking lot to do jobs actual Americans could do. I mean some of them are fine, of course; Jesus teaches us to love.
- Public television is an attack on America and that should be abolished, too. A lot of things should be abolished.
- And also vouchers, I think, speaking of tax dollars – vouchers for religious education.
- Long walks on the beach and realizing that when there was only one set of footprints that’s when He carried me to protect my fragile virginity. Cause I don’t think I put that last part in before. It’s just that the night was warm and dark and moist and her scent was in the air – you know how it gets in your nose sometimes? - and her fingers slipped into the back pocket of my jeans. This was another girl, I mean, I wasn’t saying you should. Also, but nothing happened.
- I’m tired of this arbitrary separation of Church and State. Mostly because it interferes with my God given to discriminate against people for just cause, or sit in judgement of someone if they are flaunting the laws of God. And we see so much of that now.
- MAGA!
- One business idea I have has to do with an internet lock to protect the children and people that might have that kind of a predilection or addiction. I’d love to share my ideas about that with the right woman.
- Just, you know, loving my Savior.
Thursday, August 25, 2022
"Active Shooter"
Pen, pencil, felt pen, lipstick and sticker on cocktail napkin, 4.75 x 4.75 inches, Friday, August 19th, 2022, R Bar, San Francisco.
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"They Finger Mark So Easily"
Portion of photographic negative envelope plus escort ad stapled inside photograph envelope, with a little bit of lipstick; and then also with a portion of photographic negative envelope PLUS torn negatives PLUS lipstick on the outside, 4 7/8 x 7 inches, Friday, August 19th, 2022, R Bar, San Francisco.
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"A Tribute to My Buddy Bryan's Last Name"
Coasters stapled inside photograph envelope; with stickers, portion of photo advert, negative, lipstick, masking tape, portion of photographic negative envelope and portion of holiday card, 4.5 x 7 inches, Friday, August 19th, 2022, R Bar, San Francisco.
Intended for Bryan Daniel.
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Wednesday, August 24, 2022
Items Currently for Purchase in the Valley of the Big Cotton Sun
Proud Parent of a Child Molested at St. X (Bumper Sticker, $2.00 each, 3 for $5.00)
Proud Parent of a Child Molested at St. X by Father X (Bumper Sticker, $2.00 each, 3 for $5.00)
My Son Was Touched By Father X and All I Got Was This Lousy Hair Shirt ($30.00, one size fits all)
(Substitute "X" for any specific offender. All proceeds to hunting/tracking.)
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Original concept Plough and Stars, San Francisco, Sunday, May 29th, 2022. Final edits this evening.
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The Pronouns of the Holy Trinity - (They/Them)
Cathedral Hill, San Francisco, Saturday, August 20th, 2022.
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Tuesday, August 23, 2022
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
"Do You Reject Satan?"
Snippet from religious instruction booklet glued to photograph; photograph and torn piece from religious pamphlet stapled to photographic negative envelope, 6.25 x 4 inches, begun Sunday, August 14th, 2022, Plough and Stars, San Francisco; completed Monday, August 15th, 2022, Cathedral Hill.
Intended for Geoff Bankowski.
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"At Midnight a Cry Was Heard"
Pen on torn page from religious pamphlet stapled inside photograph envelope, 4.5 x 7 inches, Sunday, August 14th, 2022, Plough and Stars, San Francisco.
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"Sexy Maltese Beauty"
Torn escort ad glued to portion of religious pamphlet, 3 x 2 inches, Sunday, August 14th, 2022, Plough and Stars, San Francisco.
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("Not Everyone Loves Pictures")
Torn photos stapled to photo envelope, 4 3/8 x 6.5 inches, Sunday, August 14th, 2022, Plough and Stars, San Francisco.
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(Original Untitled IBL Art)
Torn photo adverts stapled together, 2.75 x 3.75 inches, Thursday, August 11th, 2022, R Bar, San Francisco.
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Saturday, August 13, 2022
"Vacation"
Photo adverts, film negative, pen, scoring, cellophane tape, sticker, staples, torn portion of Going Places by Leonard Michaels, torn portion of airline ticket and small note (Cannes) on photograph envelope with photograph inside, 4 5/8 x 7 inches, Thursday, August 11th, 2022, R Bar, San Francisco.
A month or so ago Kyra DeBiaso gave an artistic assignment to herself and some friends, and I decided to do my own version. The assignment was along the lines of "represent a vacation in some fashion". And so I did.
