It's weird when you're from New York. That happens constantly. For a while, every time I turned on the news, and someone was murdered in midtown, it was on my block, I never knew.

Luckily for me, I'm just seeing that trope for the first time. There's still some enjoyment left in it.

That barrette in her hair!

Can I assume that is meant to be super dry humor? Please say yes. 😂

You are conflating things that are totally separate programs. Rent-stabilized was NOT a program related to income. It was a way to keep New York rents under control, period. Anyone could and did live in a rent stabilized apartments. Most people rented, and most rents were stabilized.

This is lacking context. Rent-stabilized in the '80s was more common than today, and it was not designated for a particular income level. If anything it was a middle class phenomena. That is not true now; there are still rent stabilized places, but new ones are subject to income restrictions, etc.

Cornwall, England?

Very nice. Dramatic. Makes you want to know more. Not sure what the white is. But the red against the night is powerful. Cool!

How beautiful. A linocut from 1933. When art like this took time.

What's your secret? How do you concentrate? Lately, I get through one page, and I don't remember what I read the next day (this, from an avid reader.)

It's just unbelievable. The lying is contrary to everything we learned as schoolchildren in the US about the importance of telling the truth. And these are "conservatives." What are they conserving?

So deeply, horribly Orwellian.

When you say "digital piece," do you mean you did it in PS, or with Wacom tablet/brush, or one of the other digital painting tools? I don't think you mean AI-generated.

What is it about birch trees, Birchman? I keep buying artwork of them - mostly in autumn. And when there's a storm, they collapse! Very mysterious trees.