Peanuts, by Charles Bukowski

Peanuts, by Charles Bukowski

He took a deep breath and a running start. He could see she was holding it tight. He was really going to kick the shit out of that old football! He threw his leg forward with all his might and Lucy yanked the football away just as he kicked at it. He landed on his ass again.

"AUUUGGGGHHH," he said again.

Lucy laughed and laughed and left with the football. Charlie laid there and groaned. Good grief, he thought. What a cunt.

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Heart and Torch: Rick Griffin’s Transcendence

Heart and Torch: Rick Griffin’s Transcendence

June 24 to September 30, 2007

Heart and Torch: Rick Griffin’s Transcendence, the artist’s first major retrospective and solo museum exhibition, opens on June 24, 2007. A cult figure that set the iconographic terrain for the 1960s and 1970s counterculture, in his art Griffin expressed idealism and hope along with a darker side that perfectly embodied the contradictions of the era with its mixture of hedonism, politics, and avant-garde expression.

The exhibition, which includes some 140 paintings, drawings, posters, album covers, and artifacts, surveys thirty years of Griffin’s work from the 1960s until his death in 1991. The accompanying 156-page catalogue, published in association with Gingko Press, is the first publication to address Griffin’s impact on the surf, psychedelic rock, and born-again Christian movements.

Sunday, June 24, 2007 - 1:00 p.m. Psychedelic Moment: The Big Five and Zap Comix in the 1960s

Griffin Lecture Series - This first panel on Griffin and San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury features the artist’s widow and internationally respected artists who initiated the psychedelic art and underground comix movements. With Ida Griffin, Alton Kelley, Stanley Mouse, Spain Rodriguez, and Robert Williams. Moderated by Jacaeber Kastor, founder of Psychedelic Solution Gallery, New York.

Related:
Read More» Laguna Art Musuem
Visit Griffin's MySpace site
Order Heart and Torch: Rick Griffin’s Transcendence
Rick Grifin: Wikipedia

(Rick Griffin | 1944-1991)

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Robert Crumb Retrospective

Robert Crumb retrospective curated by Todd Hignite just opened at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. It runs from March 16 to July 8, 2007. The show includes over 200 of the best examples of Crumb's art, spanning his prolific and rich lifetime body of work. [via]

NSFW
Here's 81 photos taken on the opening day.

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Fantagraphics now has a blog called, Flog.

Features all the greats: Dame Darcy, Daniel Clowes, R Crumb, Dave Cooper, Jim Woodring, and many more comix I've featured here on EBC over the years.

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Gary Baseman's art is currently showing at LaLuz deJesus Gallery in Seattle.

The Thief Of Baghdad
Americans paid Ahmad Chalabi to gull them [Americans] into a war that is costing them a billion a week — and a precious human cost. Cops dealing with their snitches check out the information better than the Bush administration did.

Introducing Sofie Crumb, author of "Belly Button Comix," and daughter of R.

Oprah's Birthday Greedfest - In all it's ostentatious glory.

Ashcroft Subpoenas Medical Records of Women Who Had Abortions - The Justice Department is demanding that at least six hospitals in New York City, Philadelphia, Ann Arbor and other cities turn over hundreds of patient medical records on certain abortions performed there. No matter what side of this issue you're on, you should be concerned that Ashcroft is going after private hospital records.

How Do I Love Thee? Let me count the ways. 13 Reasons why Firefox is better than IE.

Marriage is love.

[via: just another diva mom]

Nascar dads play race card.

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::Good morning all ye who swell, er dwell within....hope you enjoy your day.

::How about some lovely Dildo Art? View the American Gothic. NSFW (Not Safe For Work)

::Wigger Comix [via: stare]

::Act Now to Stop War and End Racism

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25:
International March
on Washington DC
MASS MARCH ON WASHINGTON TO SAY:
Bring the troops home now
End the occupation of Iraq
Money for jobs, education & healthcare - Not war


::Is this on anyone's list for Album of the Year? I don't think so.

Quote For Today
Love the earth and sun and animals,
Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,
Stand up for the stupid and crazy,
Devote your income and labor to others...
And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
~Walt Whitman

My thoughts are so terrible, they make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.

Looks like Enetation (comments) is holding up just fine. I may modify it some more and go with them entirely and take out the YACCS code, which btw is still coded in my template, and still not working. Fuckers.

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