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Friday, August 12, 2022
"This Is Not a Metaphor for Whom I Want to Kill"
Scoring, pen and cellophane tape on photograph, 3.5 x 5 inches, Thursday, August 11th, 2022, R Bar, San Francisco.
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"The Stock Responses of Slick Pornography"
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Tuesday, August 9, 2022
"Skate, Shape of a Kite"
Decal and nativity scene from religious pamphlet stapled to doily, 7.5 x 4 inches, Wednesday, July 27th, 2022, R Bar, San Francisco.
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Tuesday, July 26, 2022
"Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland"
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Saturday, July 23, 2022
"Active Shooter"
Glue stick, charcoal, lipstick, painters' tape and scoring on crumpled photograph, 3.75 x 3.75 inches, Friday, July 22nd, 2022, Cathedral Hill, San Francisco.
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"The Place Where I Found You" (with Danielle McArthur)
Painters' tape, masking tape, charcoal, pencil, torn photograph and torn envelope on photo bag, 13 x 5.25 inches, Friday, July 22nd, 2022, Cathedral Hill, San Francisco.
And that portion of torn envelope with the three hearts was fashioned by Kyra DeBiaso, and poached by Your Humble Narrator.
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"The American Experiment"
Felt pen and masking tape on postcard (the Norwegian ship "Fram" in pack-ice), 4 1/8 x 5 7/8 inches, Friday, July 22nd, 2022, Cathedral Hill, San Francisco.
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"Good Guy With a Gun"
Photo from newspaper, portion of photography advert and Bible verse from religious pamphlet stapled or cellophane taped to a request for money from my Catholic High School, Don Bosco Technical Institute, Rosemead, California, 5 x 7 inches, Friday, July 22nd, 2022, Cathedral Hill, San Francisco.
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Friday, July 22, 2022
"Cotillion"
Lipstick and felt pen on portion of plastic delivery bag, 4 x 4.5 inches, Friday, July 15th, Maggie McGarry's, North Beach.
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"He's Not the Messiah, He's a Very Naughty Boy"
"My Baby Boy, My Baby Boy"
Torn photographs stapled together, 4 x 2.25 inches, Friday, July 15th, Maggie McGarry's, North Beach.
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"Someday You Will Ache Like I Ache"
Torn photographs stapled together, 3.75 x 2.25 inches, Friday, July 15th, Maggie McGarry's, North Beach.
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Thursday, July 14, 2022
"If I Could Move a Mountain For You, I'd Take Us Both to Spain"
Masking tape, painters' tape, cellophane tape and McArthur Family vacation notes on postcard, 3 7/8 x 5 3/4 inches, Wednesday, July 13th, 2022, Cathedral Hill, San Francisco.
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"A Boy and His Dog"
Scoring, masking tape, photography advert and staples on postcard, 3 5/8 x 5 5/8 inches, Tuesday, July 12th, 2022, Cathedral Hill, San Francisco.
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"Infection By Light"
Masking tape, painters' tape, cellophane tape, scoring and charcoal on photograph, 6 x 4 inches, Monday, July 11th, 2022, Cathedral Hill, San Francisco.
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Sunday, July 10, 2022
"The Wild One"
Aggressive scoring and cellophane tape on torn photograph, 5 7/8 x 3.75 inches, Sunday, July 3rd, 2022, Plough and Stars, Inner Richmond, San Francisco.
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(Original Untitled IBL Art)
Torn cocktail napkins stapled together, plus painters' tape, masking tape, cellophane tape, pen and charcoal, 6.5 x 5.5 inches, Sunday, July 3rd, 2022, Plough and Stars, Inner Richmond, San Francisco.
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"Amy, You're the Girl Who Wrecks My Dreams"
Escort ad, staples and aggressive scoring on postcard, 5 7/8 x 4 inches, Wednesday, June 22nd, 2022, Springville, CA.
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Saturday, July 9, 2022
"Rear Window"
Painters' tape on postcard, 5 7/8 x 4 inches, Tuesday, June 21st, 2022, Springville, CA.
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"Artist-in-Residence (Pretty in Pink)"
Escort ad, childhood ephemera, portion of photography advert, staples and cellophane tape on postcard, 5 7/8 x 4.25 inches, Wednesday, June 22nd, 2022, Springville, CA.
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"Robert Gober at Matthew Marks Through January 29th"
New Yorker blurb cellophane taped to restaurant receipt cellophane taped to doily, 6 x 6 inches, Tuesday, June 21st, 2022, Springville,
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Friday, July 8, 2022
"Cathedral in Black"
Painters' tape and scoring on photograph, 6 x 4 inches, Monday, June 20th, 2022, Springville, CA.
