Saturday, March 09, 2024

Spring Behind One Hour?

 

An item from today's Press Republican newspaper:


 This item looked familiar.  Then I remembered (from March 10, 2012):


https://writog.blogspot.com/2013/03/did-you-fall-for-this-one.html

 Highest standards of journalistic excellence.

 

 

Wednesday, March 06, 2024

My Eye As A Beholder




© 2024 Luke T. Bush

PLATTSBURGH CITY, NY  - 3/6/24

I was walking by one of the many thrift shops downtown when something caught my eye in a cardboard box.  The FREE box held items discarded because the shop thought they weren’t worth selling, no value.

Standing out from the miscellaneous debris was a small painting, a view of a lake with sunset colors over the mountains in the distance.  It piqued my attention so I picked it up for a closer examination. There was a $2.00 sticker on the back but apparently it wasn’t even worth that. Interesting but not enough for me to carry.  I put it back.

After making a visit to the bank I doubled back to the FREE box, the painting on my mind.  It was still there.  I took it home.

I liked the image, the colors, the view framed on three sides with silhouetted vines and grass.  Simple but effective.  Art snobs would sneer at this amateur painting and then go into an orgasmic thrall while viewing Andy Warhol’s stupid soup cans.

For me simple beats pretension.

Even an average person can be an art snob.

 

Saturday, February 03, 2024

Through Her Work Aimee Baker Honors Women Victims


Aimee Baker reads her essay to twenty-one attendees at Chapter One.

 


© 2024 Luke Bush


PLATTSBURGH CITY, NY - 02/02/24

As a true crime writer Aimee Baker investigates cases of missing and unidentified women. From her research Aimee authored a book of poetry honoring these victims, Doe, the collection winning the Akron Prize in Poetry.

In 1999 Aimee read a news story about a woman who fell out from a speeding car. She died two days later, remaining unidentified for 9 years. The question was whether the victim fled or was pushed from the car. From this article Aimee started to research other cases of unidentified women victims.

She spoke this evening at Chapter One Coffee & Tea. She shared her essay about her research into the murder of Jennie Hemmingway, 14, during the early 1900s in St. Albans, VT.

Besides being a writer and poet Aimee is the co-host of the podcast She Goes By Jane, [https://evergreenpodcasts.com/she-goes-by-jane] the title referring to Jane Doe cases.

 

Aimee Baker responds during Q&A.