[Jim Moonan]

Originally Posted by James Brancheau

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*The run amok part was intended to be a compliment. I'm pretty sure that came across, but wanted to be sure.. Which is why I don't teach college in the states. I'd be fired immediately for multiple things in one sentence. Concision is important.

Ha! You caught me in mid-response to query you about what exactly it is about me that has run amok! So I'm relieved...

I'm not fully informed of Hannah Gadsby's comedic art, but I don't care much for what I've seen. What I am impressed with is critic Jason Farago's take-down of the exhibit at the knees. I don't think she's done the Brooklyn Museum any favors, as Julie predicts. It's hard to imagine the curator waking up to this review and feeling rosy about the exhibit's success. We'll see... I still think these kinds of glib, cancel-culture-stained attacks will amount to next to nothing in terms of diminishing the power of Picasso's work.That's what I meant by flash-in-the-pan. It's more of a nuisance than anything noteworthy being added to the collective critique of Picasso's body of work.

Alas, AI shall never pass. With regard to "this, too, shall pass" What I do hope passes is the knee-jerk cancel culture that uses their arse for a hat. I hope it gives way to a transcendent generation of thinkers (my children's children!) that rejuvenates western culture to anchor itself to morals and values and science and art and literature while still reaching for freedoms. Coffee talk.

I'm with you. It's the work, the work, the work.

Or are we caught in a rat's wheel?
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