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"Good News From God"
Felt pen, masking tape, painter's tape, cellophane tape and religious ephemera on photograph, 4 x 6 inches, Tuesday, June 21st, 2022, Springville, CA.
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(Untitled Original IBL Art)
Felt pen and masking tape on photograph, 6 x 4 inches, Monday, June 20th, 2022, Springville, CA.
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(Original Untitled IBL Art)
Felt pen, pen, masking tape and sticker on photograph, 4 x 6 inches, Sunday, June 19th, 2022, Springville, CA.
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"The Banquet of the Starved"
After James Ensor, Belgian painter.
Scoring on torn photograph, 3.5 x 5 3/8 inches, Thursday, June 16th, 2022, Springville, CA.
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"Paraplegic"
Scoring on crumpled and torn photograph, 4.5 x 2.75 inches, Wednesday, June 15th, 2022, Springville, CA.
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"My Baby Boy, My Baby Boy"
Scoring and painters' tape on torn photograph, 5 x 5 inches, Sunday, June 12th, 2022, Springville, CA.
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"My Baby Boy, My Baby Boy"
Scoring, painters' tape, masking tape and pencil on photograph, 6 x 4 inches, Sunday, June 12th, 2022, Springville, CA.
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Tuesday, July 5, 2022
"Haiku"
Hey, Right Wing fuckers -
I was "woke" back when it was
called "Love thy neighbor."
July 3rd, 2022, Plough and Stars, San Francisco
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Sunday, June 26, 2022
"Have You Ever Felt So Used Up As This"
Chocolate, crayon, cellophane tape, lipstick, glue stick and fragments of negative on cocktail napkin, 4.5 x 4.5 inches, Wednesday, June 8th, 2022, Cathedral Hill, San Francisco.
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"Close Call"
Scoring on torn photograph, 2.5 x 3 inches, Thursday, June 9th, 2022, Cathedral Hill, San Francisco.
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"GOGA"
During the AIDS crisis of the late ‘70s and into the ‘80s, Right Wing pundits and so-called Christians, my mother among them (“Michael, if you defy Mother Nature, Mother Nature is going to push back.”), claimed that AIDS was God’s will, that He was targeting gay men for their perversions. For a time in the late ‘80s I worked in a methadone clinic in Santa Cruz, California, and interacted with IV drug users five days a week, including one short-haired blonde woman named Wendy S., who tested positive for the virus and then desiccated before our eyes. One morning she shuffled up to the dispensing window with straw hair and blue lips, and the nurse was so alarmed she called 911. Wendy was just shy of forty, and we didn’t see her again.
At that time, I remember thinking that the pundits and so-called Christians, for the most part, didn’t push an equal narrative about God’s retribution against IV drug users, perhaps because it wasn’t a 1:1 fit with that particular Culture War, which they still haven’t given up forty years later. Then there was the notion that God would target humans – that seemed very un-New Covenant, and appeared to fly in the face of redemption, and a Loving God.
I also thought, If God is targeting gay people, why are lesbians getting a pass? The transmission rate among lesbians was a fraction of the rate in the male gay community; wouldn’t lesbians be their equals as sinners, and shouldn’t God’s AIDS-Wrath have rained down on them as well? One evening, re-watching “Being There”, with Peter Sellers as Chance the Gardener, who liked to watch, it came to me - God, at His core, was nothing more than a typical red-blooded American male, and He loved Him some girl on girl action. It was just the fags He hated."Haiku"
About my art - it's
not my job to explain it,
it's your job to learn.
June 16th, 2022, Springville, CA
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Saturday, June 11, 2022
"Uncomplicated"
Pen, pencil, lipstick, charcoal, crayon and melted chocolate on cocktail napkin, with paper clip and one staple attaching to second napkin, 5.5 x 5.5 inches, Wednesday, June 8th, 2022, Cathedral Hill, San Francisco.
I wanted to hear some Elvis Costello the other night, and I put on Blood and Chocolate, side one, track one. And so the piece in the blog just prior to this happened (same title), and immediately after I did this. Which I much prefer to the previous, but it was nice for me to see the leap between the two.
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Friday, June 10, 2022
"Uncomplicated"
Pen, pencil, shaved pencil, glue stick, cellophane tape, lipstick, charcoal and melted chocolate on burnt cocktail napkin, 5 x 5 inches, Wednesday, June 8th, 2022, Cathedral Hill, San Francisco.
I wanted to hear some Elvis Costello the other night, and I put on Blood and Chocolate, side one, track one. And so this happened and, immediately after, the next entry in this blog, too.
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