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Monthly Archives: July 2008

St Petersburg Florida Keeps Us Safe From Degenerate Art. Praise Jesus.

July 29, 2008 – 11:20 am

My first action as regards this story yesterday was to blast it out to my Upper Left Coast media buddies so that they could heap further well-deserved abuse on the rubes of Florida and add to the merriment of the rest of the nation, who scorn us with unwavering scorn. As is appropriate. More grist [...]

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Greetings From Roser Park, Florida

July 29, 2008 – 9:57 am

At least 2 of the 101 Photos of Roser Park, St Petersburg have been used as references for paintings so far. As I have previously stated, by midsummer my use of color becomes deranged from the heat and I will not return to a reasonable palette until January. This is not really a choice. It [...]

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Room Temp Glass Doesn’t Flow, Even At Florida Temperatures

July 29, 2008 – 9:46 am

I was going to make some sort of observation about how I captured the flowing nature of glass, which technically a super-cooled liquid, but it turns out that the notion that “solid” glass continues to flow very slowly at normal temperatures is crap and in the category of such gee-whiz urban legends such as “we [...]

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Tampa Confederate Flag Antidote– Call to Artists

July 23, 2008 – 10:11 am

There is a pretty good argument to be made that in terms of numbers of deaths and long term social repercussions all over the globe, as well as the misery inflicted over many generations and hundreds of years on millions of people the peculiar institution over which the southern confederacy explicitly seceded was an even [...]

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Guantanamo Bay Prisoners Get Jobs In NE St Petersburg

July 23, 2008 – 8:21 am

The prison-industrial complex has spread into the Caribbean. I saw this sign on a lawn in Old Northeast neighborhood of St Petersburg, Florida. I have friends in the landscape maintenance business, and I feel this kind of competition is just unfair, although I will admit it does alleviate unemployment in the just-might-possibly-be-a-friend-of-a-terrorist’s-chauffeur’s-cousin sector.

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Plein Air Painter Peter Pettegrew Is My Pal

July 21, 2008 – 11:06 am

And he is a very skillful guy. Out of Orlando, but he is really an old surfer dude from Santa Cruz. His publisher is throwing fragments from his documentary film “Heart of a Landscape Painter” up on YouTube. Like everything on YouTube, it looks pretty blocked up, but at least you get the general idea [...]

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101 Photos of Roser Park, St Petersburg, Florida

July 19, 2008 – 9:30 pm

I wanted to do a painting of a Roser Park cityscape, so I biked down into the gulch Saturday morning. It wasn’t early, but there was no one in the park or on the street, not even a dog walker. Probably something to do with the gaspingly high humidity. Anyway, I managed to get some [...]

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Encouraging Words From A St Pete Plein Air Painter

July 17, 2008 – 11:44 am

Frankly, I had no idea that Robert Simone ever did a lousy painting; this piece appears to be a backhanded admission. So there may be hope for me yet.

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The St Petersburg Police: A Subtropical Noir View

July 15, 2008 – 11:19 am

The right time of day and atmospheric conditions can make anything look cool. The stretch of Central just north of Tropicana Field is kind of sparse and in need of infill to connect the Grand Central district with downtown St Pete, but at least it has a place to get drunk and a place to [...]

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Crescent Lake Park, St Petersburg, Florida

July 14, 2008 – 11:07 am

I’ve always said: if it ain’t within walking distance of Euclid / St Paul’s neighborhood, my mutt and I can live without it. Okay, I’ve never said that. But I might say that in the future, if I forget my brain tonic.
This is Crescent Lake Park in St Pete, which is within walking distance of [...]

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