"GOOD IDEAS ARE MAD"

Today's drawing is another by Michael as he continues to gather art world luminaries among his new pals. The very lucid painter Squeak Carnwath recently sent Michael a book bag (which he generously gave to his Mom) and her latest art monograph, PAINTING IS NO ORDINARY OBJECT. After perusing the book, Michael chose a favored image to draw, to wit:



And here is Michael's drawing:



What I love about Michael's drawing is how he changed the text on the Carnwath painting from

GOOD IDEAS R NOT MADE
THEY ARE STOLEN

to

GOOD IDEAS
THEY ARE MAD

or maybe that's GOOD IDEAS / THEY ARE MADE -- either way, it's a terrific if inadvertent riposte. I say "inadvertent" because, with his currently limited English knowledge, it may be that Michael is seeing words-as-visual-art as *purely* as anyone can. As I recall Charles Bernstein once saying somewhere, he found it difficult to look at words as visual art since he inevitably reads them as well (I paraphrase).

Anyway, here is the latest Relished W(h)ine List, affected by reading 13-year-old boy stuff and impacted by my ongoing fascination with life in the Pioneer West days...


CITY SLICKER'S SPRING/SUMMER GARDEN HARVEST (to date)
14 bunches of yellow table grapes (these table grapes have been around for about four years; they're finally releasing something edible)
9 bunch of red flame table grapes
33 red cherry tomatoes
164 golden cherry tomatoes
134 red heirloom tomatoes
13 yellow heirloom tomatoes
4 peaches
5 artichokes
120 green onion stalks
14 onions/scallions
87 strawberries
39 yellow squash
25 zucchini (2 the size of infants, 2 the size of canoes)
195 basil leaves
75 lemon cucumbers
26 cucumbers
25 pepper leaves
14 green bell peppers
11 jalapeno peppers
30 mint leaves
85 basil leaves
30 yellow squash leaves


PUBLICATIONS
BRIGHT EXISTENCE, poems by Brenda Hillman (I'm woefully late to Hillman's poems, which I'm finally starting to relish)

THE LONG LOST STARTLE, poems by Joel Toledo

GUARDIANS OF THE SECRET, poems by Lila Zemborain, Trans by Rosa Alcala (I read many poetry books and most of the time I read randomly. Entonces, most books I read are not those to which I'll tend to return. I find that I will always welcome returning to read poems by Lila Zemborain)

TERMINAL HUMMING, poems by K. Lorraine Graham

HEATHEN, poems by Lesley Wheeler

RAPTURE, poems by Susan Minot

THE SEVEN AGES, poems by Louise Gluck

THE ANGELS OF BREAD, poems by Martin Espada

WAITING FOR SWEET BETTY, poems by Clarence Major

HOW TO PAINT SUNLIGHT, NEW POEMS by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

UNSWEPT ROOMS, poems by Sharon Olds

PAINTING IS NO ORDINARY OBJECT, art monograph by Squeak Carnwath with essays by Karen Tsujimoto and John Yau

A BOY NAMED GIOTTO, children's book named Giotto by Paoli Guarneri with pictures by Bimba Landmann (this is a fabulous kid's book and also would be a great way to enhance a love for visual art)

MO AND JO: FIGHTING TOGETHER FOREVER, a "Toon Book" (I occasionally read what is checked out by Michael from the library)

INDIANA JONES AND THE SPEAR OF DESTINY (graphic novel; see above parenthetical)

FRANKENSTEIN: A GRAPHIC NOVEL (see above parenthetical)

LITTLE TOWN AT THE CROSSROADS, novel by Maria Wilkes

ON TOP OF CONCORD HILL, novel by Maria Wilkes

ACROSS THE ROLLING RIVER, novel by Maria Wilkes

LITTLE CITY BY THE LAKE, novel by Maria Wilkes

LITTLE CLEARING IN THE WOODS, novel by Maria Wilkes

LITTLE CITY BY THE LAKE, novel by Celia Wilkins


THE DESIRES OF HER HEART, novel by Lyn Cote


WINES
1994 Philip Togni cabernet NV
1995 Philip Togni cabernet NV
2006 Aubert chardonnay NV
2006 Dutch Henry chardonnay Los Carneros
2005 Travigne house cabernet
1997 Clarendon Hills Shiraz Brookman Vineyard
2003 Clare Luce Abbey Estate cabernet NV
2005 Stony Brooks Chardonnay
2003 Jones Family Vineyards cabernet
2006 Rombauer chardonnay